The Modern Art movement was dominated by abstraction; however, now there is an abundance of representational painters who are looking back, before Modernism, for inspiration. People all over the world are hungry for high-quality artwork with technical mastery and heartfelt content that reflects today's concerns. This is evident in Odd...
"Portrait of Edouard and Marie-Loise Pailleron" John Singer Sargent I love this painting. I remember looking at it before in my book of Sargent's work, but I didn't remember such saturated colors. I didn't remember the rich colors because the reproduction was in black and white! I am amazed by how...
I am only beginning to understand what defines a Kitsch painter. When I first realized Odd Nerdrum defined himself as one, I was bewildered. When I think of kitsch, I think of the kitschy postcard I bought in the south of France in the 90's. My friends and I...
"I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious." ~ Andrew Wyeth I can relate to Wyeth's art because I probably paint for some of the same reasons he did. I usually think of ideas for my paintings when I am walking...
by William Harris "Color cannot stand alone; it cannot dispense with boundaries of some kind. A never-ending extent of red can only be seen in the mind; when the word red is heard, the color is evoked without definite boundaries. If such are necessary they have deliberately to be imagined. But...
I found this article on Vincent Desiderio in The New York Times. Marlborough Gallery ''Cockaigne, 1993-2003'' A 10-Year-Long Art History Course By MIA FINEMAN In Vincent Desiderio's ambitious new painting, "Cockaigne," six centuries of Western art lie scattered on the floor like the remains of a really great party. A virtuoso representational painter known for...