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limner (lĭm`nər), the work of untrained, generally anonymous artists active in the English American colonies. Characteristic examples of their paintings show flat, awkward, often frontal figures in richly detailed costumes and landscape settings copied from European prints. The limner tradition extended well into the 19th cent. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As they have seen it as a witness, both through my own lenses and the borrowed lenses of the photographers and limners of other times and places have seen it--Soldago and Evans, Goya and Bosch, Breughel and Witkin. It is this blunt presentation that helps to explain his special fondness for the unadorned style of the self-taught limners of the last century, which he admires for its "flat-footed directness. Too many limners (and readers and exegetes) of Holy Writ have shied away from the violence and difficulties of the real text and instead of wrestling with the terrible and eternal verities that are within its pages, have fed us "Bible Lite. |
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