Posts Tagged ‘ painting ’
Michael Harvey, If you go down to the woods today, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 46” x 68.”
Michael Harvey, Skywriting, 2016. Oil on canvas, 50″ x 75″. Collection of the artist.
The Cyclops (detail), 1914, by Odilon Redon (1840–1916); Peter Horee/Alamy Stock Photo.
If we really wanted to kill the monster, we would give it what it wants.
Source: Monstering | Monsters | Issues | The Hedgehog Review
Lavinia Fontana, “Mars and Venus” (ca. 1595), oil on canvas, Madrid, Fundación Casa de Alba
At a time when women were seen as incapable of serious creative or intellectual activity, Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana gained international renown for their exceptional bodies of work.
Source: A Tale of Two Pioneering Women Painters in Renaissance Italy
While it is the convention to think of paint as a material that covers a surface, I think when it comes to Marden’s work, we might do well to think of it as a means to expose inchoate feelings marked by a tender sense of beauty and longing, and to document an extraordinarily resilient sensitivity to the thrumming pain, terror, and loneliness of being human. – John Yau
Acacia No. 2, oil on panel, 24 x 24 inches, 2017
HARTFORD OPEN STUDIO/ PACKER STUDIO #314
November 3 and 4
11-5pm
New Work on view!
Kathi Packer is a contemporary artist in Hartford, CT
detail Jesus and John post Restoration (Rabatti & Domingie)
The 21-foot canvas, created by self-taught artist and nun Plautilla Nelli, is now on view in Florence . . .