What is it saying about the act of painting itself?
How does the artist use color to keep you looking at the picture?
What story is being told here? What is happening?
Think about these questions as you look:
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Today, we bring you another focus challenge , in which we invite you to spend uninterrupted time looking at a piece of art. This one, called “Untitled (Studio),” was painted by the American Kerry James Marshall in 2014. In real life, it is nearly 10 feet wide.
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More than 60 of Kerry James Marshall’s paintings are on view through January at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. “If one spends the time and looks at the work closely enough, there’s nothing that’s not available,” he told my colleague Aruna D’Souza for a recent article about his show.
Let’s take his advice on the one you just saw.
Mr. Marshall is a modern master — called “one of the great history painters of our time” in 2016 by The New York Times’s chief art critic Holland Cotter — known for painting Bla
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