de Kooning’s Women
Tags/ Posted by Linnea WestDali, my darling, I've laid my wreath of wire at your floppy dial; calling you on the lobster phone, burning with love like giraffes.continue reading this poem
Here we have this Modern Master take a seated woman and transform her, again and again, taking her and painting her with more violence, as more monstrous, as less and less human until she merges with the picture plane itself.
The Beauty of Jugs, Water and Fruit
Tags/ Posted by Linnea Westi entered the sanctuary of your still life, driven by the mind i left twitching in the gutter.continue reading this poem
Our ability to appreciate life can be mediated by art, we can understand through art pieces of life that would otherwise seem senseless, and by extension aesthetic experience is a way of creating meaning in our lives.
Duy Huynh: A Magical Realist at the Crossroads of East and West
Tags/ Posted by Linnea WestI know this is not a confession, or a questionnaire, but it is like you are a letter I can't quite get out of the envelope.continue reading this poem
Suspend your disbelief. Artist Duy Huynh’s paintings require that you consider more with your heart than your head. Their magical realism trumps physical laws and their playful titles engage your sense of wonder
Julie Heffernan’s Constructions of Self
Tags/ Posted by Linnea WestHow did I come to feel nothing satisfies more than introspection?continue reading this poem
Julie Heffernan creates sensuous figurative paintings, like co-Yale MFAS, John Currin and Linda Yuskavage, but her luminous oils are patently unique among them and most working artists today. A Victorian impetus to conjoin, edging toward pastiche, creates artfully staged Surrealist environments. They avoid the mawkish or macabre by virtue of an evocative 17th century Baroque styling and the dignity with which she handles her primary subject, herself.
