Painting Russian Royals in the Eighteenth Century
Tags/ Posted by Stephen PainWhat season is it, Cy, when all the birds get dragged backcontinue reading this poem
Undoubtedly, the court, which delighted in what we call “bling” today, would prefer the portrait by van Loo, who fulfilled everything required of him. He kowtowed to convention in style and beauty, and painted what a princess should look like.
Hieronymus Bosch – A Window on God’s Creation
Tags/ Posted by Tony ThomasI like to hear what Wordsworth ate: suet, chops, potatoes – he was never well but trod the miles dejected while his sister bakedcontinue reading this poem
Bosch eschewed the Italian emphasis on linear perspective and anatomical study in favour of his own version of space impregnated with spiritual or numinous force.
Dali and the Stage of Surrealism
Tags/ Posted by Mark KerstetterShe guesses a bee can fly five thousand miles in one day and even though everyone playing trivia at the family table says she can change her answer, Mom sticks to it.continue reading this poem
At a certain point in his life as an artist, Salvador Dali fused two modes of painting that at first glance appear to be incompatible.
Darcilio Lima – Artist, Prophet, Time Traveler
Tags/ Posted by Teia PearsonNoon. A dry martini at the beach bar, a man swizzles his ‘stache. Bond. Jaime Bond, he says. I’m stalled out by the pool watching birds shit on lounge chairs.continue reading this poem
We are immediately drawn to a group of weirdly frightening and strangely beautiful engravings and pen-and-ink drawings depicting winged, feathered and scaled creatures, shamans and crowned goddesses, erotic beauty-and-beast scenes, Bosch-ian aspects of hell, Dali-esque apocalypses.
