Featured Art: The Spiral Jetty By Robert Smithson
I was a late bloomer in coming across the work of Robert Smithson – I first saw some of his art at an Exhibition at the DIA five years ago and while living in New York City I tried very …
Category: Art and Design
Featured Art: Georgia O’Keeffe 1918 – Alfred Stieglitz
It’s the interplay between hands and eyes that I first fell in love with in this stunning and very famous image of Georgia O’Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz. I first saw this photograph at The Met Museum in New York and …
Featured Art: Mademoiselle Pogany – Constantin Brancusi
Constantin Brancusi created many beautiful pieces in his life. Many years ago at the MoMA in Manhattan I met one of them: Mademoiselle Pogany (1913) Bronze with black patina.
It sits like an object of desire and radiates like – …
Featured Art: Wheat Field With Cypresses – Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent is without question my favorite artist of all time. I was asleep to art until I saw his “Portrait Of The Artist, 1889” at the Musee D’Orsay in Paris in 1996. The painting moved with life-force even though it …
Featured Art: Ascension Of Eve – David Pearson
Wandering through the beautiful galleries on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, NM some years ago I found myself in an enchanting sculpture garden at the Patricia Carlisle Gallery. It was one of those places where you felt that if …
To Sell Art You Need A Great Story
This morning I had an interesting exchange on Twitter with artist Dustin Wallace. The discussion centered on the importance of your story as an artist as a marketing and selling tool and it got me thinking later how successfully …
Featured Art: Nancy & The Rubber Plant – Alice Neel
If you’ve never seen an Alice Neel portrait live you have not yet fully lived! Please enjoy the wonderful portrait of “Nancy and the Rubber Plant” and visit The Archive to see more of her amazing work.
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Featured Art: St Francis In Meditation – El Greco
I counted myself lucky to see an exhibition of El Greco’s work at the Met in New York a few years back. Generally I am not a fan of art from that time period but I found myself riveted to …
Michelangelo and The Sistine Chapel
Many years ago I read “The Agony and The Ecstacy” by Irving Stone. It’s a fabulous & powerful recounting of the life story of Michelangelo Buonarroti – an amazing reading journey which I think every artist should undertake at some …
The Impossible Polaroid Project
New company breathes life and vision into our Polaroid memories…
As a child growing up in Australia in the 1970’s my life was framed by polaroid moments. My Uncle worked as an engineer, traveling all over the world on big …