Art, glamorous as its image may seem, struggles to be taken seriously as an academic discipline in universities. Perhaps as a consequence, there is the constant Read More »
Posts Categorized: Art
Is Design Art? Is Food Art?
Just exactly what is art?
This is a question so Read More »
A Halloween Tale of Elegance – The Grotesque Fashion of the Rodarte Sisters
Driving north on the Pasadena Freeway, we would pass a cluster of old Victorian homes. One day, we noticed that a piece of Read More »
The Color Blue in Art & Life – Everything You Wanted to Know
It must have been a slow day in the New York Times when an article appeared that talks about the color blue. But, like Read More »
Are Museums Intimidating? First Impressions Count
…but I’d wager that the more appropriate adjectives for describing what reluctant museum-goers feel about museums include “boring,” “bewildering,” and “confusing,” because there isn’t enough way-finding information.
What is your experience of entering a large museum for the first time? Read More »
Fondation le Corbusier / Villa la Roche – A Lovely Walk in the 16th in Paris
La Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France (1950)
Einstein understands le Corbusier.
As one turns from Read More »
Le Cabanon le Corbusier – Relevant Today?
Entrance hall, le Cabanon in le Bon Marché
In 1949, le Corbusier, while vacationing in the south of France, sketched Read More »
Paul Schimmel and Sanford Biggers – Experience or Interpretation?
The artificial construction people make is that painting is not intellectual, and does not involve much thinking, but involves psychic or subconscious pressures which are released through the act of painting. But I think painting like mine shows obvious kinds of hesitation and reworking which people associate with thought. — Jasper Johns Read More »
My Father Is the Late Monet – Barnett Newman
My father is the late Monet and you don’t have one in the Museum of Modern Art Collection. *
Barnett Newman had Read More »
Allegheny Spring – Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater
Fallingwater, Pennsylvania (April, 2012)
Trip of a lifetime!
Wright had surprised, and occasionally tested Read More »