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THE NEW HORIZON: PAINTINGS BY THOMAS FRONTINI

THE NEW HORIZON: PAINTINGS BY THOMAS FRONTINI

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Nov 06, 2011
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Pink Sky~North Shore c. 2050 (The Lessons of Rapa Nui), 45 x 56 in., Oil on Panel, 2007

If the need is pressing and the world is not forthcoming, then vision will dictate how the object of desire can be created (James Elkins, The Object Stares Back, pp 30-1).

A picture is not only a view onto the world, or onto someone’s imagination: it is a peculiar k…

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