Slade School of Art, Part Two – William Coldstream

William Coldstream, Reclining Nude 1974-6
 
This is the second post in a series of posts where Neil Plotkin, who has been living in London for the summer, looks at a some significant painters coming out of the The Slade School of Art in the UK. This article introduces William Coldstream and [...]

The Slade School of Art – Part One

William Coldstream, Window in Hampstead 1981
 
Painting Perceptions is again fortunate to have a guest article from Neil Plotkin who has been living in London for the summer. This first post is an brief overview where he looks at a few significant painters coming out of the The Slade School of Art in the UK [...]

Oil and Water at Fred Bancroft and Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects

 
Oil and Water at Fred Bancroft and Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects
By Neil Plotkin with Jennifer Gilchrist
 
The received wisdom in Western Art is that painting has continuously and inevitably evolved away from representation towards a higher and more pure abstract style. In line with this belief is the assumption that artists only worked in one [...]

Lennart Anderson at JSS Certosa Summer Program in Italy

Lennart Anderson – ( title and date unknown) Portrait
 
This is old news for some readers here but the renowned painter, Lennart Anderson will be a special Guest Artist at the JSS at the Certosa Summer Program in Italy this year. From the JSS Italy program blog,
“The former teacher of several generations of artists [...]

Jerome Witkin

Jerome Witkin January 2006 (photo from a flickr Syracuse University PhotoStream)
 
Painting Perceptions is incredibly fortunate to have talked at length with Jerome Witkin recently, thanks to Bill Murphy, who suggested the idea of an interview and helped me get in touch with Mr. Witkin. I’d again like to express my gratitude to Professor Witkin who [...]

Interview with Gideon Bok

Gideon Bok King of Nails 2006-2010 oil on linen, 70 x 79 inches
Guest Post and Interview by Erik Halvorsen
Throughout art history, the traditional perception of a painter’s studio is one of tranquil solitude. A space where things remain rather constant, save for the quiet accumulation of canvases in various states of completion. Gideon Bok’s depictions [...]

Henry Finkelstein interview at the Jerusalem Studio School blog

Henry Finkelstein The Greenhouse III, oil on canvas, 34 x 46 inches
Fascinating interview with Henry Finkelstein on the Jerusalem Studio School blog by Rebecca Harp, he is currently teaching a landscape painting workshop there. Henry Finkelstein graduated from the Cooper Union and the Yale School of Art and is a former Fulbright fellow [...]

Nancy Friese’s Landscapes

Nancy Friese Clouds 2005, oil/linen, 15 x 22 inches
Nancy Friese is a leading landscape painter and printmaker who paints outdoors from direct observation, often of the Rhode Island landscape, where she also lives and teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has also traveled widely to paint views from such places as Japan, [...]

Mark Karnes

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 [...]

Philip Pearlstein

Philip Pearlstein Two models in a window with cast iron toys, oil on canvas 1987 72 x 72 inches

Video of Philip Pearlstein in his NY studio
A couple of Philip Pearlstein shows are going on that may be of interest. At the Betty Cuningham Gallery PEARLSTEIN/HELD: Five Decades
Works by Pearlstein and Al Held [...]

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