Marcel Duchamp Stripped Bare: A Journey through the Existential Process
(Marcel Duchamp with The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even. Photograph: Mark Kauffman/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image) “The spectator
Each Dewdrop on the Grass Reflects the Vastness of Moonlight – The Nature of Japanese Art, Part One
Images and text are best viewed on a wide screen. ◊ The art of seeing: two paintings of wisteria were made less than twenty years apart, one in America, the other in Japan. Lush and abundant, if you could pull the clustered blooms closer, it would require both hands. The scent, having been […]
Is Man, by Nature, a Violent Being? (A Philosophical Look at Cy Twombly’s 50 Days of Iliam)
Is man, by nature, a violent being? Is he genetically coded towards violence and aggression? Is his drive towards aggression
Unveiling the Work of a Master – Titian’s Portrait of Archbishop Archinto
Images and text are best viewed on a wide screen. ◊ His contemporaries called him “the sun amidst small stars”, the
I tell my heart to go ahead – Artist Horace Pippin
Horace Pippin painted the memories that lingered. Some were terrifyingly painful. Others recalled the ease of a lazy Sunday morning breakfast. Of his approximately 130 works, the Philadelphia Museum of Art owns several, which include his first and his last paintings. It’s not a typical story: Pippin had no formal art training and created his […]
To Have and To Hold – Italian Renaissance Cassoni
Images and text are best viewed on a wide screen. ◊ Here I am baby Oh, you’ve got
Alone, Quiet, and Gloriously Free – Matisse’s Portrait of Mlle. Yvonne Landsberg
Images and text are best viewed on a wide screen. ◊ Henri Matisse’s painting of Mlle. Yvonne Landsberg is considered
