Tony Robbin on Bonnard’s Bathers

Tony Robbin on Bonnard’s Bathers

Pierre Bonnard, Nude in an Interior, 1912-14, Oil on Canvas, 134 x 69 cm It is often said that Pierre Bonnard’s paintings featuring bathers are intimate works, as the women are caught unawares, glimpsed in unguarded and private moments. But intimacy implies access....
Tony Robbin on the Painter of Pech Merle

Tony Robbin on the Painter of Pech Merle

Pech Merle Cave, 25,000 BCE, Village of de Cabrerets, Lot county, France 25,000 years ago an artist who looked a lot like you and me (except without the haircut and the Uniqlo clothes) climbed down 150 feet below the surface of what is now called France, wending...
Tony Robbin on Joyce Kozloff

Tony Robbin on Joyce Kozloff

Joyce Kozloff, If I Were an Astronomer (Tasman), 2014, Mixed media on canvas, 72 x 54 inches Joyce Kozloff’s If I Were an Astronomer (Tasman), 2014, has a magical, rich, nocturnal silver-blue light that unifies the work and allows an exuberance of imagery to be seen...
Tony Robbin on Claude Monet

Tony Robbin on Claude Monet

Claude Monet, The Water Lilies – The Clouds, 1920-1926, Oil on canvas, 78 3/4 x 502 inches It is rare, and always impressive, when an older artist turns a winter’s passion into a new body of work. If we knew Michelangelo Buonarroti only from his work after 74...
Joyce Kozloff on Miriam Schapiro

Joyce Kozloff on Miriam Schapiro

Miriam Schapiro with Black Bolero (behind) and Azerbaijani Fan (below) Among Miriam Schapiro’s works, the black paintings are my favorites. Although she often used color ecstatically, I never felt it came to her easily. In these works, it was not an issue: they are...