The reclusive painter rarely left Bologna – but he pored over pictures of faraway masterpieces in books and journals
Dutch artist Suzanne Jongmans creates photographs that echo the old masters, but with a modern twist: recycled plastics
A BU School of Medicine program brings future doctors to the Museum of Fine Arts to teach them how to observe more closely and think about what they see.
The London Old Master sales may not have included any blockbuster paintings, but sales were strong for works fresh to the market
(first posted 10/15/2017) I happened to find my way to Plan59.com, and decided to take an extended break at the truck stop there, as it was cold […]
a handful of people (and now growing in number) have been learning the ways of the Old Master painters. Lyubena Fox is one of them, this is what she is capable of at 22
The Pakistani American painter was inspired by Renaissance art, but his work took a powerful turn after he began to experiment with images of his friends, Calvin Tomkins writes.
View a gallery of concept art for the Star Wars Rebels episode "Rise of the Old Masters."
This book engages with some of history’s greatest art, from the spectacular theatrics of Bosch to the luminous scenes of Giotto, and starts with the idea that the art of the past can and should be seen from the viewpoint of a contemporary observer of visual culture—rather than just an elitist, academic interpretation. Ossian Ward’s simple, ten-step guide acts as an aid to looking at and breaking down the often obscure strategies of the Old Masters into intuitive categories—from Art as Honesty to Art as Vision. Just as contemporary art should be judged by how it moves us, cajoles our senses, and envelops us, so too can the great paintings of history be seen as immersive, captivating, and even participatory experiences. Look Again does not deny the specific complexities and barriers associated with looking at art from other eras, instead it offers methods that not only provide the viewer with the tools to interpret the art, but also assumes that we intuitively hold some of this knowledge within ourselves already.
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Photographer creates painterly masterpieces inspired by the old masters
Art always has some sense of place, whether it is the result of where it was created or the setting it is placed in, but art as a place can be something truly transporting that goes beyond installation to become a world unto itself. I've seen shades of this in two current shows, Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe's Stray Light Grey that subverts Marlborough Gallery into urban backrooms and Andrew Ohanesian's The House Party at Pierogi's Boiler Room that brings suburbia to Brooklyn, and even in the ongoing, heavily atmospheric theatre experience Sleep No More with its beautiful 1930s time travel. All of these have led me to think on one of the most engaging and curious of these kinds of art experiences: the Dennis Severs' House in London.
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Bid in-person or online for the upcoming auction: Old Master Paintings and Sculpture on 01 May 2019 at New York
The Lake Shore Limited comes up fast in Freedom Tunnel, racing up Manhattan from Pennsylvania Station along the old trackways of the Hudson River Railroad toward the Empire Connection, then on to Spuyten Duyvil and points north and west—Albany and Chicago. At 72nd Street, the passenger train appears momentarily through a chain-link fence, under the […]
I have a few books that, despite holding them in my hands, I seem unable to believe actually exist. One of these is a book I picked up at a flea market,
Art has arguably been around almost as long as humans have. The moment we learned to mark something for others to see and interpret, the moment art was
The collector has filled his Georgian townhouse in Kennington with Northern Renaissance paintings. But it’s no ivory tower, as we learn.
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