ILLUSTRATION ART
Sunday, January 25, 2009

STERLING HUNDLEY

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I like the kind of art where you can tell that the artist has a pulse. This passionate image by Sterling Hundley for the Lyric Opera of Kan...
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Friday, January 16, 2009

ANDREW WYETH, ABSTRACT PAINTER

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This week we lost Andrew Wyeth (1917 - 2009), noted abstract expressionist painter. A formidable artistic source, his work was comparable to...
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Monday, January 12, 2009

PASSING THE TORCH

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The illustrations of William A. Smith capture the mood of his era. I especially like the gritty, urban paintings he did in the 1940s and 1...
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Friday, January 02, 2009

CALCULATING THE MARKET PRICE FOR BEAUTY

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I consider  Adrian Gottlieb  one of the finest young figurative painters working in the classical tradition today. His timeless work spe...
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Saturday, December 27, 2008

THE END OF 2008

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George Bellows 2008 was a rough year for the type of assets that are vulnerable to market fluctuations. 40% of the value of the US stock mar...
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Thursday, December 18, 2008

WILLIAM APATOFF

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He was born and raised in the slums of Boston, the son of Russian immigrants. When he was still a boy, his father died, leaving Apatoff the ...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

THE NAKEDNESS OF GOYA

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The world has gossiped for 200 years about Goya's twin paintings of the Maja -- one with clothes and one without. When the secret nude p...
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Sunday, December 07, 2008

ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 23

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God, I love comics.  This cover from a 1940 comic book is not so much a drawing as a riot of the themes inside the heart of an adolescent bo...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

LORADO TAFT'S FOUNTAIN OF TIME

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Artists always dream of creating works of permanence. Perhaps they hope that "timeless" art will help them live on past their deat...
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