“The pain passes, but the beauty remains,” said Auguste Renoir…
Drawing
A spacetime grid is a visual diagram in physics to grasp a four-dimensional reality—three dimensions of space and one of time.
Leonardo Drew is the embodiment of form and content. His expansive personality explodes with associations and ebullience; so does his art. “Superadditive,” he calls it. There really don’t seem to…
![DEl Kathryn Barton [Australian b. 1972] the more than human love , 2025 Acrylic on French linen 78 3/4 x 137 3/4 inches 200 x 350 cm Framed dimensions: 79 7/8 x 139 inches 203 x 353 cm](/sites/default/files/styles/category_card_187x139/public/ab15211bartonthe-more-human-lovelg.jpg?itok=LJbNuU6F)
Acclaimed Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton (1972)– two-time winner of the Archibald Prize, the…
Summertime’s gardens have long inspired artists and botanists. Botanical illustration emerged around the time of Plato, more than 2,000 years ago. The medium launched not as a fine art, but as a…
Copying within the context of the art world has evolved over the centuries. What was once understood as a vital tool for study and learning is now often perceived, especially by laymen, as a kind of…
It was 1939, just two years after Picasso painted his anti-war…
Even though Dostoevsky’s drawings feel like a byproduct of his writing process and Plath’s more like an independent form of expression, both still seem linked to an abundance of creativity and the…
The newly expanded Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary in Virginia is a fitting showcase for …
In the Rotunda of the United States Capitol, a bronze bust of Dr. Martin Luther…
Santa Claus hasn’t always been the jolly, red-suited, grandfatherly gift-giver with a reindeer-drawn sleigh we all know. Here’s a look at how art has reflected the changing face (and waistline) of…
I graduated college in the early 1970s and wrote my Master’s thesis on Carlos Castaneda and Moksha as a form of Liberation. At that time, I was reading…
Fundamental to the art of William Kentridge is charcoal, a simple prehistoric medium that has long anchored his multi-disciplined, intellectually epic body of…
