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Richard Estes on Bernardo Bellotto
There is a small painting by Bellotto at the Chicago Art Institute - a view of a street in the small town of Pirna, Germany a short distance from Dresden - that I used to see every day when I was a student there and which always fascinated me.
Jacqueline Gourevitch on Piet Mondrian
This Mondrian has a marvelous, lilting, adventurousness to it: an improvisational, searching liveliness. These are life enhancing qualities.
Joyce Kozloff on Miriam Schapiro
Among Miriam Schapiro’s works, the black paintings are my favorites. Although she often used color ecstatically, I never felt it came to her easily.
Richard Haas on Jan van Eyck
The challenge to an artist to think about his or her influences is such a central one that it immediately sends a stream of thoughts about a seemingly endless number of artists through one’s head.
Amy Weiskopf on Carlo Carra
If Pompeian still life frescos and Cubist still life paintings had a baby, Carlo Carra's Natura Morta con la Squadra would be that child.
Virginia Wagner on Doron Langberg
We know that, under those rough, hasty marks, the scene exists in all of the intricacies of life.
The Mute Shape of Exteriority: Jennifer Coates on Paul Gauguin
By probing into visionary states through the psychological or magical effects of color, not just through the depiction of women experiencing a shared hallucination, Gauguin veers into abstraction.
Julia Jacquette on Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
I get teary eyed every time I see it – the relaxed confidence and gentle smile with which Labille-Guiard has depicted herself.
Peter Saul on Paul Cadmus
Paul Cadmus’ Coney Island was the first picture I ever saw, in 1939 when I was 5 years old.
Phyllis Bramson on Henry Darger
Henry Darger is a self-taught artist whose life's work was discovered in his Chicago apartment in the months before his death in 1973.
Gregory Amenoff on Pieter Bruegel
First off, let’s get one thing straight. The Low Countries are aptly named. They’re low. No mountains at all. None!
Lesley Dill on Agnes Martin
I am writing about Agnes Martin because her work approaches me initially where I think I live, a place of attained quietness through years of meditation.
John Bowman on Gian Antonio Fumiani
Venice has a surfeit of amazing examples of painting, and one is reluctant to choose a favorite from the stunning array of this kind of art on view.
Elizabeth Huey on Fra Angelico
The predella panel of Fra Angelico’s Perugia Altarpiece envisions the humble yet heroic life of Saint Nicholas, also known as Nicholas the Wonderworker.
Tony Robbin on the Painter of Pech Merle
25,000 years ago an artist who looked a lot like you and me (except without the haircut and the Uniqlo clothes) climbed down 150 feet below the surface of what is now called France...
Adam Cvijanovic on Thomas Cole
He was not a particularly remarkable painter. There is no dazzling brushstroke or consummate gesture. They are paintings that get the job done and punch the clock.
Joan Semmel on Lisa Yuskavage
Young women’s yearning to regain their lost childhood without losing the sexual freedoms gained in the new independence is perfectly symbolized in Yuskavage’s images.
James Siena on Albrecht Dürer
It’s no coincidence that this particular self-portrait (the middle one of three he painted in his younger years) sits in the Prado.
Angela Dufresne on Gentileschi's 'Beheading' - Two Times
I know its an absurd statement to say – “Masterpiece” or “Greatest Painting Ever Made”. It’s obscene, and not in a good way, I admit this.
Martha Edelheit on Georgia O'Keeffe: A Reminiscence
It's 1965. I'm daydreaming in my studio about all the famous, inaccessible artists alive in the world. I think of Georgia O'Keeffe.