Painters on Paintings is a conversation between contemporary artists and their influences across time.
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Elizabeth Huey on Fra Angelico
The predella panel of Fra Angelico’s Perugia Altarpiece envisions the humble yet heroic life of Saint Nicholas, also known as Nicholas the Wonderworker.
Ellen Harvey on Rogier Van der Weyden
This rather battered old reproduction hangs in my studio. I’ve owned it since I was five, which is when I first and last saw the original.
Lisa Corinne Davis on Niccolo di Pietro
Niccolo di Pietro, Saint Ursula and Her Maidens, ca. 1410, Tempera and gold on wood, 37 x 31 inches I love stories. I have always loved them more in pictures than in words -- narrative events shown rather than told. All paintings tell stories. Perhaps it is the core...
Recent Articles
Constance Mallinson on Manet’s and von Werefkin’s Ragpickers
Few previous painters were capable of challenging and disturbing the consumerist mentality and self-satisfaction of the middle class and the economic and social systems that sustained them.
Wendy Letven on Simona Prives
The alchemy of using a fragment of a scan of parsley to represent a forest was a revelation.
Laurie Hogin on Grant Wood
The readmission of artists like Grant Wood into high art discourses may open the door to many more types of representation, inclusive of many more places, lives, and subjectivities.
Zorawar Sidhu on František Kupka
Within a year of exhibiting it, he would never paint like this again
Eric Fischl on Max Beckmann’s Departure
The woman and man are eternally bound in a psychopathologically perverse interpretation of yin and yang.
Dear Weather: Buzz Spector on Hobbema, Gainsbourough, & Vermeer
Little popcorn puffs or higher, more distant, cirrus… a shorthand for how the duration of a painting allows for some time.