Thoughts on light, color, painting, time passing, and the meaning of words from Robert Beck.
Black and White
Composite Artwork: Communicating Greater Reality?
These paintings symbolise the interconnectedness of all things, and that we live in a unified universe.
Leopoldo Méndez: An Aesthetic of Protest
“…a new aesthetic, one of protest, full of popular longings, and that lives in the full multitude of rebellion, is strong and great and captures us with the emotion of battle — this is life.”
The New York Beautification Project
Ellen Harvey’s paintings from the New York Beautification Project become a testament to the strange beauty of the ephemeral, even in the way everything decays or gets covered over with time, becoming a part of the shifting layers of history, of the life of the city.
We are grateful to share a selection of stories from the project.
Remembering Paul Matthews
A moving tribute from one painter to another.
A Garland of Melodies: Reimagining Ragamalas
A facinating article about a special category of miniature painting called ‘Ragamala,’ which is the pictorial representation of an Indian musical mode or melody which is called a ‘raga.’
The Alchemy of Grief: Moon Horse and Sky
“Pigments from a rock collected under her horse’s hooves are woven together with ochre earth pigments from France, the same ochres used by Van Gogh in his paintings of sunlit fields.” An interview with Santa Fe photographer and painter Stella Maria Baer by Alice Courtright
Cities of Dreams: An Interview With Vinita Karim
We were grateful for a chance to ask Vinita Karim a few questions about her remarkable artwork.
Grace in the Ordinary: An Interview with Michael Ward
Very grateful to share this wonderful interview with the remarkable Michael Ward.
The Acceptance of Sorrow: An Interview with Wormwood Stubbs
We are so grateful for the chance to talk to Wormwood Stubbs about his remarkable paintings.
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