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Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall …

Beautiful people are everywhere—not just on television and magazine covers.

Challenge mainstream notions of beauty on Turn Beauty Inside Out Day. Honor people whose actions, energy, and attitudes illustrate your vision of inner beauty—a much more important asset than good looks!

The Spectral Attitudes by abstract artist Gerome Kamrowski depicts his alternate, surrealist aesthetic. Kamrowski was interested in the energy generated by the act of painting. He believed his work to be "essentially process, instead of representing a high, spiritual state which nonobjective art aspires to."

Source: Virginia M. Mecklenburg. The Patricia and Phillip Frost Collection: American Abstraction 1930–1945 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1989).

Pictured: Gerome Kamrowski, born 1914, The Spectral Attitudes, 1941, oil, 35 x 30 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Patricia and Phillip Frost.