PAINTINGS

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 [...]