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Stanley Spencer: Through the Birds’ Window
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Alex Cohen muses on Stanley Spencer's painting The Builders, 1935. Cohen writes: "Spencer was a master at elevating ordinary acts into deeply emotive and even divine experiences. By letting his compassion for ordinariness spill from masonry to the secret lives of birds he expanded the idea of home. Illustrating the bird’s perspective alongside the builders […]
Alex Cohen: Framing & First Person Narrative
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Matthew Farina interviews painter Alex Cohen about his work. Cohen discusses working in a rural setting, nostalgia in painting, framing (Cohen makes his own), and his interest in first person narrative paintings: "The first person point of view gives the sense of the painting as an experience rather than captured scene."