John Constable (1776–1837) created landscapes that ranged from sketches with broad, loose strokes to highly polished and tightly rendered finished paintings. He would often arbitrarily end the painting process at any degree of finish in between. The four-by-six-foot painting The White Horse (1819), part of the Widener Collection at the National Gallery of Art, seemed…
Month: January 2015
dulwich picture gallery challenges art lovers to spot the fake
London gallery will hang replica by Chinese studio alongside genuine Old Masters and ask public to guess odd one out {via The Guardian, Maev Kennedy, Monday 12 January 2015} The Dulwich picture gallery is to set the public, and any art critics with the nerve, a potentially mortifying challenge. A £120 replica of a priceless painting,…
flesh of inspiration: reassessing rubens
In BBC Two documentary Rubens: An Extra Large Story, WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK sets out to correct the misconceptions that have arisen about the artist, whose vast and grandiose canvases seem too much for modern sensibilities. Here Waldemar writes for BBC Arts about making the show, and presents two exclusive clips on Rubens and his art, along…
why bill gates is commissioning fine art
Each year, about 6 million people die from diseases that are preventable with vaccines. And about 1 in 5 children around the world don’t have access to life-saving vaccines. But those are cold and dry statistics. {article by Susan Brink, NPR} The Art of Saving A Life enlisted more than 30 artists to create images…
alexander calder’s great-grandson talks to artsy about art + music
{article by: CHRISTINE KUAN | via: Artsy} Gryphon Rower-Upjohn is the great-grandson of the renowned artist Alexander Calder. The current exhibition “Alexander Calder: Avant-Garde in Motion” in Dusseldorf highlights the ground-breaking, yet often overlooked, experimental work in sound and music Calder did 20 years before John Cage. In this interview, I talk to Rower-Upjohn about why…
15 badass art world heroines over 70 years old
They came. They created. They conquered. The Huffington Post | By Priscilla Frank The following 15 women defeated the odds, inscribing their names in art history and forever changing its course. And what’s crazier is the fact that they kept doing it, over and over again, probably for longer than you’ve been alive. Behold, the…
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