Author Archives: jolanta

Something spontaneous, easy, and fresh spreads out over the work of David Ostrowski, which amuses the viewer instantly. However, this limits and encompasses the viewer from seeing the richness that lies beyond his astonishing visual offerings. One might not recognize the double meaning in evident in his images/pictures. Nonetheless, the painter attempts to recognize what […]

The recent Gustave Courbet exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum (traveling from the Musée d’Orsay and Petit Palais, France) provides the public with a moment to reflect upon how Courbet’s approaches to crossing artistic boundaries led to innovative developments in art, painting, and the very notion of the artist. Ironically, this is most apparent by what […]