Quotation of the Week #5
Matisse, Moroccan Café (1912-13)
‘…the symbolical creations of geniuses are unfortunately harder to nail down to a definite subject than the allegorical inventions of minor artists.’
Erwin Panofsky, art historian (1892-1968)1
1. Panofsky, Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance, orig. publ.1939 (New York: Harper & Row) 1962, p. 228
Posted 04 Nov 2011: TheoryVisual Perception
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