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00:00This is the story of the brain of a forgotten visionary, a feisty, undervalued, driven,
00:11obsessive twentieth-century artist, painter, drawer, abstractor, and traveler, Wilhelmina
00:20Berns-Griem. Joy. Color as color. Texture as texture. Light, aggressive, delicate,
00:32or unexpected. A sudden glimpse into much deeper things. She had synesthesia,
00:41which helped her enormously in her art. She understood that she was special, that everything
00:49was about color and form and line. Some art critics praised her work, her way of seeing.
00:58Many told the story of twentieth-century British art without mentioning her.