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Velazquez gathers the superlatives of art historians, museum directors and connoisseurs. His history is available widely and shall not be examined here. What I am after is his technique and style of painting. For many years I have painted in the manner of a particular artist in order to understand what his or her art … Continue reading
The famous Cardinal Albani commissioned Anton Raphael Mengs to paint the Parnassus Ceiling for the Villa Albani in Rome. The Villa Albani, not particularly suited as a permanent residence or for hosting guests, was a showcase for Cardinal Albani’s rich and extensive collection of classical antiquities. Albani dealt in buying and selling ancient objects from Rome and Greece, and along … Continue reading
[1]The artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is hard to classify. We think of Hopper as a modern painter. However, he continues a trend in American painting going back to William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri. In fact, Hopper was a student of both these artists and followed their influence in depicting American life with realism. (Perhaps … Continue reading
In case you don’t remember the old Whitney Museum, it was a structure designed by Marcel Breuer working with Hamilton Smith, completed in 1966. It is a strong, modernist building which fits the definition of Brutalism. Brutalist architecture shuns the strictures of the International Style and other tenets of modernist movements with boxy, blocks of concrete and … Continue reading
Originally posted on Dafta's VIEW:
Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi Istvan Sandorfi was born in 1948 in Budapest, Hungary. Since the age of ten he lived in Paris, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs. Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi Paintings by István (Étienne) Sándorfi Sandorfi’s painting…
Take two pills and call me in the morning. Instructions from a doctor or pharmacist or the musings of an artist? No prescription exists that can sweeten the labor of painting. Indeed, it is work, regardless of the satisfaction derived from the process and the final outcome. Painting has steps. Those steps, when deliberate and … Continue reading
Originally posted on Angus Carroll's Blog:
Few people are as famous as Leonardo da Vinci. His paintings have become icons of civilization, his notebooks the quintessential expression of the creative and scientific mind. He is who we mean when we say ‘Renaissance Man.’ But he had a fatal flaw. For all his artistic and inventive…
Artemisa Gentileschi was born into an artistic family in 1593. Her father, Orazio Gentileschi (1563 – 1639), was an accomplished painter who worked to decorate many major churches in Italy. His influence and training of Artemisia greatly determined her artistic direction. Yet Orazio, a follower of Caravaggio, spread his influence to Artemisia, and … Continue reading
When doing an Internet search for “Andy Warhol” the resultant list is most likely to include many images of the artist himself. Much like Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol (1928-87) was addicted to media attention, even if that attention required perverse or bizarre behavior. This is a pattern followed today of the insane, stupid (or combination … Continue reading
Mannerism and A Clockwork Orange Film is unique among the arts. Compared with the lyrical cave paintings of Lascaux or Altamira, film was invented only yesterday, its influences are those entirely of modernity. More significantly, the art of film-making is not the exclusive province of artisans employed by aristocracy, but the domain of artistic republicanism, relying on the … Continue reading
Howard Bosler Artist 