Divining the Human: The Art of Alexander Newley Newley Alexander
Divining the Human: The Art of Alexander Newley Newley Alexander An illustrated memoir by a master of portraiture.Spanning the worlds of portraiture, landscape, the nude, abstraction, and still life,…
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Divining the Human: The Art of Alexander Newley Newley Alexander
An illustrated memoir by a master of portraiture.Spanning the worlds of portraiture, landscape, the nude, abstraction, and still life, Alexander Newley's project fuses the fine art traditions of patient observation and draftsmanship with transcendental intuitions of the mystic. As such, all art is essentially religious, even when it shows us the ugliness of a fallen world."Perhaps no contemporary portraitist has more completely captured the inner life of his subjects--or told us more about the fascinating intersection of the observable and invisible worlds--than Alexander Newley. "For me, art is a moral activity," he says, "a straining after the highest virtue of beauty and enlarged consciousness.
Whether his subject is a city street, a painter's table, a child's face, or a matrix of abstract forms, there is a unifying and revelatory logic to his perception that is