The exhibition title is a quotation from the artist Walter Sickert, whose beautiful study of a woman from 1906, her forehead patterned like a diamond, is the earliest work on view. (highlanes.ie)
«It's a very beautiful study with surprising results,» says Leo Blitz of the University of California, Berkeley, an astronomer who was not part of the project. (sciencemag.org)
For instance, her early mimetically painted images of flowers and birds, framed by penciled grids, paint swatches, and tonal scales, struck me as an incisively beautiful study of the contradiction between image making and the physical reality of paint. (brooklynrail.org)