Reimagining Bruegel
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Kiša Lala interviews director Lech Majewski about his new film, The Mill and the Cross, where he seeks to recreate Bruegel’s paintings on film. Majewski notes that Bruegel “is a realist in looking at human conditions. He is a profound observer. I feel a lot of compassion in his paintings, a softening for Flanders and […]
Elizabeth Sheppell: Interview
Lynette Haggard interviews Atlanta-based painter Elizabeth Sheppell about her work and studio practice. Of her current work Sheppell explains: "I am working on a new series of paintings where I am pushing the boundary of the panels. The work is all about surfaces. I am enjoying working in thick layers and creating new shapes with […]
Clint Jukkala: In Conversation
[Video] Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy talk with painter Clint Jukkala at his exhibition of new paintings Even If and Especially When on view at Giampietro Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut through October 7, 2011.
Mira Schor: From the Nineties To Now
In the Fall 2011 issue of X-TRA, Mike Minelli reviews the exhibition Mira Schor: Paintings From The Nineties To Now at CB1 Gallery. Minelli writes: "For Schor, the surface of her paintings is a skin. Or to borrow a Lacanian phrase, a 'stadium' upon which subjectivity comes to be written by an ever-shifting series of […]
Jehangir Sabavala (1922 – 2011)
Debu Barve remembers painter Jehangir Sabavala: "One of the prominent figures from [the] Indian art scene." Barve describes Sabavala as a painter who was "known to work on his paintings for long hours… His style had a strong cubist influence perhaps inherited from his decade long academic stay in Europe in late 40s and early […]
Radical Bloomsbury
Dr. Janet McKenzie reviews the exhibition Radical Bloomsbury: The Art of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, 1905-1925 on view at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery through October 9, 2011. The exhibition, McKenzie writes, "seeks to re-evaluate the work of Duncan Grant (1885-1978) and Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) and their relationship with the avant-garde… Indeed, the Bloomsbury […]
John Martin’s Apocalyptic Vision
Jonathan Jones blogs about British painter John Martin whose "fascination with disaster… bore no relation to real Victorian life… The fears, or secret dark desires, of Martin and his contemporaries were rooted in imagination, not reality." According to Jones, Martin's work begs the question of whether "our own sense of impending disaster [is] just a […]
Neighborhood of Light
Levi Rubeck reviews the exhibition Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World at the Whitney Museum of Art on view through October 16, 2011. Rubeck writes: "…the growth and variety of [Feininger's] production serves as a fascinating take on art straddling creation for its own sake and the influence of the outside world… The […]
Will Barnet @ The National Academy
Roslyn Bernstein talks with Todd and Peter Barnet about their father, painter Will Barnet, in anticipation of his upcoming retrospective at the National Academy Museum. The sons vividly recount their childhood and note that their father, now 100, still paints daily. "Peter, the oldest at 72, Richard… who is 70, and Todd, now 68, would […]
Dorothea Rockburne: In Conversation
[VIDEO] Richard J. Goldstein interviews painter Dorothea Rockburne about her work on the occasion of the recent retrospective exhibition In My Mind's Eye at the Parrish Museum. Goldstein notes that "Rockburne told me that art history has shown her that all artists are bound to repeat themselves which is something she always eluded through her […]
Emily Gherard: Interview
Interview with painter Emily Gherard about her work and influences. Gherard says: "The painting or drawing begins with an idea of a particular form and how it might fit in the space of the painting but as the work continues what keeps me in the piece is manipulating the materials… I look for when the […]
Zbigniew Herbert on Dutch Painting
Altoon Sultan blogs about Polish poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert's essays on Dutch Golden Age Painting. Sultan writes: "Herbert takes us on a deep tour of Dutch 17th century painting in his 1991 book Still Life with a Bridle… he aims to write about Dutch 17th century painters in a down to earth way, not […]
Roger Medearis: Rediscovered
William Poundstone blogs about rediscovered American Regionalist painter Roger Medearis. Medearis, a student of Thomas Hart Benton, is the subject of an upcoming exhibition at The Huntington Library in San Marino, CA. Poundstone writes that after Regionalism gave way to Abstract Expressionism "Medearis donned suit and tie to get a real job with Container Corporation […]
Nathan Oliveira’s Final Visions
John Seed writes about Nathan Oliveira's last works which will be on view at John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco from September 8 – October 22, 2011. Seed notes: "In the last year and half of Oliveira's life, there were wonderful developments in the studio. 'The old Nathan came back,' says Joe Oliveira, 'the guy who […]
Julie Heffernan: Studio Visit
Christopher Joy and Zachary Keeting visit the studio of painter Julie Heffernan. Heffernan discusses how her early paintings evolved into her current work, her painting process, and the unique clarity she admires in old master paintings.
Carrie Moyer: Interview
Carrie Moyer discusses her career and work in an extensive interview with Phong Bui. Moyer notes: "…even though I am naturally more comfortable making big paintings, the smaller ones have been a way for me to get ideas out on the canvas without giving into my tendency to overwork the surface. I have been interested […]
Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape
L. St. James reviews the exhibition Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape on view at Tate Modern through September 11, 2011. St. James writes: "The thirteen rooms of the Tate's exhibit serve as testament to the artist's sensitivity to the world around him and as a reminder that even for a most revered Surrealist, 'the […]
Rome: Eternal City of Painting
Bob Duggan reviews the new book The History of Rome in Painting, edited by Maria Teresa Caracciolo and Roselyne de Ayala. Duggan writes: "… what I found most enlightening were the small wonders the team of specialists offered… Cimabue’s 'Ytalia' provides a bird’s eye view of Rome from the 13th century… Cimabue painted 'a political […]
Robert McCann: Subtext Sprawl
Christopher Lowrance blogs images from the exhibition Robert McCann: Subtext Sprawl at the University of Kansas' Art and Design Gallery, on view through September 15, 2011. McCann writes: "My most recent group of paintings began with ideas about how modern technology and science make it easier for people to be superstitious, and broader themes of […]
Filming Bruegel
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Andrea Kirsh reviews Lech Majewski’s The Mill and the Cross, a new biogrphical film about the artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Kirsh writes that “Majewski captures Bruegel’s truth that great events occur amidst the shapeless narrative of everyday life. Just as remarkable is the effect he creates of taking us into the actual space of […]