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"Time is the dictator of style"?
Gee and I thought it was the artist.
The only useful references to time about art, as far as I can see are, not enough time, timeless and forgotton by time. The latter I am afraid is a fate many of us will share. I have seen artwork that has taken a year to do, would it be any less exquisite because of the care the painter put into it. I don't think Vermeer, Botticelli, Ingres, Velasquez, Da Vinci, Goya, Rubens, Rembrant, Michealangelo to name a few, put a timer up to judge their accomplishments. I doubt that they just whipped them out. It looks like they savoured and delighted in the process of painting them.
Beginners often mistake speed for mastery. It is instead, the artist's total conciousness in every stroke, fast or slow that makes a work of art, not simply facile brushwork.
Sincerely,
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