During the Renaissance, artistic ideals changed from a serious and formal way of depicting subjects, generally religious, to a much more realistic style incorporating scenes from common life. "Man is the measure of all things" was the motto of the time, and painters began to include details from daily life in their frescoes. With the invention of the perspective, paintings acquired a firm place…
We arrived just before dinner at our hotel in Bar Harbor, Maine and were immediately overwhelmed by the cool air full of the fragrance of sea and kelp. It was a perfect day and a perfect evening, sitting outside with our dinner overlooking the bay as the light dimmed. We took a walk along the water, probably one of the…
You look out and see the trees through the studio window. Green leaves, the sunlight making them yellowish with darker green shadows. Warm, tan tree trunks; deep, green foliage further away; a cascade of green in different shades. You assume that everyone looking out on these leaves sees them the same way that you do. So many people get cataracts…
I thought I would take a moment to jot down some tips about some of the great things you can see in NYC right now. We were just there. The Metropolitan Museum. There is a really nice exhibit about the way in which Matisse documented the revisions he made of many of his paintings. He had a friend who was a photographer…
Selected Pieces from Slow Art at The National Museum in Stockholm I saw a great exhibit in Sweden recently called Slow Art. It was shown at the National Museum in Stockholm and contained not very many pieces, only about 30. But each one was exquisite. The emphasis was on how long it takes, how painstaking the process of creation is if…
I never had thought I would be taking a workshop in the big Apple, and I had been looking forward to this opportunity for months. I had seen Beatrice Coron’s paper cut work in museums and galleries for a couple of years and I was very intrigued with her work. To my surprise she responded positively when I asked her…