It is, after all, just a simple bit of paint: one more arcane marking in an urban landscape filled with street art and random splashings; a small-caliber mystery in a big city rich with secrets.
His landscapes are complex and arcane in technique.
Barnes points to the work of Zwelethu Mthethwa, who has created photographic paintings "of the scale and compositional quality of Gainsborough" by posing young male participants in the arcane Shembe religious ritual against KwaZulu-Natal's lush landscape.
But while painting itself may be arcane, this show suggests that a great deal of contemporary landscape painting is nonetheless timely and relevant.
You think it's a small country, sure, because you only travel through the habitable bits, and don't often see the massive wodges of fields that are entombed behind arcane planning legislation that doesn't allow for someone to build a Westfield and a Barrat Landscaped Village on them.
Sellers with a good-faith belief in their ownership rights enter a landscape in which ethics and regulations are evolving, governments are increasingly assertive, and lawyers versed in arcane statutes are as necessary as jungle guides.
The dispute may seem arcane.
An arcane one: 37signals.
