3/23/17 3/23/17

John Moore on Pierre Roy

In the seventies while living in Philadelphia I spent a lot of time at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where I first saw Pierre Roy's Metric System.

3/9/17 3/9/17

Samuel Jablon on Mike Cloud

Like a sinister joke, or a self-destructive one, the work makes us laugh and question why we’re laughing.

3/1/17 3/1/17

Murray Zimiles on Kazimir Malevich

In keeping with communist doctrine, he claims that his work glorifies the proletariat...

2/14/17 2/14/17

Barkley Hendricks on Louis Sloan

I learned a great deal from Mr. Sloan when I was a student of his at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

1/31/17 1/31/17

Laura Newman on a Diagonal Line in Matisse's 'View of Notre Dame'

In Matisse’s View of Notre Dame, a diagonal line reaches out of the pentimenti, which establish the artist’s side of a French window, and spans the Seine.

1/13/17 1/13/17

Roberto Juarez on Hilma af Klint

Her paintings spoke to me in a personal yet enigmatic way. I had yet to experience anything like them.

12/5/16 12/5/16

Joan Waltemath on Zen and the Art of Billy Al Bengston

“Stud”, an exhibition of Billy Al Bengston’s paintings at Venus over Manhattan Gallery this past November, afforded a unique opportunity to see the legendary West Coast painter in New York City. It is clearly a special moment for an artist.

11/21/16 11/21/16

And then the Real Nature Showed Up: Emilie Clark on Rubens

Last week I went to the Met to pick out a painting to write about for Painters on Painting. I had initially thought that I would write about a contemporary work, always feeling that I need to broaden my knowledge of contemporary painting. But then the election happened and I wanted to be in the Met.

11/3/16 11/3/16

John Dubrow on Titian

I first saw Titian's Flaying of Marsyas in the winter of 1984. I had moved to Brooklyn from the Bay Area just 5 months before, when I heard the Flaying of Marsyas was at the Royal Academy in London for an exhibition on 16th Century Venetian painting. I quit my job, got a cheap flight and flew over.

10/25/16 10/25/16

Richard Kalina on Stuart Davis

A little while ago I went to the Stuart Davis retrospective at the Whitney. I was expecting to like it, and I did. I’ve seen my fair share of Davis’ paintings over the years, and I have particularly fond memories of his solo 1991 Metropolitan Museum exhibition, Stuart Davis: American Painter.

10/18/16 10/18/16

Nancy Hagin on Giorgio Morandi

The first Morandi painting that I ever saw was at the Pittsburgh International Triennial Exhibition of 1958. I was a first year art student at Carnegie Mellon University, then called Carnegie Tech.

10/11/16 10/11/16

Kristen Schiele on Charles Burchfield

Charles Burchfield's landscape paintings are riveting. This painting, Sphinx and Milky Way, with its bat-like shapes, celestial falling stars, deep midnight blue and black center, flowers with faces, and symbolic points of light, pulls me in with a kind of intensity I've discovered in few others.