More non-photographic, non-electronic, non-iPhone “selfies” self-portrayals. (Images above: Giorgio de Chirico, Annibale Carracci, Ferencné Paczka, Edward Hopper, Ilya Repin, Harry Anderson, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, William Merritt Chase)
I was asked to be the Answers.com “Category Expert Writer” for a period of several months in 2013-2014, writing articles for the category of Painting: http://painting.answers.com These were my contributions. February 2014 An Introduction to Plein Air Painting Beautiful Highlights from the History of Landscape Read More …
Women in the Act of Painting is a terrific blog by Philadelphia painter Nancy Bea Miller that contains exactly what it says on the can. Miller features wonderful variety of periods and styles, gives background information on the artist — and where possible, the subject Read More …
Longtime Lines and Colors readers may have noticed my tendency to be cranky about art museums that are seemingly without clue in their approach to using their website to best advantage (though I take great delight in pointing out those who are using them well, Read More …
LeConte Stewart was an American painter active in the 20th Century who spent most of his life portraying the landscape of his native state of Utah. Stewart studied art at the University of Utah, but also traveled to the East Coast to study with established Read More …
When I was a teenager, I subscribed to a rather bizarre and eclectic experimental magazine called Avant Garde, published by Ralph Ginzburg. The value of its contents varied, but I remember one thing about it above all else — in one of the issues it Read More …