Painting Research

informal searching(s) and findings

Being Irascible, AbEx from MoMA, NYC

It is abit off putting and old fashioned, or more truthfully an indication of MoMA’s system (not the artist’s included?), to read the word  ’Masterpieces’ in the subtitle to the exhibition entitled Abstract Expressionist … Continue reading

June 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Romare Beardon – 1920s Renaissance

The Metropolitan Museum’s interactive web site Let’s Walk the Block, below, is all over this painting/collage by Romare Beardon, and Jazz from the 20s to today.  Do a search and … Continue reading

June 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Nuclear Fallout and Scientific Research

Watercolorist and scientific illustrator/painter has a website with research images of abnormalities in insects after the fact of Nuclear accidents and testing. Why paint, in this instance, when a photo … Continue reading

June 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Slippages & Sue Williams

 Sue Williams, With Polka Dots, 2009. Ink and acrylic on acetate, 39 1/4 x 50 inches. It’s a New Age, 1992. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 162.56 x 137.16 cm … Continue reading

June 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Art History, Media Literacy, and Van Gogh.

June 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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