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Snoopy Sees The Earth Wrapped In Sunset
In Snoopy Sees The World Wrapped In Sunset the world in the shape and color of the sun is surrounded by its own color. The yellow stripes represent the color that we associate with the sun while the...
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Portrait Of A Vespertine Flower: Amy Lamb
"the narcotic breath of beauty and bane" - Linda Marie Van TassellDatura goes by many names: thornapple, jimsonweed moonflower, devil's trumpet, hells bellsLamb thinks of her flower paintings as...
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Lynda Benglis: Sculpture Takes The Floor
"Everyday life gives me pleasure." - Lynda Benglis Art critics seem to be afraid of pleasure in art. This may explain their continued enthusiasms for minimalism and conceptual art. Conceptual art...
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Landscape Into Art: The Light In Switzerland
Eighteen forty-eight is usually remembered as a year of revolution in Europe; not so in Switzerland. That year the Swiss Confederation was formed and, with three official languages taken from...
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There's A Word For It: Bonnarding
"Because nothing is ever finished/ the painter would shuffle bonnarding,/ into galleries, museums,, even the homes of his patrons,/ with hidden palette and brush:/ overscribble drapery and table with...
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Gertrudes Altschul & Fotoclubsmo
"(F)or women, whether artists or writers ... the conditions of exile have especially ambiguous or even ambivalent implications." - Linda NochlinThat Gertrudes Altschul (1904-1962) would become an...
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Brazil The Bittersweet: Patricia Leite
From Gertrudes Altschul, a German immigrant to Patricia Leite, a living Brazilian artist (this site last week) images of nature in art.These paintings shown here are from a series on the Barra do Una,...
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Watching For Summer With Edie Harper
A white clapboard house with a swing on the porch. Just a few colors, with a sunny yellow that suggests the title of this serigraph - Summer Watch. And if you follow the white paw hanging down over...
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Maria Zieu Chino: The Potter As Archeologist
Bolts of lightning zigzag toward earth against a backdrop of driving rains. These are, in turn, overlaid by a crisscrossing network of leaves and flowers. The lines are so sharp and precise because...
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A Lazy Afternoon: Raoul Dufy
"One must meditate abut pleasure. Raoul Dufy is pleasure." - Gertrude SteinLuxe, calme et volupte. Luxury, calm, an voluptuousness are the characteristics we associate with the French artist Raoul...
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The Immigrants: Theresa Bernstein
One of the ideas running like Javascript behind this blog is that the history of the arts is more than a reductive mythology of large personalities. Like the writer who pens one or two good books but...
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The Blue Lantern Turns Fourteen
The Blue Lantern first appeared on July 12, 2007. In the beginning, I posted frequently to discover if there was an audience for what I wanted to do when I wasn't writing to order. Since the early days...
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From An Old House In Belgium: Vincent van Gogh
"Art is the highest form of hope." - Gerhard Richter. This New Year think of Vincent van Gogh's search for hope. In 1878 van Gogh came to the Borinage, a coal mining region in southern Belgium, where...
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"Voce et intellecto" Barbara Hoogeweegen
"Voce et intellecto." These were the qualities the poet Dante admired in art and when I look at Barbara Hoogeweegen's portraits of women, voce et intelletco are what comes to mind. Representation is...
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A Sign Of Summer: The Breton Stripe
"The body of the shirt will count twenty-one white stripes, each twice as wide as the twenty to twenty-one indigo blue stripes." - Admiral Ferdinand-Alphonse Hamelin, Minister of the Marine for...
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Madealine de Scudery: A Map Of The Affections
"and it's something that everybody needs...." - Lowman Pauling & Ralph Bass, Dedicated To The One ILove, 1961If there were a reliable map for affairs of the heart, its cartographer would become...
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Valerie Jaudon: Patterns Of Pleasure
"(W)e came to realize that the prejudice against the decorative has a long history and is based on hierarchies: fine art above decorative art, Western art above non-Western art, men's art above women's...
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Gino Severini Sees The Muses
"Of course I saw the Museson the hillroosting in the leavesWell then, I saw the Musesin the liberal oak leaveseating acorns and berriesI saw the Muses on an ancientoak, where they kept cawing.My heart...
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Kiki Kogelnik: "The Cyborgs Are Irreverent"
"The Cyborgs are irreverent." - Donna Harraway, The Cyborg Manifesto, 1985."Art comes from artificial." - Kiki KogelnikKogelnik's figures are often bent, broken, or damaged in some way but not...
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For Eighty Cents!: Angelo Morbelli
"Italy is made. We have still to make the Italians." - Massimo D'Azeglio (1798-1866). D'Azeglio did not live to see Rome designated as the capitol of new Italian state in 1871 but the...
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