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John Goodrich on Henri Matisse
While I admire Picasso’s drawing, prints and sculpture, Matisse still represents for me the fullest mixture, in the modern age, of discrimination and passion.
Andrew Fish on Henry Taylor
There’s an unabashed honesty in the way Henry Taylor paints a picture.
What's in a Name: Raoul Middleman on John Singleton Copley
How else to paint but to concentrate mercilessly on the singularity of high end realistic focus and finish... rendered to an almighty faultless Metaphysical T.
Tyrants and Artists: Elliott Green on Jenny Snider
This is an instructive demonstration of using the right shapes and shadows to conjure story and character to visualize the contents of psyche and soul.
Barry Nemett: Beholding Bonnard on a Vaulted Altar
Over and over again, the sky changed: until it was brand new. Or I was.
Gary Stephan on Paul Cezanne
Picasso said of Cezanne: "He is the father of us all.” In this essay I want to take the "us" expansively.
Katharine Kuharic on the Pantheon - Part II Richard Dadd
The blade may be in front of the self-portrait of the axe man... but it serves to slice the man into numerous pieces.
Katharine Kuharic on the Pantheon - Part I Ivan Albright
In his mature works the portraits are literally portraits of the walking dead.
Melinda Stickney-Gibson on Susan Rothenberg
It's a curious thing to feel an immediate and unflagging connection and respect for a fellow painter's work
Mary Lucier on the Video Mysteries of Cecelia Condit
They depict a psychological violence resulting from a basic cold-heartedness in human nature.
Philip Pearlstein on Piero della Francesca
Yet it seemed to me to provide a kind of grammar of pictorial invention, parallel to the grammatical constructions of language that adventurous poets play with...
David Reed on Caravaggio: Whirlpool - The Martyrdom of St. Ursula
The strange pattern of forms that now obsessed me implied a resolution of that split in consciousness between St. Ursula’s and Caravaggio’s portrait...
Mark Greenwold on Jack Levine
Greenbergian Modernism... has put nails in the coffins of all sorts of serious and interesting representational artists for most of my lifetime.
Marc Handelman on Martin Johnson Heade
The jungle is gathered as a flat organization of space, folded, and pierced so as to connect multiple locations.
Rackstraw Downes on Hercules Segers at the MET
Once you get into his weird scale and murmuring color a whole world opens up.
Luke Murphy on Robert Fludd
What it tries to contain — an unimaginable nothingness — is so beyond its simple means...
James McGarrell on Jan Vermeer
Its entry is inevitably from the bottom edge because it is from there that, as crawling infants, we all enter spaces.
Marie Peter-Toltz on Gerard Garouste
Beauty disguises her devilry; she represents the other half of hell.
Judith Bernstein on Edvard Munch
He created a vertigo inducing composition, extraordinary in its manifestation of Existentialism.
A Call to Action: Kelli Scott Kelley on Julie Heffernan
The bare-breasted heroine, the apparent caretaker of the heap, wielding a chainsaw...