Painters on Paintings is a conversation between contemporary artists and their influences across time.
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Barkley Hendricks on Louis Sloan
The snow would be waist high and the temperature freezing or below. Lou would be Eskimo-like…
Carolee Schneemann on Arthur B. Carles
How did I manage to get to the great museum on the parkway, perched like a castle above the two rivers?
Hilary Harkness on Henri Matisse
Gertrude Stein is as famous for her art collecting as she is for her writing. As an American living in Paris with her wife Alice B. Toklas…
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Mary Lucier on the Video Mysteries of Cecelia Condit
They depict a psychological violence resulting from a basic cold-heartedness in human nature.
Philip Pearlstein on Piero della Francesca
Yet it seemed to me to provide a kind of grammar of pictorial invention, parallel to the grammatical constructions of language that adventurous poets play with…
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…
Mark Greenwold on Jack Levine
Greenbergian Modernism… has put nails in the coffins of all sorts of serious and interesting representational artists for most of my lifetime.
Marc Handelman on Martin Johnson Heade
The jungle is gathered as a flat organization of space, folded, and pierced so as to connect multiple locations.
Rackstraw Downes on Hercules Segers at the MET
Once you get into his weird scale and murmuring color a whole world opens up.