The Aberdeen has a newly refurbished Art Gallery. How do I know? Well that is a good question and one that a blogger friend and brilliant photographer, Scott K Marshall… Read more Kaffe Fassett – 50 Years in Colour at Aberdeen Art Gallery →
My daily art calendar always provides a teachable moment. Today, on Halloween, I was greeted by the artist, Bohumil Kubišta’s painting “Still Life with a Skull.” My first thought was:… Read more Happy Halloween with Bohumil Kubišta →
Lacuna 2018 by Birthe Piontek, has moved on and yet remains in my memory and in my photo files under Public Art that I have experienced. Over the past months,… Read more Lacuna, 2018 →
Join me in celebrating Gustave Caillebotte’s birthday by viewing a video produced by the Art Institute of Chicago featuring the extraordinary restoration of his most famous painting “Paris Street; Rainy… Read more Happy Birthday Gustave Caillebotte →
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all… Read more The Art of Remembering Portraits of Persistence →
“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.” Leonardo da Vinci It’s been 500 years! All of Italy – and the world – is celebrating Leonardo da Vinci’s… Read more Leonardo da Vinci: The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne →
If you love chocolate, this is your day. According to several on-line sources, July 7th was designated as World Chocolate Day around 2009. The history of chocolate celebrations, however, dates… Read more Jean-Étienne Liotard and The Chocolate Paintings →
“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.”… Read more Artists in the Garden: Vincent van Gogh →
