The discovery of a new painter is like the discovery of a new world “I would like someday to make a pilgrimage to Clos-Saint-Pierre, but only because the marvellous drawings of it by the Japanese painter Chuta Kimura so enchant my vision that I cannot take my eyes of them when I see them.” —…
Tag: Impressionism
Interior with Book
I have read several blog-posts on the American painter Richard Diebenkorn (1922-93) lately. At Catching Days, Thomas Larson writes very well about him in a post on writing. Much of the current writing on Diebenkorn is related to the ongoing exhibition Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966 (which I unfortunately will not get to see). The exhibition examines Diebenkorn’s…
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