A brief introduction to the work of one Britain’s finest (and under-appreciated) landscape painters.
Sheila Fell – Painting the Dark Side of Cumbria
Beauty in Odd Places: An Interview with Lauren Barnett
“Like everywhere we go, even a highway or a junk yard or a parking lot has something about it that you want to capture or remember. It’s nice to go through your day expecting to find beauty in odd places.”
Breakers
“In subsequent weeks, I might take time to look at it and see what I’ve done. Or in this case, listen to the waves.”
Black on Black: Louis Draper Made His Subjects Visible
“For Louis Draper, who grew up in segregated Richmond, Virginia, in the 1930s and ’40s, navigating expectations about photography’s realism posed a unique challenge.”
Color, Memory, Place: An Interview With Jonathan Hooper
“Colour is the way that I seek to convey the total experience of a place — an experience that is only partly visual, but physical, emotional and built from memory as well.”
Rye Tippett: Poems and Paintings
Some poems and paintings from Rye Tippett.
Hanging Around Lambertville
“It’s easy for your art career to get derailed. The important thing is to get it back on track.”
Exploring Ganesha Paintings from the Pahari School
“The Lord with the curved trunk and a mighty body, who has the lustre of a million suns, I pray to thee Oh Lord, to remove the obstacles from all the actions I intend to perform.” An exploration of paintings of Ganesha from the Pahari school.
Art as a bullhorn: An Interview with Peter J. Ketchum
Whether I’m commenting on politics or the hypocrisy of organized religion or societal ills in general, my art is like a bullhorn used to get attention about things that concern me.
How Free is Free: Ben Shahn, the Statue of Liberty, and the History of American Art
Historians of American art are engaged in a search for ways in which to speak meaningfully and broadly about contested traditions and about both the promises and limits of the country’s national iconography and history, to a nation fragmented along racial, ethnic, class, and religious lines.
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