Painters on Paintings is a conversation between contemporary artists and their influences across time.
PoP Highlights
Sharon Horvath on Badal Mahal of Bundi Palace
A small painting: 12 inches wide by 16 inches high. Thin, lightly touched scrapes and dabs of paint in ochres, viridian greens, and a flurry of blues.
Barbara Takenaga on a Rajasthan Manuscript Page
I love this image. And have for many years. Actually, it’s less about one painting and more about a book of images. I chose this one at random.
Sarah Walker on Shiva Vishvarupa
Before I can grasp it with my mind, this painting has already saturated and immobilized me. What am I looking at? Not so much a painting as a force.
Recent Articles
Ruth Marten on Paul Caranicas
He’s condensed a mall into a theatre set, flattening the rich detail into a sort of Greek chorus to serve the dumb central gun shop.
Katie Miller on ‘Young Girl with a Dead Bird’
Pupils dilate when we are happy and contract when we are sad. Inky dilated pupils are attractive, which is why most portraits depict their sitter with sparkling black saucers.
Jane Irish on Karen Kilimnik’s Programme of Humour
She has a beautiful hand that is ruled by a fairy, but sometimes a demon gives her a stick to paint with.
Lilian Day Thorpe on Nicolas de Staël
Breaking the natural world down into its basic forms, the painting as a whole evokes a quiet hum.
Julian Kreimer on Andrea Belag’s Sunday Painter
The newest paintings convey a lot of those–the lightness that attends letting go, the playfulness and humor that comes when one is attentively waiting, waiting.
Azita Moradkhani on Louise Bourgeois
The tension between the bodies of mother and child builds up until the moment of physical separation with the delivery of a new entity in the world. Bourgeois depicts that moment using transparent skins of juicy crimson.