Today’s theme is work. Lot’s of it. I’ve just accepted a full time (plus!) job, and will be posting less frequently, at least for the foreseeable future. I hope that you will continue exploring art, and let me know about works you find engaging. Dig through the archives if you haven’t been reading along every…
Hello young man. I see you are staring me down. How can I help you? Oh, you are looking over there, sorry to interrupt. Here let me get out of your way. What—is here not a good place? No? oh. um….how about…. There. is that better? Whew! For a minute, I was concerned. You were…
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Emile Bernard. Never heard of him, you say? Me neither (well, until I went to the MFAH recently). But doesn’t he seem fascinating? There he is, staring off into the distance, red hair framing a serious expression. He was painted by his friend, Emile Schuffenecker. The odd diagonal lines and bits…
“I like that art we jumped through. It tickled me!” proclaimed one of my three year old sons when asked about the art we saw recently at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. His twin promptly chimed in “it tickled me!” We went to the MFAH to view Jesús Rafael Soto’s Houston Penetrable. This is…
Disappointment is the theme for today. As in, I was disappointed with my trip to the Georgia O’Keefe Museum. Also, I was concerned about my sick grandfather, and disappointed that my mother was unable to join us because she had gone to be with him. Here is what I knew about O’Keefe prior to my…
Hello fellow art explorers! This week we have a guest writer, my friend Ingrid. She has a blog of her own, Manifaustin, which I’d invite you check out. I’ll be back next week, hopefully with some insights gleaned from my upcoming visit to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Ladies and gents, here’s Ingrid: Who creates ten different…
Typically when I see a still life, I think, “oh look. A still life with ____”. Fill in the blank with the usual: fruit, flowers, dishes, whatever. The title of this is “Still Life with Golden Bream”, so per my usual, I’d expect to look at it and casually say, “oh look. A still life…
Childlike exuberance and freedom to do whatever feels good—these are things I feel when I look at this week’s selection. I’ve been meaning for quite a while now to talk about Fauvism. Qu’est-ce que c’est le fauvisme? I’m so glad you asked! Fauvism is color! Well, that is an oversimplification, but to be honest, it…
This past Sunday my mom and I did the art version of a pub crawl—visiting over a dozen homes and workshops of local Austin artists. I hope to hit up a few more stops this coming weekend, all part of WEST, the third annual West Austin Studio Tour. I remember driving around town thirteen years…
Allow me to indulge in the obvious for just a moment: I tend to like art that makes me smile. Mind blowing, I know, especially since we’ve looked at some humorous work together before, here and here. But there is something so appealing about art that inspires grinning. Magritte’s Clairvoyance does this for me. See?…
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