Painters' Table Blog

Lucian Freud looked. He looked with an unmatched intensity, a kind of scrutiny of which only a painter is capable.

The death of Cy Twombly is a shock, not only because he was one of the greatest living painters but because he was a contemporary.

In Charline Von Heyl's recent Hammer Lecture at UCLA she acknowledges a wide range of visual influences from Kirchner's prints to the graphic qualities of Pueblo pottery.

March 2011 featured many wonderful painting blog posts on diverse topics ranging from hard-edged abstraction to the Danish Golden age of figure painting.

In New York, in February 2011, the diverse possibilities of painting are alive and filling the galleries and museums.