Author Archives: jolanta
Kristians Brekte
Painting Time Waits For No One is a symbolic work that shows the human struggle with mortality and never-ending youth. If you choose to live your life in fear of death to come, you may be dead already. This painting displays the scene which is so often shown in television and magazines; stories of perfectly […]
Joy Moore
I am primarily a landscape painter. My work is about my response to the colour, space, and light in the landscape. I aim to paint the power and the spirit of the landscape, not the view of it. I am inspired by the dominance of nature over man: found in the drama of my nearby […]
John Christie
As long as humanity breathes, art grows in new directions. Art is a necessary element for the cultural development of man. I am considered a skilled creator, but being a master means devotion to the origin of spirit and through art, bridge the gap between this world and eternity. That is the reason why painting seems to […]
Layered Language: The Paintings of Mark Moffett
By Rose Hobart Layered, transparent, mesmerizing—these are the qualities that are most present in Mark Moffett’s new encaustic paintings. Recently showing at Broadway Gallery, NYC, Moffett’s paintings are some of the most challenging pieces on view as they navigate the line between figuration and abstraction. The three pieces being exhibited are built up, glaze upon […]
Jonny Briggs
In search of lost parts of my childhood I long to reconnect with my uninhibited childhood self… Jonny Briggs In search of lost parts of my childhood I long to reconnect with my uninhibited childhood self…Thinking outside of the reality I was socialized into, I reference the discovery of myself as an individual within […]
Art Meets Nature at the American Museum of Natural History
Less well known are the exquisitely rendered spider drawings of French artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916) which takes on a friendly anthropomorphic view of the spider. In Smiling, an 1881 lithograph described by J.K. Huysmans in his classic novel of decadence A Rebours (1884) – translated Against Nature – a grinning spider, with ten legs rather […]
Narcissism In Black
The painted “Narcissus”, attributed to Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio ca 1599, is the focal image of Francine LeClercq’s installation, whereas the erring gaze of Narcissus, the visual echo reverberating between the illusionistic picture plane and the actual gallery setting, the existential reciprocity between the subject and object, form and content,… are parallel notions and traits […]
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012
Kochi-Muziris Biennale | December 12 – March 13, 2013 Preparations for Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012, the largest international contemporary art event ever to take place in India, are underway thanks to collaboration between artists, Government, private art patrons and international cultural organisations. Artists are travelling to Kochi, Kerala, from across India and the globe to […]
Diana Chelaru
In my work, I always emphasize the color as a significant and unifying element. I try to find a delicate balance between reality and ideas, combining elements of the real world with new, imagined techniques. dianachelaru.com *** This article was published by NY Arts Magazine, 2011. NY Arts Magazine is published by Abraham Lubelski. Sponsored […]
DOCUMENTA-MENTAL
dOCUMENTA 13 was extensive and manifold in its vision. The emphasis was not on “art” per se but on the act of creation in its myriad forms. dOCUMENTA is held every four or five years in the out-of-the-way German city of Kassel. dOCUMENTA 13 was ambitious in its scope both in content and geographical spread. […]
