Pedro Almodóvar is not adverse to taking his audience to uncomfortable places. Often using comedy and melodrama, or his own unique mixture of the two, as...
The painting at the center of The Goldfinch is an example of trompe l’oeil, a flat painted surface that “tricks the eye” into believing it is...
Walter Pater, the late Victorian art theorist, famously said, “All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.” He was speaking of the condition where form and meaning are...