Art Now and Then

"Art Now and Then" does not mean art occasionally. It means art NOW as opposed to art THEN. It means art in 2020 as compared to art many years ago...sometimes many, many, MANY years ago. It is an attempt to make that art relevant now, letting artists back then speak to us now in the hope that we may better understand them, and in so doing, better understand ourselves and the art produced today.

Friday, September 3, 2010

A Tough Act to Follow

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We've all, no doubt, heard the phrase, "That's a tough act to follow."  Of course the reference grows out of the Vaudevill...
Thursday, September 2, 2010

Luminism

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It's always interesting to compare what's happening here in art to what's happening there in art.  Here , of course is the Uni...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Artists' Statements

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Few artists enjoy writing about their work.  If the artist happens to paint somewhat, or somewhat MORE than somewhat abstractly, they've...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Lee Krasner

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For some years, my wife was burdened with the fact that she was best known as "Jim Lane's wife" or "Jonathan's mom....
Monday, August 30, 2010

Influences

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With all the multi-media communication links available to, indeed assaulting , artists in this first decade of this twenty-first century, it...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Edward Hopper's Depression

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Recently, we find ourselves amidst what many are calling "The Great Recession."  Although I don't claim to have coined the phr...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

The Making of The Raft of the Medusa

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A journalist, writer, or documentary film maker today spends weeks, perhaps months, or even years putting together background material befo...
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