PAINTINGS are pictures made of paint. Anything painted on anything is a painting….all the way back to the scribblings of the “cave men” way back in the neolithic age on the walls of Altamira and Lascaux…in Spain and Southern France about 25,000 years ago.
A Painting Is A Real Thing Abstracts are not abstract. The Apple Dictionary describes abstract like this: 1) existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence: [...]
“To Paint or not to Paint—that is the question.” Whatever a person is to do in this life is paramount. Destiny is not a small matter. We came to realize something, and that something [...]
Tintoretto’s Genius Shut Me Up ! I have been absent from ART LOOK, though not absent from looking—or writing. I apologize, my dear readers, for this hiatus. My writing priorities were [...]
ICONS Recall A Familiar Face I would almost say I am an “Icon Painter,” in an age that would deem that label almost ridiculous. We live in a divisive age. Religious underpinnings are [...]
RALPH WOEHRMAN : Fire of Love as One of My Teachers I spent my early formative years studying Art at the Cleveland Institute of Art in University Circle of Cleveland, Ohio. It was a gray city. [...]
ON THIS DAY OF CHRIST’S EVE On this “Day of Christ’s Eve” I am reminded of my childhood memories with my good Mother, taking my sister and I to church on Christmas Eve. [...]
What stunned me was the presence of Napoleon as I passed the gallery! Dear Readers, we were home in DC for 2 days before coming Down Under to Australia. I was having an ART LOOK necessity. Other [...]
An Art Collection in Pasadena contains some great Art. Sondra and Jane and I went to see the Art Collection at the Norton Simon Museum of Art here in Pasadena last week. Norton Simon was an [...]
Sunday in Washington is Exquisite: Corot’s Women We had an Exquisite Day here in Washington two Sundays ago when we saw Corot’s Women at the National Gallery. But firstly, I [...]
My Kolorful Kinesthetic Version of the Last Supper. Looking toward the Old Masters has always been a way to infuse one’s work with new energy and vitality. There are wheels that do not need [...]