PAINTINGS

Pictures That Talk & Words That Paint A Picture There are written languages, past and present, that are less phonetically oriented and more pictographic in their appearance and usage. The [...]

Attention Finds Beauty Everywhere In The Age of Images The iPhone has revolutionized picture taking. I have nearly 30,000 images now stored up in my 3” x 6” “smart phone,” and about 3000 Videos. [...]

(In the Winter of Our Discontent) This is Markus. Ususally I write my ART LOOK posts on my Website here: MarkusRay.com/Art-Look . The last post I titled “What Do You See?” It was about [...]

A Painting Pilgramage A couple years back we found ourselves in Amsterdam with the good fortune of tickets to the Vermeer Retrospective exhibit at the Rijksmuseum. I wrote an ART LOOK on it, [...]

The Stars Aligned Somehow the stars aligned and I was able to get myself to Bilbao to see the Guggenheim. I am not going to say it was on my “bucket list.” That implies a place you [...]

A Walk Through Rothko’s Works on Paper I took one of my Art Look walks today. In 33 minutes I arrived at the gates of the National Gallery of Art, East Wing. I went there to see the works [...]

Albrecht Dürer Shaped My Sensibility I was 17 or so in 1971, 500 years exactly after the birth of Albrecht Dürer. I grew up in Mount Vernon, a small town named after George Washington’s [...]

In My Own Back Yard I am particularly fond of the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art, which is a 33 minute walk from my front door. Essentially it is in “my own back yard.” The [...]

In the Best Bookstore in the World As you all know from my last commentary I am in Love with Estonia. There are many reasons. One is that the best bookstore in the world is in Tallinn, and Sondra [...]

Ten Days in Tallinn Sondra and I were in Estonia for ten days at the end of our European Tour. Tallinn is one of our favorite cities in Europe, mainly because it has preserved its “Olde [...]