Windows in the Art Garden
What is it about women and windows?
The paintings are mostly by male artists, like Edward Hopper.
Or Andrew Wyeth.
Or Richard Diebenkorn.
Or Odo Dobrowolski and hundreds more.
There is lingering trauma here. You can feel it. The women are isolated—emotionally as well as physically. What are they looking at? Or looking for? Maybe nothing. Maybe these are windows into their own hearts. Souls? But why are male painters intent on capturing women immersed in seeming isolation? Is this lingering trauma also felt by the men painters? Are they projecting their stifled pain…pain that they as men can’t express? Just wondering. Maybe the only way they can explain that is through art.
PTSD is felt by both men and women—maybe in different ways. But art is an exclusive human expression—not just to express pain but to find understanding. It is the way to spiritualism.