narrative of the medium

Official : : It’s been a week since the votes are in, but here, we can all still learn through debate.... and, appreciate some fine art! Lets spend a few minutes and explore some of the finest artistic candidates in history: painting and content, not politics and rhetoric. I've included a few examples of how seeing other art encourages ones own growth- at least for me it has. Funny too, how although we may not have even seen the visual expression of another artist, we are su

Jackson Pollock Exhibition through May 1 Looking at this Jackson Pollock oil painting, one can easily see that he drew inspiration from Henri Matisse...the bright colors, linear vertical forms, use of black as color, and the confluence between figuration and abstraction. While reading the plaque at MoMA, it states that Pollock had been inspired by a retrospective of Matisse's work that Pollock would have seen at MoMA the previous year... A Colour Master inspires the drip Mast