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Repository 195: Great Landscape Art | The Unicorn of Contemporary Genres
Years ago while studying in Italy I had an assignment to paint a landscape over the course of a week. I dutifully packed my equipment and took a bus to some random hilly spot in Sienna. I remember sitting on the hillside, earnestly attempting an al fresco painting that lay before me. I spent hours at that spot, attempting to address and define the rows of olive trees, the variations of green and the utter beauty of it all. At…
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Repository 165: Albert York | A Painter’s Painter
A short post before exiting this fast and furious year. As I prepare to return in earnest to the studio, and not in the form of paper mache or glue gun art, I am currently doing research on Albert York, whose work I have been obsessed with for the past month or so. A post-humous show of 37 of his small paintings was just taken down in NYC’s Matthew Marks gallery. The following is from a New Yorker article from 1995….
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