“Only Art controls Time. It can freeze it, pin its moment, accelerate
it, ignore it, invent and re-invent it, spin it over, under, sideways,
down. Consequently (imagination being truer than fact), our artists have
become our best recorders of all our worlds. Time and Place are
conjoined and frozen in the fullness of their reportage; we see how it
was There and Then—in the house in Delft, where Vermeer’s girl reads her
letter, or in the early twentieth-century Byleorussian village which
Chagall showed from his most credible point of view, of the couple
flying above it. The most touching are particular to their time and
their place.”
The Public Domain Review highlights the work of Eric Ravilious.
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