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Ali Miller on Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Alexa Wilding fluctuates between a confident and seductive nymph, a stiff and unamused model, and a vulnerable damsel awaiting a rescue.
Mariel Herring on Chuta Kimura
Imagine if de Kooning and Matisse painted a landscape together, and maybe Bonnard was their professor/mentor? That’s ya boi Kimura.
Lydia Pettit on Henry Taylor's "I became . . ."
Overall there was chaos in his figure, strokes sometimes lining up with the form, and sometimes going against the logic of the body.
Barry Nemett on Robert Rauschenberg
All looked pleasant enough near the foot but, like a dramatic plot twist, everything closer to the bed’s head looked war-torn, tortured.
Julian Kreimer on Andrea Belag's Sunday Painter
The newest paintings convey a lot of those--the lightness that attends letting go, the playfulness and humor that comes when one is attentively waiting, waiting.
Julie Heffernan on El Greco
El Greco emphasizes this theme of separation—head from body, conceptual realm from sensorial realm, upper half from lower half, white from black.
Brenda Goodman on Her Work in Stages
There is something about feeling that rightness of a painting when I’m 75 that feels so very satisfying.
Constance Mallinson on Manet's and von Werefkin's Ragpickers
Few previous painters were capable of challenging and disturbing the consumerist mentality and self-satisfaction of the middle class and the economic and social systems that sustained them.
Laurie Hogin on Grant Wood
The readmission of artists like Grant Wood into high art discourses may open the door to many more types of representation, inclusive of many more places, lives, and subjectivities.
Zorawar Sidhu on František Kupka
Within a year of exhibiting it, he would never paint like this again
Aaron Zulpo on Anthony Cudahy
One man is found pulling leaves from a stem, as if counting down time. Another man stares longingly at a pile of petals.
Yvette Gellis on Katharina Grosse
Then there is the color itself - the purity of color and the psychological effects that pure color can have not only on the eye, but also on one’s emotional states and well-being.
David Humphrey on William John Whittemore
I like thinking, though, that the painting makes a complete body out of dispersed heterogeneous parts, a complicated body constrained and subdivided by guardrails, pedestals, canvas edges, bowler hats and neckties.
Sam McKinniss on Aaron Zulpo
...the evidence of his happiness made me happy, and for that I was grateful.
Brandi Twilley on Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
... Even as invented portraits, they have that quality that “someone is home.”
Brendan Carroll on Kamrooz Aram
He has skirted being defined by tradition, modernism or post-modernism by replacing theory and ideology with personal expression.
Altoon Sultan on Piero di Cosimo
There I was, standing in front of this beautiful, tender, poignant painting, unable to stop weeping.
Julie Heffernan on Pierre Bonnard: Part I
Bonnard’s was a revolution in subject matter, turning a dining room table into a phantasmagoric carnival and a woman at her toilette into a primal spectacle...
Keiran Brennan Hinton on Michael Stamm
The thin screens of constructed space, which I wade through at a sluggish speed, feel like the layers of a person you're getting to know.
What's in a Name: Raoul Middleman on John Singleton Copley
How else to paint but to concentrate mercilessly on the singularity of high end realistic focus and finish... rendered to an almighty faultless Metaphysical T.