Weiss on Painting a Spectacular Subject

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“How does one paint autumn?” asks Jerry N. Weiss in “Autumn’s Lament & License,” forthcoming in the November 2014 issue of the Artist’s Magazine (PDF preview here[1]). The difficulty, he suggests, lies in “painting a spectacular subject, without the painting itself suffering the unfortunate consequences of clashing colors.” The article offers several insights that Weiss calls “principles of unity.”