Frank Auerbach: The Artist That Could Only Love Through Paint

Frank Auerbach's retrospective at Tate Britain is, as expected, spectacular but made me think about how difficult it is for art institutions (museums and curators, in particular) to allow love, understood as that which motivates, on one side, artists to manipulate pigments to convey someone's presence and, on the other side, a sitter to sit for an artist. I guess uber professionalisation is to blame for this unawareness of what motivates artists to make art. In Auerbach's case this issue is para...