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Old 03-14-2007, 12:24 PM   #1
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To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced and having evoked it in oneself then by means of movements, lines, colours, sounds or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that others experience the same feeling-this is the activity of art.

Leo Tolstoy - "What is Art"
This seems to apply here...

It is a shame that reproductions of paintings can not capture the impasto brush works. I am reading about the work of Ilya Repin and apparently he too was a great fan of Velasquez, because of the way Velasquez was able to manipulate lots of paint. Apparently Repin has works that close up are not recognizable due to the heavy brushwork, yet from afar seem to be extremely detailed paintings. Looking at the reproductions in this book you would never guess that.

Thanks for answering a curious minded person's question!
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