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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
