Author Archives: jolanta
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 […]
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GERMAN RODRIGUEZ RAMIREZ
“The artist while a creator, is a craftsman, because his technique is part of his signature.” Courtesy of the artist. GERMAN RODRIGUEZ RAMIREZhttp://www.german-rodriguez.fr/ Being an artist is not a profession, it is a way of life; one does not paint for the sake of painting but inner necessity. But this way of […]
BRUNO MORETTI SANLORANO
“they build a panoramic thrill of the vision of the soul” Courtesy of the artist. BRUNO MORETTI SANLORANOwww.brunomorettisanlorano.com In the reflections of this city’s lights, the colors have not a chromatic anarchy, but they build a panoramic thrill of the vision of the soul. “The artist spreads a capacity for suggesting vibrations, […]
Monica Dixon
“using figurative references to create moods and sensations” Courtesy of the artist. MONICA DIXON www.monicadixongallery.com I am an American painter and I have spent several years developing my work in Spain. In my contemporary figurative style, I am concerned with light. The lights and darks are my main expressive motivation. […]
Wataru Matsumura: Microcosms In Ink
It is often said of pictures that they open a window to another world. The images created by Japanese artist Wataru Matsumura construct their own worlds. Leon Battista Alberti made the window metaphor famous in the 15th century in relation to the use of perspective, but Matsumura’s drawings make no use of this device. They […]
