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Intertidal Life. Part One
You can call it the English Channel but the French don't. And contrary to common impression, the Channel Islands are not part of Great Britain nor are they part of the European Union. Neither here...
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Joy In Our Cause
"Women's rights are human rights; human rights are women's rights." - Hillary Rodham Clinton.Like the fabulous globes created for King Louis XIV of France, moments in the history of the world cascade...
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Summertime, And The Living Is Easy
"I loaf and invite my soul," Walt Whitman proclaimed in Leaves of Grass. As a picture of relaxed ratiocination Young Girl Stretched Out On A Bench is difficult to beat but I would not have given it a...
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Intertidal Life: Guzzle In Sight
I don't know what was uppermost in the mind of Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts when she painted A Beach Afternoon, whether it was the tide going out on a summer day or the people breathing in the briny...
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Winslow Homer At The Arkell: Intertidal Life
"Spare me any more small museums," said the critic."No one ever tells you how many bad pictures there are in the Uffizi," said the painter.What Winslow Homer would make of the recent renovation and...
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A Big Wave Knocked Her Over
I. What we now think of as swimming was an invention of the new urban middle class during the second half of the 19thcentury. It was not that no one swam before that time of course; it was that...
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From Baudelaire To Eric Rohmer
"What one can see out in the sunlight is always less interesting than what goes on behind a windowpane. In that black or luminous square life lives life dreams. life suffers. Across the ocean of roofs...
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Alma Thomas. A Painter And Her Brush
Manuals of Japanese brush painting include rules for how to make strokes; if that seems restrictive or inhibiting, just look at the paintings of Alma Thomas (1891-1978). Like an instrumentalist whose...
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Eric Cheviillard Re-imagines History
"The end of prehistoric times was precipitated by the advent of writing....in brief, prehistory comes to an end when the story begins." -- (all quotations are from Prehistoric Times by Eric...
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Radical Light In Italy: Signorini & Moresco
I."And this our life, exempt from public haunt,Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,Sermons in stone, and good in every thing." - William Shalespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Scene IFor...
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A Picture And A History
"I have so much faith in you.I could wait for your voicesilently through centuries of darkness.Like the sunyou know all the secrets.You could make geraniumsand wild orange trees bloomdeep in marble...
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I Macchiaioli: The Radical Light Of Giuseppe Abbati
"Splendour of noon outspread,when trees cast no shadow, and more and more excess of ligth gives to everything arounda tawny shimmer.Above, the sun - and the dry shingle,My day, then, isn't done. Not...
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I Macchiaioli: Silvestro Lega's Winter Visit
"There's silence between one page and another.The long streets of the land up to the woodswhere gatheredshadows escape the dayand nights show throughdiscrete and preciouslike fruit on branchesin this...
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Eugen Gabritschevsky: Artist Of Loneliness
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see," said Edgar Degas. Some of the others who have seen the paintings of Eugene Gabritschevsky have claimed to see in them pictures of flatness...
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Discovering Arthur Carles
He has been called "one of the most brilliant colorists in the history of American art." (BarbaraAnn Boese Wolanin) I think that must be so because I was immediately drawn to this trio of paintings...
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Alexander Benois: The Philosopher's Admonition
In this watercolor by Alexander Benois we see two men strolling in the sunlit gardens at Versailles, one a courtier and the other a philosopher. The philosopher is dressed in turquerie, an imitation...
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Merikokeb Berhanu: An Ethiopian Artist Today
"I want viewers of my work to hear what the images have to say through their own power. Sensation can be experienced through elements of art. The life we are passing through...the complexity and...
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Notes From the Art Of The Print: Fannie Hillsmith
It sounds like a dream come true, and it is. When a wealthy private university with several art galleries and a collection of 45,000 works of art decides to offer a Humanities course to the general...
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Francoise Gilot: A Portrait Of the Artist As a Young Woman
"A touch of red, how nice,why not a little more of the same, and then it is too much! All the more reason to go on adding more and more. It is good to exaggerate, to go beyond, to pursue the extreme...
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Secret Panda Haven
What would the world be, once bereftOf wet and of wildness? Let them be left,O let them be left, wildness and wet;Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. - excerpt from "Inversnaid" by Gerard...
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