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Claudia’s Collection

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Claudia, the Museworthy blogger, has posted “The Museworthy Art Show”, a collection of artwork by her regular readers and commenters.  One of my large-scale multi-figure drawings is included, a piece that hasn’t yet been seen on Drawing Life. This is a kind of group show I like.  The artists are diverse in media, style, approach, [...]

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Try, Try Again

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Last week I posted about the master of the “naked portrait”, Lucian Freud, who often spent hundreds of hours over a period of many months on a single painting.  Naked portraits are also among my practices, but I lack the patience to spend so much time laboring over a single image.  I feel my best [...]

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Freudian Analysis

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Lucian Freud, who just died on July 20, 2011, devoted his long career to painting figures and portraits from life, perfectly ignoring all the art-world trends of his era. Many of his images are of people and/or animals sleeping.  He always painted directly from live models, often friends or family members rather than professionals, and [...]

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Public Sculpture

Thursday, April 21, 2011

The wide variety of reactions I heard following my recent post on Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Gates got me thinking about public art, which can be highly controversial, but which also becomes such a part of the everyday environment that people stop noticing it, like that bum that’s always on that certain corner every time [...]

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Academic Figure Studies

Monday, April 11, 2011

The term “figure study” seems calculated to evoke pedagogical sobriety absent any whiff of lasciviousness.  Even the word “figure” suggests cogitation rather than concupiscence.  Representational artists have long found contemplation and analysis of the human body to be both an invaluable skill-building practice and a source of inspiration, but in the imagination of the general [...]

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