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, October 25, 2016

What NOT to Do in an Art Museum

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Yesterday I began a series on some of the smaller art museums around the United States. Virtually every city has one or two. Most are sh...
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Monday, October 24, 2016

The Huntington

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The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens Today it occurred to me that, though I've written about quite a numb...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

WOW Architecture

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WOW is when you look at an example and your first reactions becomes, "What is it?" In this case it's the robotic bartenders...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

A Comment on a Comment

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Way back on January 12, 2011, I posted one of the most popular (in terms of readership) items I've ever composed. I titled it, "Th...
Friday, October 21, 2016

Pigments

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If you had been a Renaissance painter, your art supply cupboard might have looked something like this. Today, when an artist sits down...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Paintings I've Not Done Yet--Animals

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Copyright, Jim Lane "Look how brave my dad is." There's no two ways about it; animals are hard to photograph. About nin...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Tablescape Painting

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Dinner Table, 1896-97, Henri Matisse One of the most popular items I've ever posted here was a discourse on food art. A close seco...
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