Gerhard Richter on Grey
Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. It has…
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Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel was a Prussian polymath (scientist, artist, physician, etc.) best known as a champion of evolutionary theory. He was a bit of a character (to put it lightly) and while many of his theories have been discredited such as “ontogeny…
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Gerhard Richter – October 18, 1977
Gerhard Richter is a German artist, best known as a painter, particularly oil on canvas. He’s been one of my favourites for years, and I’m not alone: at auction his work achieves higher prices than any other living artist, approximately…
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Stephan Balleux
Sometimes people talk about an artist being a “a painter’s painter”. This is a painter who really revels in painting itself, and whose work is more about actually painting than about making paintings “of” things. Stephan Balleux is like that….
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Happy Father’s Day – Max Ernst, “Pieta” or “Revolution by Night”
Happy Father’s Day! There is some irony in posting about Max Ernst’s portrait of his father in “Pieta” or “Revolution by Night” (1923). For one thing, Ernst thought his father was an idiot. Take it as you will, this definitive…
