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May 17, 2026Open Access

Venetian Red and the Limits of Realism: Toward Structural Omission

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DSDeborah Scott

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Essay explores Venetian Red's historical use in art, revealing the limits of realism in a saturated visual era.

Key Points

  • The essay aims to explore Venetian Red's conceptual potential and its role in redefining realism through Structural Omission.
  • Traced the historical role of Venetian Red in Western painting from the Renaissance to modern artists.
  • Analyzed existing literature on iron-oxide pigments and their impact on image-making.
  • Developed the concept of Structural Omission as a response to the challenges of the Post-Certainty Era.
  • Repositioned Venetian Red as a strategic tool in art to highlight the limits of realism.
  • Demonstrated how Structural Omission underscores human uncertainty in representation.
  • Argued that contemporary art can use incompleteness as a strength against algorithmic visual cultures.

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Deborah Scott (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a095ba67880e6d24efe16b9https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20219567
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