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Audrey Flack on de Kooning's Women
I was a young artist in the early 1950’s feeling the weight of a male-dominated art world in places I frequented...
Clarity Haynes on Domenico Ghirlandaio
Ask me what my favorite painting is — a very hard question since there are so many — and I’ll eventually come up with An Old Man and his Grandson by Domenico Ghirlandaio...
Tony Robbin on Bonnard's Bathers
It is often said that Pierre Bonnard’s paintings featuring bathers are intimate works, as the women are caught unawares, glimpsed in unguarded and private moments...
Gabrielle Vitollo on Hacking the Biological: Post-gender and the Catharsis of Anish Kapoor’s 'Internal Object' Paintings
I found myself immersed in what I considered a psychological space, loaded with ideas of carnage, political violence, and the body...
Melissa Meyer Remembers Jean Dubuffet at the Jeu de Paume, 1991
These paintings by Dubuffet are currently up at Pace Gallery!
Max Kozloff on Pieter Bruegel and his P.O.V.
Yet this is the prospect given in Bruegel’s “St. John the Baptist Preaching.” Jesus is there, but as a presence he hardly counts and John is too far away to be heard distinctly.
Barry Nemett on Gwen John
The building weighs less than a flower. The parasol stem dreams about being a wicker chair...
David Molesky on Titian’s The Flaying of Marsyas
Through the double doors that open into the Met Breuer’s inaugural exhibition, I fell into the familiar vortex of a painting I have loved for decades...
Rosalyn Schwartz on Caspar David Friedrich
I first discovered the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich in the mid-1980’s when I was an Assistant Professor of Painting at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis...
Raoul Middleman on Rembrandt
The most puzzling aspect of the The Night Watch is the figure of the small girl, the so-called mascot of the civic guard...
Zaria Forman on William Bradford
In July 1869, American painter William Bradford, alongside photographers John L. Dunmore and George Critcherson, embarked on the first expedition to the Arctic devoted principally to art.
Ken Buhler on Andrew Pfriender
One wintry Sunday afternoon in the mid-1980’s, some friends and I piled into a car and headed up Rte. 17 into the Catskill Mountains. In a couple of hours, we exited at Loch Sheldrake, NY, and found our way to a rural mobile home belonging to Andrew Pfriender, aka Grandpa Pfriender.
Ellen Altfest on Francois Boucher
I’ve always disliked the Rococo, and pretty much any artist who paints pink cheeks (Rubens, Renoir, Hals, etc.). For me, it’s not the pleasure, desire, or playfulness of the Rococo and other similar confections, but it is the one-note, overly-sweet eagerness to please that irritates.
Margaret Grimes on Ruth Miller
The still life paintings of Ruth Miller are at first glance deceptively modest. On closer viewing however, they have a compelling power comparable to a gravitational pull.
Barbara Zucker on Florine Stettheimer
I walked into MOMA in 1976 and fell in love: with a painting. It was a coup de foudre. The first thing that drew me to it was the wacky, white scalloped frame.
Catherine Howe on Charles E. Burchfield
Burchfield explained, “To the child sitting cozily in his home , the roar of the wind outside fills his mind full of visions of strange phantoms and monsters flying over the land.”