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.

Monday, March 26, 2018

The Billy Rose Fire

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Fire and paintings do not mix. (This is a reasonably accurate digital reconstruction. I did NOT run out and take a picture of my stupidi...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Mona Caron

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Outgrowing, Mona Caron's urban weeds left unattended, though in this case grown for their medicinal qualities in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. ...
Monday, March 12, 2018

Ed Emberley

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Ed Emberley joins his creations. Ed Emberley's thumbprint instructional illustrations.   At the most elementary level, childre...
Monday, March 5, 2018

Nancy Fouts

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Butterfly Owl , 2012, Nancy Fouts. Though stopping short of a true oxymoron, Fouts' taxidermy sculpture is certainly surreal. This...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Monochrome Painting

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Tree in Red , Sunmallia. A monochrome painting (black and white are not regarded as colors). Understanding and employing color is almos...
Monday, February 19, 2018

Citizenship Through Art

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The Executions of the Third of May, 1808, Francisco Goya The painting depicts an execution of a group of Spanish countrymen by Napoleo...
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