Painters on Paintings is a conversation between contemporary artists and their influences across time.
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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
Brenda Goodman on Her Work in Stages
There is something about feeling that rightness of a painting when I’m 75 that feels so very satisfying.
Lavar Munroe on Folkert De Jong and Expansive Painting
Evidence of deconstructing form and then “healing” those breaks was apparent in the yellow and pink adhesive substrates bleeding through the crevasses of incisions.
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