He was the most fashionable portraitist in the most fashionable place in the Western world: Parisian high society during the Belle Epoch, or “Beautiful Period” of 1871–1880, a golden age of aristocratic prosperity and joie de [...]
Sometime in New York City around 2007 several early and mid-career artists gathered around the studio of Chinese American watercolorist Paul Ching-Bor. Ching-Bor is known for dynamic, large-format watercolors of urban scenery. Since going their [...]
In a fascinating, well-written, gorgeously designed and photographed new book, Emma Jansson meticulously documents what every Zorn admirer has always wanted to know: how did this virtuoso of oil painting seemingly do the impossible again [...]
“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the [...]
"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life." - Rachel Carson Art can be a marvelous way of waking up. Our modern lives tend toward [...]
Claude Monet, not that he was some sort of all-powerful art god or something (spoiler: he was), once diverted a branch of the Epte River. Though it sounds like something only heroes like Hercules can [...]
Novelist Kurt Vonnegut liked to tell the story of something someone said to him as a fifteen-year-old that eventually allowed him to become the imaginative writer he became. He was on an archeological dig and [...]
You can learn a lot from studying artists who never gave up. Consider the difficult life and late-blooming career of Shiko Munakata. The young man who would eventually be “Japan’s van Gogh” hadn’t gone to [...]
You feel it only after, when you’ve broken out of the trance. For the last hour or so you’ve been “somewhere else,” lost in the moment, not worried about ANYTHING. Also, you weren’t worrying about [...]
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