Artist Writings — Page 3

Simon Carr reviews Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery at The Frick Collection, New York, on view through February 15, 2014. Carr writes that the show "is a feast... in this small yet broad selection of jewels from Scotland, the standouts are canvases by Antoine Watteau, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough and John Singer Sargent... For

Painter Dana Gordon pens a recollection of working as a studio assistant to Tony Smith and George Sugarman in the late 1960s.

On the occasion of his upcoming exhibition at Prince Street Gallery, New York ( July 29 - August 16), Larry Groff writes about his new paintings and his career as a painter. Groff notes: "To me great landscape painting is abstract painting that also has a structure and is intrinsically bound to certain visual restrictions.

Vonn Sumner writes about the work of Wayne Thiebaud on the occasion of the exhibition Wayne Thiebaud: American Memories at the Laguna Art Museum, on view through June 1, 2014. Sumner observes: "The more traditional and honest Thiebaud tries to be, the more radical his work becomes. In this age of ever-shortening attention spans, he

Cezanne himself was right in maintaining, “We are all derived from Pissarro.”

In part two of his series of essays titled Untethered (part one is here), Mark Stone looks back to how the cubism of Picasso and Braque paved the way for abstraction by creating an art that could bridge the history of painting and the rapid technological advancement of the early 20th century. Stone writes: "Abstraction

A new book unearths a lost primary source, penned by a significant artist, one that sheds first-person light on some of the most iconic artists of the New York School.

Andy Parkinson blogs about the exhibition New Possibilities: Abstract Paintings from the Seventies at The Piper Gallery, on view through December 21, 2012. Parkinson writes: "In the seventies abstract painting in Britain was in crisis. At least that’s how it seemed to some. If during the sixties it had become hegemonic that privileged position was

Painter Kim Sloane writes about the exhibition Ruth Miller: Recent Work at Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, on view through November 12, 2011. Sloane writes that "The paintings display a mastery of color... and the ability to combine and structure pictures through both drawing and color... The elevation in Miller’s painting is achieved through this

Alex Cohen muses on Stanley Spencer's painting The Builders, 1935. Cohen writes: "Spencer was a master at elevating ordinary acts into deeply emotive and even divine experiences. By letting his compassion for ordinariness spill from masonry to the secret lives of birds he expanded the idea of home. Illustrating the bird’s perspective alongside the builders

“Gabriel Laderman on Art,” represents the best of what blogging can be – personal, thoughtful reflections and opinions based in real experience.

Larry Groff blogs images from a "a rare show in Alba, Italy of Giorgio Morandi's Landscapes where some 70 landscape paintings were shown." In addition to the landscape paintings, Groff also includes an interesting image of Morandi's view finder. Giorgio Morandi: The Essence of Landscape, curated by Maria Cristina Bandera was on view at the