There's a long tradition of wars with-- and about-- ink:  (The Ink Battle by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 1843) Ink has left a trail of rivalry, br...

  "To live is to war with trolls." -- Ibsen Anthropologists tell us that  primitive cultures believed art had supernatural propert...

I love Tomi Ungerer's drawing about the nature of men and women: The lines may appear light and slapdash on the surface, but the concept...

"To live is to war with trolls." -- Ibsen The United Nations Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exp...

When I first saw the ceilings of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, I was gobsmacked by their ornamentation -- nearly a hundred galleries dense...

 In my recent post admiring a painting of a tree, someone commented that artists have been drawing trees for 30,000 years, and suggested tha...

 I love this little study of a tree by Nathan Fowkes. Fowkes is renowned for his mastery of color but even in this simple grayscale sketch h...

Milton Avery (1893-1965) was famous for simplifying forms.  He refined and refined them in search of their poetic core. I love his painting ...