Article
Article · Oil Painters of America
The Power of Metaphor, Mystery, and Memory in Painting
By Stephanie Deshpande
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2021
About this lesson
A working painter explains three ways she builds meaning into representational paintings: using visual symbols like a snake to stand in for an emotion a face can't show, letting unexplained/mysterious elements emerge from personal subject matter, and drawing on private memory for authenticity without narrating it literally.
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