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Creative Briefs
Liz Hager
Artist
Creative Briefs is a collection of ideas and creative work that inspire me and inform my painting practice.
Shedding the Props of Painting
How adverse situation led to breakthrough in painting practice.
Jacob Lawrence: The Power of Pictorial Narrative
"I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro. I didn't [paint] just as a historical thing, but because I believe...
Birthday Observances: Agnes Pelton
"Discovering" an accomplished artist who marches to a beat so outside the acceptable songs of his or her time can be refreshing. In retrospect, when civilization has caught up, the artist often seems to have been prophetic. The Age of Aquarius has familiarized us with...
From Mughals to Minis: The Enduring Paisley Motif
Very few design motifs have withstood the vicissitudes of fashion as well as paisley. It's incredibly versatile—cacophonous and ebullient elements can be channeled into a sophisticated all-over pattern or individual "pine cones" can be released on their own...
The Painted I: Jan Van Eyck
Art may commemorate the sitter, but may also change him, even cancel him, despite the wishes of both parties. . . when high talent, let along genius comes in, the painter is preparing an image which will represent the sitter after death, and thus in some way replace...
Birthday Observances: Giacomo Balla
Best known as a member of the Italian Futurist movement, Giacomo Balla—painter, sculptor, and set designer—was born on this day (July 18) in 1871 in Turin, Italy. Balla had little formal art training. In 1895, while still in his early 20s, the painter left Turin to...
Othon Friesz’ Chromatic Fervor
It would be easy to overlook Othon Fritz’s Fauvist painting in SFMOMA’s second floor gallery. . .
The Painted I: Albrecht Dürer’s Last Self-Portrait
Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing. -Albrecht Dürer400 In 1500 Albrecht Dürer, aged 28, painted the last of his self portraits, a stunning vision of the painter as distinctly Christ-like and mimicking the Salvator...
Seeing Red: Part 2
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a color must speak volumes.
Seeing Red: Part 1
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a color must speak volumes.
Birthday Observances: Diego Velázquez
Happy Birthday to Diego Velázquez, who was baptized this day in 1599. Velázquez is truly a painter's painter and there are so many ways in which he has inspired my own practice. Foremost, his brush work and color harmonies! The multitude of reds, pinks, oranges and...
A Painter’s Bookshelf: Headlong
There are some paintings in the history of art that break free, just as some human beings do, from the confines of the particular little world into which they were born. They leave home—they escape from the tradition in which they were formed, and which seem at first...
The History of Lace in Seven Portraits: The Duchess of Alba
No people are more associated with the fashion of black Chantilly Lace than the Spanish. And no painting more delightfully portrays the tradition than Goya’s Duchess of Alba.
