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.

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Repurposed Homes

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Center Elementary School, after remodeling. Notice the smaller windows on the far end of the building. Many years ago when I still tau...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Painting tips

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Painting tips--good, bad, and downright ugly. In some ways this may seem to be a rather foolish topic in that there's no way, even ...
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Sunday, July 24, 2016

Avigdor Arikha

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Don't go looking for this painting in any catalogue raisonne listing Arikhas' life's work. It's an image I composed empha...
Saturday, July 23, 2016

Apelles

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Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the studio of Apelles, 1725-26, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo How do you write about a painter whom fe...
Friday, July 22, 2016

Doggy Art

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Poodles seem to make the best painting surfaces, what we might call a "shaped" canvas. Very often as I cast about in my mind...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Stefan Pabst

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Click the white triangle above.   There was a time, probably centuries ago now, when drawing was a respected art form. I'm not ...
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