Perhaps some styles of painting are more sensitive to cropping than others -- with Hofmann's at one extreme -- since the rectangular edges of his canvases are repeatedly echoed by the rectangles painted within them.
William suggests that some special visual skill is necessary to discern the differences (he's got it -- I don't)-- but there's no need to speculate about that skill -- it can be tested! It could one more exercise in my "Miller test" for aesthetic discernment: *take the jpg image of a painting and use various computer tools to expand and shrink it's borders -- then ask the viewer to identify the original from 5 or 6 alternatives. ____________________________________________________________ Click here to save cash and find low rates on auto loans. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/Ioyw6ijmyuWlfQnjGLi8y3EMsfH4am fBOoKjO31p722G9RXrRP3s7S/
