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  • Enigmatic as an impossible figure,
  • the Dutch Masters mixed their own
  • oils to insure just the correct break
  • in the canvas over time. Like little
  • road maps back in time, a cracked
  • surface validates age and enhances
  • aesthetic.
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  • The idea of beauty is smooth faced. 
  • Art makes the hands of the potter wet;
  • clayed with the hope that no cracking
  • will be the end after the thrown clay 
  • bakes.
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  • We appreciate a cracked surface
  • after so many hard weathered years
  • in and out of kilns that seared us by
  • degrees.
  • .
  • We call them wrinkles but they
  • are another kind of cracked surface
  • that mirrors a well-conditioned age
  • lined canvas.
  • .
  • Lady A
  • 03-21-17
  • 819a
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last updated 12 April 2022 - 1:53pm
©12 April 2022 - 11:13am — allets
12 April 2022 - 1:07pm — J-9thxciv
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Is this like the wabi-sabi of

Is this like the wabi-sabi of the Japanese aesthetic of beauty?

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12 April 2022 - 1:55pm — allets
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Detroit's DIA

Galleries of Dutch Masters. 
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