the painter’s act of looking

I just read this very interesting little text on Paul Cézanne by Blake Gopnik. Cézanne is said to be a painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. It has to do with his experimentation with…

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…