I was reading the first article in Picasso and Portraiture and was reminded that artistic portraiture changed when photography was invented. Photography supplanted painting as the means of supplying true likenesses of patrons who wished to preserve their likenesses. This freed painters to imbue their portraits with more expression, since they were no longer constrained […]
The study below was inspired, in part, by my recent birthday as well as by Joan Miró. My mother always used to say, “May you live to be one hundred and twenty.” By her reckoning, I am just past middle age. I don’t feel old and yet, by many standards, I am. I get a […]
Symbols are important. The slide show that Tom Hanks gave in the beginning of The DaVinci Code provides a good summary of symbolism. Symbolic Images by Ernst Gombrich is on my reading list for a more serious treatment of symbolism throughout art history. However, my current grounding in symbolic representation falls more in line with the work of Mel […]
Occasionally I get inspiration block. I suppose many of you are the same way, especially on Mondays. To tell the truth, I’m taking a break from reading about the theoretical bases of art and trying to implement my own vision. While I was thinking of what my experiment of the day would be, I thought […]
