Category: Artists
Jason Boyd Kinsella
Picasso’s Blue Period
The strong should go ahead and take what they want: Such a quasi-Nietzschean maxim is dynamite in the head of an impressionable young person, and that is what Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) likely heard while in his late teens. Living in Barcelona, the most cosmopolitan city in Spain, the teenage student-painter hung out with a circle of avant-garde artists and writers who gathered at a local tavern, Els Quatre Gats (The Four Cats). Picasso’s biographer John Richardson argues that young Pablo absorbed Nietzschean ideas about the exalted role of the artist with consequences that would astonish the European art world. Read more here:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/picassos-blue-period/
How Septuagenarian Artist Scott Kahn Went From Living in His Cousin’s Attic to Selling Out Solo Shows in Just Three Years
Hyperallergic: A Century of the Artist’s Studio Is a Peek Into the Artist’s Mind
Hyperallergic: A Century of the Artist’s Studio Is a Peek Into the Artist’s Mind.
https://hyperallergic.com/722552/a-century-of-the-artists-studio-is-a-peek-into-the-artists-mind/
How Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” Continues to Inspire Artists
Muralist Noni Olabisi dies at 67
Muralist Noni Olabisi, whose art galvanized South Los Angeles communities, dies at 67
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-03-07/muralist-noni-olabisi-los-angeles-death
Noni Olabisi’s generosity and provocative work embodied “the power of art to transform and make real our stories,” as one collaborator remembers.
Works by Ukrainian Folk Artist Maria Prymachenko Reportedly Burned
McArthur Binion on How He Kept the Faith in Abstract Painting, Even When It Wasn’t Fashionable
Julian Schnabel: Self-Portraits of Others
Most of the twenty-five plate paintings by Julian Schnabel in this exhibition, produced between 2018-2020, were inspired by photographic sources and, especially, a cinematographic source—photo reproductions of well-known artworks, and particularly images of van Gogh paintings that appeared in the 2018 film At Eternity’s Gate. (more…)
