Catherine Murphy at Peter Freeman Inc, April 2013 (from Gorky’s Granddaughter)

Catherine Murphy at Peter Freeman Inc, April 2013 from Gorky's Granddaughter on Vimeo.   Fascinating video by Zachary Keeting who interviews Catherine Murphy for the Gorky’s Granddaughter blog. Catherine Murphy talks about her recent work currently showing at the Peter Freeman Gallery (3/14 – 4/27/13) Great video footage of her paintings which show the paintings close up [...]

Scott Noel: A Life in Paint

Scott Noel, Enceinte, oil on linen, 34 x 46 inches courtesy of the Gross Mccleaf Gallery   Scott Noel: A Life in Paint By Elana Hagler (Guest Writer for Painting Perceptions)   As I enter through the door in the side of the large industrial building in Manayunk, a slightly run-down but vigorous town of [...]

Giorgio Morandi, The Essence of the Landscape

Morandi’s Viewfinder click here for a larger view   A few months ago I found out about a rare show in Alba, Italy of Giorgio Morandi’s Landscapes where some 70 landscape paintings were shown back at the beginning of this year. There was also a catalog for the show with many excellent reproductions of the [...]

Francis Cunningham

  I recently discovered Francis Cunningham blog and youtube channel, an amazing treasure trove from a perceptual master’s knowledge and experience. Francis Cunningham has taught master classes at the Art Students League in New York City and taught many years at the Brooklyn Museum Art School as well as many other leading figurative art educational [...]

Jeffrey Reed Video

Here is a delightful video interview with Jeffery Reed that was made by Rusty Scupperton at a recent show at Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia. Here is a link to an article I made about his landscape paintings awhile back.

Michael Kareken – new drawing and TV interview

  Michael Kareken emailed me recently to show me some exciting new drawings of wrecked cars at a salvage yard he’s been working on, exploring a possible new body of work that grows from his incredible exploration of his recycle series subject matter. These drawings are all works in progress but I find that all [...]

The Mona Lisa Curse

The Mona Lisa Curse a 2008 British documentary by the art critic Robert Hughes which discusses the transformation of art into commodity. Hughes compares the Mona Lisa, with Damien Hirst’s, diamond encrusted skull,”For the Love of God” with saying:   “What ties the Mona Lisa to this glittery bobble is their role in a giant [...]

Lucian Freud: Portraits DVD and Book

Lucian Freud with Martin Gayford. Photograph: David Dawson (from a Guardian.com book review)   There is a DVD (currently only able to get in the UK) of film-maker Jake Auerbach’s Lucian Freud: Portraits. I have a 3 part, relatively long youTube excerpts that give an excellent sampling of the movie after the break.   Also, [...]

Lennart Anderson Slide Talk Video

Lennart Anderson, “Self Portrait with Hammer and Nails”, 1986   “All things are understood by means of comparison. For in comparison, there lies the power that states that which is more, that which is less and that which is equivalent” Lennart Anderson from his Painting from Nature essay   “Lennart Anderson is not only a [...]

YouTube Video of Antonio Lopez Garcia painting in Madrid – Aug 2010

Painting urban views is hard enough but I can’t imagine the added frustration of “crowd control” while painting! Being famous clearly has its down sides… Thanks to Dean Fisher who just emailed this link to this new video of Antonio Lopez Garcia painting this month on the street in Madrid. 9/28/2010 update I just ran [...]

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