Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@catiamalinina @TheaEuryphaessa On the realism front, I felt mixed, frankly, sharing my smartphone treatment of Denner's 'Portrait einer alten Frau.' The alchemy absurdly simple (a button) where the effect (complex, the wherefores) landed as truly profound. Had I appropriated holiness with a fast, easy trick?

Copy of two tweet thread Lifelong RedNumber3Fan · and Oddly, this animation makes me think of a professor I had in an art appreciation course who might have asked, "Where is the line between brilliance and mere cleverness in art?" Nick Routledge · and Not odd at all! I sincerely resonate - a vague impression of a kind of cheap enchantment implicit to the gesture, eh? Certainly, an ambivalence I weighed. In my defense, the semiotic trickery was driven by the larger purpose of the thread narrative. Its truer beauty, its context.
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Copy of two tweet thread Lifelong RedNumber3Fan · and Oddly, this animation makes me think of a professor I had in an art appreciation course who might have asked, "Where is the line between brilliance and mere cleverness in art?" Nick Routledge · and Not odd at all! I sincerely resonate - a vague impression of a kind of cheap enchantment implicit to the gesture, eh? Certainly, an ambivalence I weighed. In my defense, the semiotic trickery was driven by the larger purpose of the thread narrative. Its truer beauty, its context.