Was Kokoschka's art too emotionally charged?
Some found my work unsettling, perhaps because I did not shy away from depicting the raw, often turbulent, aspects of human emotion and psychology. My aim was not to please or to create superficial beauty, but to reveal the truth of experience, which is often complex and fraught. If art is to be meaningful, it must engage with the full spectrum of human feeling, the light and the shadow. To be less than that would be a betrayal of my vision.
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