Painters on Paintings is a conversation between contemporary artists and their influences across time.
Art in Isolation
We are starting an ‘Art in Isolation’ series. Please share your thoughts on art during this time. Here are some of mine.
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Altoon Sultan on Piero di Cosimo
There I was, standing in front of this beautiful, tender, poignant painting, unable to stop weeping.
David Reed on Caravaggio: Whirlpool – The Martyrdom of St. Ursula
The strange pattern of forms that now obsessed me implied a resolution of that split in consciousness between St. Ursula’s and Caravaggio’s portrait…
Jenny Lynn McNutt on The Duende of El Greco’s Laocoon
Stretch, a moment, a hide taut between threads and wind the threads around a wooden frame. Stitch this skin, recently nestled over sinew and muscle and organ and bone…
Recent Articles
Judy Glantzman on Obituaries and Shadows | Art in Isolation
I have been painting portraits from obituaries on poured plaster/acrylic plaques since the pandemic began.
Letters from Helen O’Leary | Art in Isolation
While googling ‘how to fertilize tree peonies and will they grow in the shade’ I for a minute linger on the Washington Post main page and get enough in two seconds to know the world is bad.
Like a Brain Scan: Amy Myers on April Gornik
You experience the light through cumulus night clouds that gather then disperse within minutes, light ricocheting in groves of trees.
Norm Paris on Max Ernst
This is a portrait of a culture in the late stages of psychic rot.
Haley Josephs on Alice Neel
I felt the awkward little girl in me stirring, a sense of vulnerability recognized and transformed into a different kind of power by this painting.
Raoul Middleman on the Master of the Osservanza Triptych of St. Anthony
Their separate egos are hereby erased when the two saints conjoin in an embrace, which echoes the cave behind them, a cosmic hug of sorts, clinching the final humanistic coda of this panel.