New Video by John Thornton about Vincent Desiderio
from Jan. 3 2020
Vincent Desiderio is one of the world’s greatest painters. His current show at New York’s Marlborough Gallery features a number of small works plus one very large one. “Dead White” projects astonishing emotional power. It is both a warning and an indictment. A vision of hell, it is informed by the artist’s relentless study of history, philosophy, and culture. To fully embrace it, one must accept, in Rilke’s words, both its beauty and its terror.
Painting Perceptions was started in 2009 by Larry Groff to promote the ideas, practice and experience of painters working from observation in a modernist vein from around the world through interviews, essays, videos and community. It later evolved to include imagination-based and abstract painting as well.
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