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Cracked Surface
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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.
- .
- 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.
- .
- 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
- .
Is this like the wabi-sabi of
Is this like the wabi-sabi of the Japanese aesthetic of beauty?
Starward
Detroit's DIA
Galleries of Dutch Masters.
~A~