In my first “Favorite Artists” blog post on Cezanne I touched on Van Gogh, making a comparison between self-portraits by the two artists. Since Van Gogh is also a big […]
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Industrialization and Ambivalence in 19th Century Art Nineteenth century attitudes toward the juggernaut of industrial and technological progress, as reflected in the arts, is a vast subject, not to be […]
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The reconciliation of surface and solid form I will begin my blog series on favorite artists with Cezanne because, on balance, he is my #1 favorite. Really being turned on […]
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The Varieties of English Naturalism When we think of the naturalistic tradition in English landscape painting at the beginning of the 19th century we immediately think of the work of […]
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Finding Needles in the Haystack of Nature When working from nature on a two-dimensional surface, it is fair to say that the translation of three dimensions to two is the […]
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The period of the French revolution was one when painting and theater had an extraordinary influence on the thoughts and feelings of contemporaries.
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Cornering the Will-o-the-Wisp In an earlier post, about why I am out here in the sun, rain and snow, I said that the primary reason was because my painting enterprise […]
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Jacques-Louis David and the “Oath of the Horatii” It is almost impossible for us today to grasp the impact that a painting like David’s “Oath of the Horatii” had on […]
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Choosing a Picture from the Endless Panorama of Nature Once you are faced with nature head on, literally your first decision is what piece of it you wish to include […]
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One of the most fascinating of the developments that occurred during the 18th century was the recognition of an independent aesthetic attitude toward art, and indeed toward the world. /
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