Mark Tansey on Illustration
Mark Tansey is an American painter whose work is usually considered within the context of realist representationalism, but goes beyond that into a sort of hypercritical allegorical mode strongly informed by art history, philosophy, and art theory. I really enjoy the…
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Jill Hadley Hooper
I came across an intriguing image on Art Listings Professional by Jill Hadley Hooper. There’s something quite haunting about it. I’m reminded of the odd visual effect of seeing snow fall in front of a dark wall – against the sky,…
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Chuck Close – Francesco I
Chuck Close is a pretty interesting painter, insofar as most of his career has been about not being a painter in the traditional sense. When he was doing his MFA at Yale he was known for his excellent brushwork, so…
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James Rosenquist F-111
So hey, I’m back from New York! On an artistic level my visit to the MoMA was unquestionably the high point, not only because they have a number of my favourite modernist art works on display, but for the current…
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Dino Valls
Dino Valls is pretty intense. This self-taught Spanish artist was born in 1959 & completed a degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1982 … and gave it up to be a painter. His medium of choice is the notoriously difficult…
