Many of these posts concern the way in which we apprehend and appreciate art: emotionally – where the pre-cognitive response to the work is the measure of it's success vs. intellectually – where one must provide a context and establish a basis for it's inclusion in the pantheon of "art."
We favor the former and came across an essay about painter Georgia O'Keefe, whose work we've long been a fan of, which included this observation of hers:
I’m one of the few artists, maybe the only one today, who is willing to talk about my work as pretty,” she once said. “I don’t mind it being pretty.
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