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What is non finito? The unfinished in art, from...
Non finito is Italian for "not finished": a work left deliberately incomplete. Where the idea comes from, how to recognise it, and how JoCa turns it on the face.
What is non finito? The unfinished in art, from...
Non finito is Italian for "not finished": a work left deliberately incomplete. Where the idea comes from, how to recognise it, and how JoCa turns it on the face.
How to Buy an Original JoCa Painting, Step by Step
How collecting an original JoCa works: unique oils on canvas from 27 × 20 cm to 150 × 150 cm, certificate, shipping, returns, and how to ask about a work.
How to Buy an Original JoCa Painting, Step by Step
How collecting an original JoCa works: unique oils on canvas from 27 × 20 cm to 150 × 150 cm, certificate, shipping, returns, and how to ask about a work.
JoCa's Bell Portraits: the Brontës' Pen Names
Why JoCa painted the Brontë sisters as Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell: the six Bell portraits, Catherine Earnshaw and Winter's Morning from Echoes of Haworth.
JoCa's Bell Portraits: the Brontës' Pen Names
Why JoCa painted the Brontë sisters as Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell: the six Bell portraits, Catherine Earnshaw and Winter's Morning from Echoes of Haworth.
How to look at a portrait whose face won't resolve
In JoCa's paintings the face is the one thing you're not given, and everything around it is painted with total attention. Five ways to look at the work: what survives,...
How to look at a portrait whose face won't resolve
In JoCa's paintings the face is the one thing you're not given, and everything around it is painted with total attention. Five ways to look at the work: what survives,...
Nuclear Seed: a metre and a half of interference
A hundred and fifty centimetres square. Red and blue interference runs straight through where the eyes should be, and the white collar beneath it stays perfectly still.
Nuclear Seed: a metre and a half of interference
A hundred and fifty centimetres square. Red and blue interference runs straight through where the eyes should be, and the white collar beneath it stays perfectly still.
The Dreamer: one gesture, painted nineteen times
The same head, tilted back, face swept away. Across the series the obliteration changes character — from a smear, to a cloud, to a hard horizontal glitch.
The Dreamer: one gesture, painted nineteen times
The same head, tilted back, face swept away. Across the series the obliteration changes character — from a smear, to a cloud, to a hard horizontal glitch.