A Guest Column by Spanish Realist Daniel Coves

Two painters, one year — and two completely different visions of the season.

Maybe it happens when you’re driving: gold light strikes a line of trees against a darkened sky. Or at the mall: a stranger’s face opens a momentary window onto ages of human existence. Awe, wonder, [...]

“Art is a passion, or it is nothing” -Robert Fry Passion is what we chase in art and creativity. A day came when you read a novel, stood before a painting, watched someone create something [...]

Good artists imitate; great artists steal. This phrase is variously attributed to Steve Jobs (who misattributed it to Pablo Picasso - we’ll get to that), and to Lionel Trilling, Igor Stravinsky, T.S. Eliot, and William [...]

People used to say, “Is there anything in it?” to question if you could benefit from something or whether it was a waste of time. As in, “What do you do?” Oh, I  work in the field [...]

If we listen, as the winter wanes, can we hear within the distant strains of far-off summer’s music a piping and a dancing, such as artists and sculptors have celebrated in many a work of [...]

It’s natural to assume that the subject of your painting (what it’s a painting of) is what affects your audience and gets feeling across. For example, you might expect a vase full of flowers to inspire [...]

Leonardo da Vinci is said to have maintained that “painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is a painting that is felt rather than seen."  Indeed, painting and poetry often seem [...]