Books
Hard Looking: Proust and Gauguin on Art
Gauguin’s art furthered the dematerialization of beauty that Proust discerned in Rembrandt's use of light by freeing color from form and drawing from realism.
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Art
Some Doritos with Your Goya? Old Master Still Lifes Get an Update
With a bit too much time on my hands and a subscription to Adobe Photoshop I have been playing with an idea: what will happen to traditional still life paintings when elements from contemporary life are grafted into them?
Art
The Existential Experience of a Chardin Still Life
Does drawing define, and color merely decorate? Or is drawing just the menu, and color the meal?
Art
The Private Language of Painting, Revealed in Artists’ Images of Their Studios
Gagosian has done it again: produced another museum-quality show, this one devoted to images of artists’ studios, as recorded in photographs (on view at its uptown gallery) and in paintings (installed at West 21st Street).