Category: Paintings
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Wisdom & Folly — now in real paint!
With a large, wrapped canvas given as a birthday gift from my rockin’ wife, I have now begun to really work on Wisdom and Folly Cry Out to the Simple. Stage 1: Stage 2 (about a half hour later): The blue is there because I don’t actually know how to backlight something, and I wanted…
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The Prisoner, by Yaroshenko
Wow. The Prisoner, by Yaroshenko, is beautiful. But then I’m a sucker for some chiaroscuro. Memo to me: Go back to the Tretyakov at some point and see this. (via Art Inconnu)
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Explaining cubism with doodles
Here’s the best possible explanation of cubism I can offer. It’s looking at a subject (in this case, Picasso’s Guitar Player) through time, and from multiple directions. I’ve just picked out one or two of the things to look at in this painting… I’ll bet you can find lots more. (Hint: imagine you’re walking around…