George Tooker died last Sunday. Read the NYT obituary here.
Archive for March, 2011
George Tooker, RIP
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, george tooker, obituary, Painting, RIP on March 30, 2011| 1 Comment »
Narrative Figuration in Cincinnati
Posted in Painting on March 23, 2011| 5 Comments »
Narrative Figuration, opening March 25, includes the work of five Cincinnati-area painters: Robert Anderson, Daniel O’Connor (and here), Tim Parsley, Emil Robinson and Tina Tammaro. Curated by Daniel Brown. More info here.
Shown above: Emil Robinson, Man With Storage, oil on canvas, 60 x 50″, 2011.
Vivian Maier
Posted in Not Painting on March 21, 2011| 1 Comment »
Finding Vivian Maier: Chicago Street Photographer at the Chicago Cultural Center until April 3, 2011. More Vivian Maier. (more…)
James Elkins on the most beautiful painting in the world
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Art at Huffington Post, Giovanni Bellini, James Elkins, Painting on March 18, 2011| 7 Comments »
Over at Huffington Post, James Elkins writes about his pick for most beautiful painting in the world. There’s a moral to story, the typical Elkins anti-Aesop’s moral that comes in the form of a question, about the responsibility of scholarship. I’m sure that’s interesting to all of us, though it’s frankly hard to do anything other than just drool over the plentiful detail images accompanying the essay.
Two Coats of Paint on Tom Berding
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Painting, Tom Berding, Two Coats of Paint on March 17, 2011| 3 Comments »
Gabriel Laderman, RIP
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Artist, Gabriel Laderman, Painting on March 16, 2011| 2 Comments »
Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Art in Minnesota, Duke of Sutherlan, Lorenzo Lotto, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Art, National Gallery of Scotland, Painting, Tintoretto, Titian, Venetian Painting, Veronese on March 1, 2011| 2 Comments »
Diana and Actaeon, 1559
Diana and Callisto, 1556-1559
Both paintings included in “Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, until May 6, 2011.