Sharon Stepman, Next Day on Times Square, 2006. Digital image.
As he walks through a looking glass in the film that bears his name, Orpheus finds himself surrounded by objects that recall but do not replicate the world he has left behind. These strange but oddly familiar abstractions seem ... Read More »
Mary Hrbacek, Close Call with Companion (digital photograph); Close Call, charcoal on paper, 22 x 33 in (drawing); Close Call IV, acrylic and gesso on canvas, 4 x 6 ft (painted drawing), 2019. A series of three media with one motif.
As a young girl growing up in Sweden ... Read More »
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Harvesters, 1565. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 46 7/8 x 63 3/4 in.
For Ernest Hemingway, no visit to New York City would be complete without a stop at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see one of his favorite paintings, The Harvesters by Pieter ... Read More »
Edwin Austin Abbey, “King Lear,” Act I, Scene I, 1898. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 54.25 x 127.25 in.
Poetry, said T.S. Eliot, enlarges our sensibilities to a degree greater than painting or sculpture. The reason lies in the power of words to raise our hidden feelings to the conscious ... Read More »
Tom Shannon, Drop, 2009. Aix en Provence, France.
“What’s it about?” A common question from people looking at a work of art, but a bit of a puzzler for the creator of a sculpture, a painting or a novel. One answer is an appeal to the idea that sparked ... Read More »