July 04, 2022
It would be easy to overlook Othon Fritz's Fauvist painting in SFMOMA's second floor gallery. . .
June 27, 2022
Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
-Albrecht Dürer
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 Mundi gesture. The inscription to...
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a color must speak volumes.
June 13, 2022
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a color must speak volumes.
June 06, 2022
Happy Birthday to Diego Velázquez, who was baptized this day in 1599. Much has already been said about the painter. This morning I pay my own humble respects to him for providing me with lessons that inform my own painting practice.
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