London 2006
Hellmut Wohl,
Emeritus Professor of Art History at Boston University
The drawings of João de Almeida correspond to and are faithful to
what Ortega y Gasset characterizes as the “age-old habit” of
thinking of things, or, we might interpolate, the world around us as
“solid enough to offer resistance to our hands”. In this way
they offer a subjective visual experience of intimacy and immediacy of the
cliffs that the artist traverses with what Ortega calls the “mysterious
resonance of touch preserved by sight”.
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