Steven Walker is in search of a definition for the word “masterpiece” as it applies to fine art.
I think art is a personal experience that cannot be labeled by the keeper of the gate.
A masterpiece hinges on the artist’s pure interaction with the subject.
This seventeenth-century woman seems so completely connected with her surroundings and the present moment that a very ordinary scene begins to be elevated to a whole new level.
“For me the Metropolitan Museum of Art embodies a cross-pollination of cultures in symbiosis.”
In celebration of the Metropolitan Museum’s encyclopedic holdings, “Take Five” is a series of posts where artists describe the lessons that any five works in the collection have taught them about their craft or life as an artist.
Painter Sharon Sprung discusses the tools she uses to make art: a third-generation easel with a special pedigree, a transformed lithographers table, and an antique screen of oak panels.
Where and how we see art affects the quality of our experience. When we see art in a church that has been prayed in for centuries, something magical occurs, as if the art is spiritually alive.
Great paintings stimulate thoughts and feelings that take us beyond the four corners of the canvas and then they bring us back; we crave to see the image again and again, our responses only deepening with time.
The brush is used in service of the subject, beautifully descriptive and probing, capturing what is essential to the subject with an economy of means.