Why have appeals to ‘expression’ or individual ‘feeling’ in art often been so abstract ie conjuring up an anonymous figure of ‘the artist’? Why do politics or specific lives need to be flattened out or pushed aside in order to preserve ‘aesthetics’ or ‘beauty’? Discuss these questions making reference to different ways of discussing painting that we covered in the seminar, and in relation to contemporary practice using as an example the work of Felipe Baeza and Rochelle Feinstein.