If a Painting Is Like a Window, Is It a Means of Ventilation?

TENIERS, David, the Younger, 1610-1690; BROUWER, Adriaen, 1605 or 1606-1638; MORISOT, Berthe, 1841-1895

The article traces the history of the Western easel painting's attempts to breathe—to be open to the world that surrounds it against histories of the air's shaping of nationalist, gendered ideologies of subjecthood. It mentions about the absence of the ability to bring art and life together, painting was threatened with suffocation.