An Interview with David Kassan
June 17, 2010 by painting
Filed under Figure Painting, contemporary realism, drawings, interviews
David Kassan, Self Portrait in Motion Oil/Panel, 40 x 28 inches
David Jon Kassan (Born 1977) is a contemporary realist painter best known for his life-size realist portraits. The paintings combine figurative subjects with abstract background textures he says are inspired by such painters as Franz Kline and Robert Rauschenberg. Kassan says, “my effort to [...]
Bill Murphy
May 5, 2010 by painting
Filed under cityscape painting, contemporary realism, drawings, landscape painting
Bill Murphy ALONG THE ARTHUR KILL 54 x 62 inches 2010 Watercolor on Paper
Bill Murphy is a Staten Island based realist artist working primarily in printmaking, drawing and painting. His website holds a dizzying array of works done since 1995 but I’m particularly drawn to his Staten Island waterfront images of urban decay, ship [...]
Mark Karnes
November 25, 2009 by painting
Filed under contemporary realism, drawings, interiors, notable painters
Mark Karnes Interior With Sugar Bowl 2000, acrylic on board, 25 x 26 inches
Over the past 30 years Mark Karnes has been painting and drawing in his Baltimore home using his familiar daily surroundings as a starting point of his subject matter. He paints neighborhood views through the many windows of his home or interiors [...]
Sketchbooks of Fairfield Porter Online
August 11, 2009 by painting
Filed under drawings, masters of perceptual painting
Awhile ago I discovered another online art treasure, the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Collections Online. Where digitized material from many important American artists(such as Rapheal Soyer, Jackson Pollack, Milton Avery, Arthur Dove, John Peto and John Singer Sargent names to show the range of artists available) including their writings, letters, photos, drawings and [...]
