Divining the Human: The Art of Alexander Newley
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An illustrated memoir by a master of portraiture.
Spanning the worlds of portraiture, landscape, the nude, abstraction, and still life, Alexander Newley’s project fuses the fine art traditions of patient observation and draftsmanship with transcendental intuitions of the mystic. “For me, art is a moral activity,” he says, “a straining after the highest virtue of beauty and enlarged consciousness. As such, all art is essentially religious, even when it shows us the ugliness of a fallen worl...
Spanning the worlds of portraiture, landscape, the nude, abstraction, and still life, Alexander Newley’s project fuses the fine art traditions of patient observation and draftsmanship with transcendental intuitions of the mystic. “For me, art is a moral activity,” he says, “a straining after the highest virtue of beauty and enlarged consciousness. As such, all art is essentially religious, even when it shows us the ugliness of a fallen worl...


