Ivan Aivazovsk, The Wave, 1889
Aivazovsky refused to paint real waves on site, claiming nature moved too fast.
He just watched the water, turned his back, and painted the entire storm from memory.
It’s art history's best paradox: the most chaotic storm in Russian art was born in absolute stillness.
The exact opposite of most Impressionists. There are many paths in art...
@Kish_P14 I think he meant it was going to be a more physical game or 'english game' at an 'english stadium'; that's what he meant. So I get it and kind of agree with him; Fernandes is a physical player, but maybe Gallagher's speed and bustle are what he wanted.
Adorno: “To think dialectically is not to confront one proposition of whatever kind with some other contrary opinion from outside. Rather, it’s to drive thought to the point where it comes to recognize its own finitude, its own falsehood, and is thereby also driven beyond itself”