‘Good artists copy, great artists steal’ – Sturtevant at MoMA
‘Good artists copy, great artists steal’. An interesting article about the exhibition — Sturtevant: Double Trouble — that is on through February 22nd at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Here is a link to MoMA’s site … More…
How Wassily Kandinsky’s synaethesia changed art
How Wassily Kandinsky’s synaethesia changed art– This is very interesting … synaesthesia, a harmless condition that allows a person to appreciate sounds, colors or words with two or more senses simultaneously. In his case, colors and painted marks triggered particular sounds … More…
Sargent in Your Pocket: Tintypes the Next Thing in Fine Art Reproductions?
I think this article is pretty awesome… We recently had Eric Alexander Santoli in the gallery talking about a new take on reproductions: tintypes. Similar to the daguerreotype (the first form of photography) Eric and his friend Christopher- Calvin Pollard … More…
Famous Artists Send Greeting Cards at the Morgan Library
Famous Artists Send Greeting Cards – A prefect exhibit for the holiday season — “Handmade: Artists’ Holiday Cards from the Archives of American Art” at the Morgan Library in New York showcases nearly 60 holiday cards created by major modern and contemporary artists. … More…
Painting of the Day (AVAILABLE): Leon Perrault’s 1891 Paris Salon painting – “Le Reveil de l’Amour”
Le Reveil de l’Amour. Here is a great work that we just added to our web site by the 19th century French Academic artist Leon Perrault (1832 – 1908). Le Reveil de l’Amour was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1891 … More…