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Where does emotion go when an artist refuses to show it?
Behind the quiet interiors and solitary women of Gwen John’s paintings was a life of extraordinary emotional intensity. In our latest article, Jo Vickery visits Strange Beauties at the National Galleries of Scotland and asks whether that turbulence is really absent from the paintings — or simply transformed into restraint, repetition and an almost meditative concentration.
Read Gwen John – The Discipline of Emotion at Vickery.art.
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