Posts Tagged ‘ painting ’

Rose Wylie: Which One | David Zwirner

Source: Rose Wylie: Which One | David Zwirner

Stains Remain: Works by Michael Harvey

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.

Source: Stains Remain: Works by Michael Harvey

Monstering | Monsters | Issues | The Hedgehog Review

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

The Sublime Farewell of Gerhard Richter, Master of Doubt – The New York Times

Credit…Museum Ludwig

 

Credit…Charlie Rubin for The New York Times

 

Credit…Charlie Rubin for The New York Times

Ariana Reines – “The Artist’s Studio” by Gustave Courbet – YouTube

A Tale of Two Pioneering Women Painters in Renaissance Italy

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

Brice Marden’s Latest Breakthrough


Brice Marden, “March” (2018 – 2019), oil on linen, 72 x 120 x 2 1/2 inches, © 2019 Brice Marden/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, photo: Rob McKeever (courtesy Gagosian)

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

Source: Brice Marden’s Latest Breakthrough

A Multi-faceted Look at Francis Bacon’s Psychology


Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology
book cover (all images courtesy the Estate of Francis Bacon)

The five essays in Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology call us to grapple with an artist whose life and work were anything but simple.

Source: A Multi-faceted Look at Francis Bacon’s Psychology

Kathi Packer – contemporary art, animal imagery, landscapes

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

Source: contemporary art, animal imagery, landscapes

Renaissance Nun’s ‘Last Supper’ Painting Makes Public Debut After 450 Years in Hiding | Smart News | Smithsonian

 

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 . . .

Source: Renaissance Nun’s ‘Last Supper’ Painting Makes Public Debut After 450 Years in Hiding | Smart News | Smithsonian