In looking back in a rear-view mirror, the stature of some painters may appear larger than is actually warranted. Renato Guttuso (1911-1987) was an Italian expressionist painter who was admired and revered in Italy but had little resonance or visibility in North America. A multi-million dollar treasure trove of art was forfeited to Italian authorities [...]
The eccentricity of Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali is unquestionable. However Dali’s articualtion of what he termed ”The Paranoiac Critical Method” was a coherent theory and discovery of an artistic sensitivity not previously elucidated. Surrealists like Dali effectively challenged the mechanistic rationalism that was ingrained in the political, business and academic classes of the early 20 [...]
Salvador Dali on Vermeer’s ”The Lacemaker”: ”Up until now The Lacemaker has always been considered a very peaceful, very calm painting, but for me it is possessed by the most violent aesthetic power, to which only the recently discovered antiproton can be compared.” This is a bit unsettling, since Vermeer painted women with few exclusions. [...]
Johannes Vermeer, is a Dutch master, whose mystique is enhanced by the near inexistant , obscure and fragmentary knowledge available. He is an invisible artist who remains unseen. Vermeer (1632-1675) was a baroque Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of a cross section of seventeenth century Dutch society.His greatness is considered to be [...]
The idea behind gesture drawing is to suggest the essential feeling of a subject . You skirt the issue to arrive at an interpretation. The person is drawing not what the object under study actually looks like, but what the subject is doing. A summation in a few marks in a gestural fashion generally either [...]
”Raising The Flag On Iwo Jima” is one of the most reproduced photos of all time. It is is a perfect photo partly because it touches so many people and leaves few indifferent towards it. It was taken by an Associated Press war photographer who was declared 4F for military service because his eyesight was [...]
Edith Wharton was an American novelist, short story writer, landscape Architect and Interior designer who lived from 1862-1937. She is the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature for her novel ”The Age of Innocence” in 1920. Wharton was a prolific writer who has left an accomplished treasury of work, including 40 books. She [...]
Symbolically and historically , fish have held similar interpretations to different cultures. Its watery domain is sometimes understood to be a symbol of the subconscious and depths of knowledge in addition to a feminine mystery and the unknown. In the pre-Christian era the fish represented goddesses , sexuality and fertility. In Egyptian mythology fish were [...]
A twenty- one year old history major from North Carolina is the creator of an original ten foot sculpture from recycled traffic barrels and has earned himself national attention and the moniker , the “Traffic Barrel Monster’‘ after his metal creation. The street artist, Joesph Carnevale, constructed the hitchhiking statue in 90 minutes using the [...]
Cal Schenkel is a designer and artist who first came to attention as the creator of Frank Zappa’s record album covers in the late 1960′s. He is referred to as Frank Zappa’s art engineer and was given responsibility to develop the external vision of the Zappa universe. The album covers were almost as important as [...]
