"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...
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...
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...
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...
Does an audience complete an artwork?
A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar stood under the open sky, after WWI, in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath these clouds, in a field of forces of destructive torrents and explosions, was the...
