How can I make representations of things I don't feel?
They say smiling will eventually make you happy and frowning will get you down.
Most artists learn methods, skills, strategies and such to represent how they feel or what they think -
Actors are admired who can represent; appear even to feel; emotions they have no reason to be going through.
At the same time, noone seems to think it unworthy when Picasso's blue period is unpunctuated by rose or amber paintings.
We read Van Gogh's paintings as representing the powerful emotions of the man at the time of painting.
Wouldn't this make them unavoidably type cast actors?
Is it lower or higher then to be able or to even attempt to reach emotions in art which are alien to the artist at the time of creation?
Are method actors the greatest liars?
An author can surely dig through not only his own experience but also that of those he has known to create convincing fiction with realistic characters – going backward in time and even trying to move laterally into other people to convincingly represent a full range of emotions and ideas.
Not something painters are known for or expected to master these days.
Is it simply impossible for the gesture to lie or are painters in our time simply not trying hard enough?
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