If you haven't yet seen Paint Made Flesh at The Phillips, get over there. It is powerful. I think I could sit in front of any given piece for hours...
One piece I want to mention is We Have to Eat, by Puerto Rican artist Arnaldo Roche-Rabell. The large canvas depicts a man from the shoulders up. The surface is activated by all-over slashes into the paint, creating a relief. While viewing it, I realized the slashes were playing a symphony of hundreds of metal scissors opening and closing in my head! It's amazing what responses one can have to visual art!
Which brings me to my questions: Have you seen Paint Made Flesh? What were some of your responses to the paintings?
If you've had other marked responses to art, what was the art and what was your response to it?
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