Author Archives: jolanta
Natacha Kadhija
“It’s a work with clear surrealist references” Courtesy of the artist. Natacha Kadhijahttp://www.saatchionline.com/natachakk My latest painting, entitled “Stages”, is a quadryptic of almost five meters of width. The painting shows my interpretation of that subject, surrounding man and woman, with their relations to themselves and nature, since their birth, with their path […]
Katarina Ogard
“but in reality it is quite a realistic rendering of some rusty items, with these beautiful colors” Courtesy of the artist. Katarina Ogardwww.kataogard.com “A Map of Rust” is seemingly an abstract painting, but in reality it is quite a realistic rendering of some rusty items, with these beautiful colors, that I saw […]
Fiamma Morelli
“The painting of Fiamma Morelli is initially the embodiment of her half technical half expressive approach” Courtesy of the artist. Fiamma Morelliwww.fiammamorelli.it The painting of Fiamma Morelli is initially the embodiment of her half technical half expressive approach; and subsequently the search for overcoming the dualisms of light-shade, good-evil, realism-abstraction, visible-invisible. It […]
ASATILLA TESHEBAEV
“I share my feelings and emotions and do not spare anyone, including myself.” Courtesy of the artist. ASATILLA TESHEBAEVhttp://asattilla.funpic.de I am a global and cosmopolitan artist in spirit and I am interested in the perception of our rapidly changing reality. At the same time I am deeply committed to kyrgyz traditions: I […]
The Suspension of Time: Simon Dinnerstein & The Fulbright Triptych
Seeing an abundance of photographic details of a single painting (about 40) combined with the heft of this book (over 300 pages) led me to expect a typical art history, a formal and iconographical analysis focused on a single masterpiece. I was wrong. This is not to say that The Fulbright Triptych (1974) is or […]
The Cadaver and the Aging Woman
My body now is that of an aging woman. Its texture changes with time; the skin’s tightness loosens one inch at a time, its plumpness fading as a mirage that never was. My body is the body of a woman… For centuries, male painters have exalted the curves of the female body’s immaculate skin, gravity-balanced […]
In Conversation: John F. Moore, Jr. Interviews Juan Uslé
John F Moore, Jr: Tell us about your method. Are your paintings preconceived? Juan Uslé: I’d say that my paintings are partially planned and partially unplanned. When I start, there’s always a vision that’s parallel or prior to the work. But planning how it’s put together, that’s what changes with each painting. Sometimes my strategies […]
Charles Avery: Creating Parallel Universes
An erstwhile acquaintance of mine once asserted that if art doesn’t concern itself with presenting something beautiful to the world then artists have fallen to the level of bad philosophers. Does this suggest then, I wondered, that an artist producing beautiful work is automatically a good philosopher? Or does it imply that the only real […]
BRAZILIAN ROOTS IN PARIS EARTH: Radical Art from the Tropics
Henrique Oliveira is a Brazilian artist who has shown extensively in his home country and in the States, not in the typical art-scene cities but in places like Houston, Boulder, Washington, D.C., and New Orleans. His recent solo show in Paris, which is his first in Europe, has been a popular and critical success. Paris—no […]
The HANS Project: A Case Study, Re-examined
When Sigmund Freud published “Little Hans,” the first-ever psychoanalysis of a child, he elicited both worldwide accolades and condemnation for revealing the sexual lives of children. His 1909 case study branded Freud’s iconic reputation and laid the foundation for child psychoanalysis. In September 2011, writer/director David Pilot brought the historic case to the stage at […]
