April 2012
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Regarding Baudelaire’s ‘The Painter of Modern...
I was discussing this project with a friend recently and he asked me if I had ever read Charles Baudelaire’s essay ‘The Painter of Modern Life’. Though Baudelaire’s book of poems ‘Les Fleurs de Mal’ (‘The Flowers of Evil’) had had a profound effect on me as a teenager (and on my partly symbolist inspired painting that was beginning to evolve at that time), and though I had long known...
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