Author: cparker
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Laura Knight
Dame Laura Johnson Knight was a popular British artist known for her paintings of dancers, gypsies and circus performers, her wartime reportage, and her iconic painting of the Nuremburg Trials (images above, second from bottom), which she attended. Knight also painted landscapes and wonderfully incisive portraits. Knight, born Laura Johnson, had a mother whose own…
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Karen X. Cheng learns to dance (and be a designer)
What does learning to dance in a year have to do with learning to draw or paint? A lot, I think. From Jason Kottke’s blog, I was introduced to this time compressed video of Karen Cheng learning to dance over the course of a year. She made the decision it was what she wanted to…
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Sarah Lamb
There are times, of course, when paintings can be arresting because of their color and drama; there are also times when paintings can be striking because of their subtleties. The refined, intimate still life paintings of Sara Lamb are a case in point. Lamb uses a muted palette, carefully controlled value contrasts and deft variation…
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Michael Sowa (update)
When I first wrote about the delightfully whimsical and decidedly off-kilter paintings of German artist Michael Sowa back in 2006, I had to refer readers to poster sites to view examples of his work. I still can’t find a dedicated web presence for Sowa — though there is a portfolio on the site of artists’…
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More on Sargent watercolors at the Brooklyn Museum
As I reported back in May (don’t say I didn’t give you advance notice on this one), there is a once-in-a-lifetime show of ninety-three of John Singer Sargent’s dazzling watercolors, supplemented with nine beautiful oils, at the Brooklyn Museum until July 28, 2013. The show then moves to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where…