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Ultimately, a lasting painting—literal or metaphorical—survives the weather of time because its vision is legible across contexts. Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1819) captures this endurance: simplicity of form, sustained by a lucid idea, speaks beyond an age. So the circle closes: clear vision gathers simple strokes into a structure the mind can repeatedly rediscover. What is clear endures; what endures clarifies us in return. [...]
Created on: 9/1/2025
