Joseph Peller’s recent travels through China, Japan, and Italy have yielded some great new work.
The Morgan show offers a reason to stop and admire different virtues, from a time when piety and painting were synonymous, and portraiture was undertaken with the intensity of a newfound love.
I think the creative act is very different than the ability to perform a skill set. I think that individual choice is as distinctive as the human being who makes those choices.
Leaving the Four Arts and the art of a near-distant past, one is struck by how quickly what was once novel is now accepted in staid surroundings, though rarely quickly enough for the artists themselves to reap material benefit.
Blakelock fought with his paint until his images magically evolved into the mystical, musical nocturnes of silence he sought.
The show at Galerie St. Etienne is a less than subtle reminder that the same issues which drew moral outrage in the last century—labor unrest, economic disparity, political corruption, the cloud of nuclear war—are very much with us.
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Naomi Campbell Honored by Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club
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The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club has elected Naomi Campbell as Honored Member of 2016.
Guido Cagnacci’s signature theme was the half-length female nude, which satisfied the three standard criteria of such artworks: a narrative foundation, showmanship of technical prowess, and an erotic hook.
News on a viewing of Reginato’s recent work and a museum acquisition
Richard Barnet’s watercolors now on view at the College of Mount Saint Vincent
An award from Allied Artists of America and group exhibition in New Jersey
Fairfield Porter painted images of a leisurely life on Long Island and in Maine when abstract expressionism was ascendant, and in that zeitgeist the idea of an American artist chronicling a trouble-free suburban environment would easily be taken for dilettantism.