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Art School 99: Posted on Monday, December 24, 2012 4:39 PM
 Workshop"Colors of Snow"
"It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly." Claude Monet
On Sunday, January 6th Art School 99 will open its Winter season with a 9-tea-9 workshop "Colors of Snow". We will be using basics of color theory through reflections of painted snow and practicing different painting techniques that will help us to create effects of a falling snow, thick snow, white snow, etc. |
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Interview by Andrew M. Goldstein: Posted on Thursday, November 08, 2012 6:39 PM
 Guillermo Kuitca is a past master in the art of resistance, creating canvases that nimbly elude or confuse the traditional categories of painting. Often depicting spaces devoid of any human figures—but still containing their presence, as if the actors had just walked off the stage—his works range from photorealist studies to architectural plans to theater seating charts. (Theater is an obsession of Kuitca's.) Now, as the centerpiece of the grand reopening of its building, the Drawing Center is presenting a survey of the artist's |
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Posted on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 4:36 PM
 The academic painter Paul Delaroche is believed to have been the first of many to announce in 1839, that "from today, painting is dead". Photography's pictorial capacity threatened many of painting's most fundamental functions. Most of all, photography precipitated the long, on-going crisis of painting by challenging its capacity torepresent.A hundred and fifty years later, Gerhard Richter echoed Delaroche's response, this time with the benefit of hind-sight: "there is almost nothing left to say about photography because it is so obvious that photography has taken away one important part of painting: the function of portraying, depicting". |
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