Markus Ray’s “Art Look”

… an art lover’s companion.

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VERMEER IN AMSTERDAM

What I Love About Vermeer We started our European tour in Amsterdam. We arrived there two weeks ago, and I cannot remember an easier hop over the great water to Europe. We were met by our friend Monique at Schiphol Airport, who took us to our apartment in the center of Amsterdam at De Hallen. [...]

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ANDREW WYETH—LOVE BEYOND MEASURE

A Master of a Different Medium I was never into Andrew Wyeth, any more than I aspired toward Norman Rockwell. Neither formed my standard in art toward whom I would copy and emulate. Rockwell was an illustrator of Americana scenes in the Saturday Evening Post. Andrew Wyeth was considered more of [...]

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About Seeing

This is a commentary “About Seeing.” As an artist, it is one of my principle actions in life—to look. And what is it I see? As a painter this involves a translation into a very specific and rarefied picture plane, using paint or charcoal or what have you, onto a window of expression [...]

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VAN GOGH EXTRAVAGANZA

A Virtual Immersion On Christmas Day a friend of ours came for dinner, and afterwards we drove up to a shopping center in Northeast Washington DC to see a virtual Van Gogh exhibit that was billed as an “interactive immersion.” I have no idea what we paid to get in, as our friend had [...]

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NORTHLAND OF VIKINGS

We are up here in Iceland, where, on this “Nordic Hawaii” of volcanic action, I have been contemplating Viking Art. My mind is vaguely recalling the intertwining tracery of intricate woven patterns of geometry, intermixed with simple animal and human figurines making various [...]

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A PAINTER’S LIFE; MODIGLIANI

PASSION FOR THE FEMALE FORM Almost all of Modigliani’s greatest works are of the female form. His portraits of figures elongated and simplified are his hallmark, especially elongated necks in his portraits. But what distinguishes his work mostly is an unrelenting passion for Life, and a [...]

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