A personal essay addressing the question “what’s the big deal about Mark Rothko?”
What the Buddhist art from the caves of Dunhuang and a Stuart Davis mural say about art out of context.
As I looked through my portfolio recently I was struck by an extensive reliance on orange hues. As far back as I can remember I've had a natural affinity for the orange. Perhaps, as I am an October baby, it's to be expected. Nevertheless, it's hard to think of a color...
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow—the coup de grâce—for the painter as well as for the picture.
—Picasso
WARNING:This post contains high contrast patterns and may not be suitable for those with photosensitive epilepsy. Liz Hager, sketchbook color experiment Several years ago, I unknowingly juxtaposed vermilion (reddish orange) with a turquoise akin to cyan in a...
In a successful painting everything is integral—all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness. —Richard Diebenkorn Over the past month, while working on a particularly challenging project, I have immersed myself...
How adverse situation led to breakthrough in painting practice.
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...
Behind the scenes creating The Rocks of Rhode Island paintings.
