Sketchbook #22: Cathy Diamond
To draw the forest is to study complex relationships. Below are a few of the direct studies Diamond has made that indirectly underlie and inform her complex and dynamic paintings. This is how she describes […]
To draw the forest is to study complex relationships. Below are a few of the direct studies Diamond has made that indirectly underlie and inform her complex and dynamic paintings. This is how she describes […]
“You can learn a lot of things from the flowers For especially in the month of June There’s a wealth of happiness and romance All in the golden afternoon” the song the flowers sing in […]
The first time Canova surprised me was in Berlin at the Bode Museum. I was looking at Female Dancer and a red train flew by in the adjacent window and suddenly I saw how beautiful […]
It occurred to me that Loren Munk’s paintings must take some planning and boy, was I right! For his ability to picture Time and Space in an ingenious, gorgeous way, he deserves a chapter in […]
I expected some dancing landscapes from Stephanie Pierce but instead she sent an intimate series of portraits of a day in the life of a man and a cat. Here is how she describes […]
I had always assumed Michele Araujo’s paintings were abstract but her recently published memoir To Begin made me wonder. Probably best to never assume. —CNQ See more of Araujo’s […]
Contemporary jester, Robert Egert allows us into his world for a minute. Don’t stay too long or you might get lost in there. This is how he describes the series: “Some time ago […]
I’ll let Nietzsche himself introduce these drawings: “To ‘give style’ to one’s character — a great and rare art! It is practiced by those who survey all the strengths and weaknesses that their nature has […]
Descarfino composes a delicate set of musical variations on the theme of a window that transport me to different places (some of which I’ve never been to and some of which seem eerily familiar): Moorish […]
It’s 1903, the very beginning of motion pictures and everything is already there: the violence, the sexploitation and the whole show is run by a couple of clowns—it’s delightful. The film starts with director Su […]
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