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Lisa Hoke on Addie Herder

Lisa Hoke on Addie Herder

Dec 27, 2019 | Modern

Addie Herder, White Machine, Collage, 1961-65, 13 ½ x 19 inches, Photo courtesy of Pavel Zoubok Fine Art, NY I first saw Addie Herder’s work at Pavel Zoubok Gallery, then located on 23rd Street, in 2012. From that moment on, I was hooked. When considering a work of...
Suzanne Unrein on Henri Rousseau

Suzanne Unrein on Henri Rousseau

Nov 14, 2019 | Modern

Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897, Oil on canvas,  51 x 79 inches Rousseau’s The Sleeping Gypsy is a dream that will never wake up.  A fairy tale of time, as in Eternity. Done in the style of post-impressionist, gothic regionalism, but like a cockeyed Egyptian...
Lilian Day Thorpe on Nicolas de Staël

Lilian Day Thorpe on Nicolas de Staël

May 1, 2019 | Modern

Nicolas de Staël, Calais, 1954, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches At the time I was introduced to the Russian-French painter Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955), I was deriving most of my creative inspiration from artists of the Italian and Northern Renaissance. I felt...
Azita Moradkhani on Louise Bourgeois

Azita Moradkhani on Louise Bourgeois

Apr 7, 2019 | Contemporary, Modern

Louise Bourgeois, The Birth, 2007, Gouache on paper, 23 1/2 × 18 inches The word birth suggests a physical act, a material process, whereas creation engages the notion of manifesting something into the world without it necessarily connoting physicality. These...
Zorawar Sidhu on František Kupka

Zorawar Sidhu on František Kupka

Nov 28, 2018 | 18th-19th C., Modern

František Kupka, Planes by Colors: Large Nude, Oil on canvas, 1909-10, 59 ⅛” x 71 ⅛” Planes by Colors: Large Nude is František Kupka’s only surviving large scale figurative painting. Within a year of exhibiting it, he would never paint like this again, instead...