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 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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More people have heard of Winslow Homer than of Homer Dodge Martin. And though he’s not a “household name” (show me a 19th century American painter is?!), Homer Dodge Martin interests art historian as one [...]

Many in the art world consider Gerhard Richter the world's leading painter. If you’re curious about contemporary painting, he’s someone you need to know, not just because of his dazzling technical virtuosity, but for his [...]

In 1904, the young, focused, and ambitious Welsh painter Gwen John arrived in Paris. Homeless and living in an abandoned building, she decided she had nothing to lose and knocked on the door of the [...]

The passionate affair lasted only months.  The Great Artist, sculptor August Rodin, found his next model and muse and moved on. But the young woman obsessively in love with him, the painter Gwen John (1876–1939), [...]

The pyramid or triangle design in painting offers a way to avoid composition problems like lack of movement, imbalance, “one for each eye,” or too much linearity or “stripiness” (obviously stacked horizontals).   “One for each [...]