Why Now? I have been publishing art reviews and critiques for almost a year now. I thought that it would be a good time to share my thoughts and ideas on how to write about art and art interpretation in particular: I have gathered some experience. I constantly make notes, even just in my [...]
This series enthrall me for what seems like an intentional obstruction and defocussing. Some of the grand pianos appear to float on a floor of haze, others are about to sink in waves of light. Either way, air and light, made conspicuously visible, act as a kind of a plate that presents the main dish, [...]
Sandra Flood is a self-taught artist living and working in the USA. She paints in a variety of genres; her figurative, abstract, still life and landscape pieces may be seen on her website and blog. Several stylistic features reminiscent of Edgar Degas, a proclaimed influence, may be traced in her artwork — but always filtered [...]
Andrea Kowch writes in her Mini Paintings blog about her impressions from some of these settings. She then channels them into visual descriptions. Several features distinguish the landscapes and outdoor scenes: reticent realistic palette; angles and slanting lines that accentuate the perspective and play a more symbolic role (see below) as well; joyful and vigorous [...]
The polished transcendental look of the magical realist pieces gives way to grittier coloring and more down to earth feel in the book covers. Here blue and gray tones do not symbolize or portend cold and hostility; they depict them as it is, or was — conceived in the authors’ minds. I haven’t read “The [...]
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