Art Beyond the Visible
‘Objects as appearances’, crucial yet oddly overlooked. are images of the inner world, of the unseen; these unseen phenomena, ranging from harpies and midnight hags to seraphs, paradise’s milken hills, and the sensations of anguish, bliss or ecstasy, have been visualised by artists and communicated so effectively that the conventions they use and adapt have themselves become invisible: nobody, except perhaps a child seeing a baroque angel for the first time, finds it strange that a naked boy could hurl himself sotto-in-su from heaven’s ceiling on swansdown wings.
© Texts, Marina Warner 1996
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