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.
I enjoy engaging thoughts of the creative mind, irrespective of the field.
As I thought about which books are most important to me and my development as an artist, it gradually dawned on me that it would not be a reading list.
We carry on conversations with great books over the years, and as we change, the works change with us. A must-have list of ten books for artists.
A list of one hundred insights gleaned from a career training artists…
While researching material for A History of Art: A Timeline of the Art Students League of New York, I became curious about instructional art books written by artists who taught or lectured at the school over the past 138 years. How well could written language encapsulate the visual principles, techniques, and materials that art students observed…