The Talent Trap

So which will get you further, hard work or talent?  Is this even a legitimate question? One thing’s sure – using “lack of talent” as an excuse for not working hard isn’t going to get [...]

By |2023-12-22T07:47:40-05:00December 22nd, 2023|

A Mind of Winter

Winter’s arrival can bring a contemplative, philosophical turn to an artist’s mind. The faded dawns, gray-velvet afternoons and sparkling-clear nights can inflect paintings of winter with a quiet, melancholy stillness present at no other time [...]

By |2023-12-21T15:59:50-05:00December 21st, 2023|

The Italian Sargent?

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 [...]

By |2023-12-19T12:48:24-05:00December 19th, 2023|

Monet’s Poplars

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 [...]

By |2023-12-12T12:20:55-05:00December 12th, 2023|
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