#but in a museum setting you're centimeters away from these canvases larger than yourself and the paint is so THICK and layered and luminous
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that adriana varejão post is great obv but missing her incredible paintings of details from baroque churches but also seeing them through a screen really cannot capture the feeling, and they seem harder to find online? i didn't even know about them until i saw them in person last year. i love her work so much
cristo, 1988. oil on canvas, 180 x 220 cm
#i adore her meat work too but these were really surprising and i cannot overstate how important the scale and texture are#like i've seen a fair share of baroque churches (especifically in ouro preto / some other mg cities so the same she was inspired by (!) )#and you end up seeing these paintings from afar yknow#but in a museum setting you're centimeters away from these canvases larger than yourself and the paint is so THICK and layered and luminous#unreal. unreal. really fucking good exhibition. i bought the catalogue but it's not enough i needed to have eaten everything#my mom used to hate her work and changed her mind on the spot so like that's the power of seeing huge fucking art pieces in person#art
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