How Painting Happens (and Why it Matters) New Age & Spirituality Build the frame

Build the frame

haunting quality of a prose poem

From the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy

and educated at Eton and Merton College

How Painting Happens (and Why it Matters) New Age & Spirituality Build the frameDrawing on decades of conversations with practicing artists, Martin Gayford offers intimate insight into the practice, meaning, and potential of painting. Painting is an almost inconceivably ancient activity that remains vigorously alive in the twenty first century. Every successful painting creates a new world, which we inhabit for as long as we care to look at it. Paintings can incorporate profound ideas and paradoxes that can be grasped without