Oct 9, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Make Love, Not Pictures Many years ago when I was teaching political science at the University of California, Santa Cruz, a young female student (who knew that I painted) asked me, “Is painting like making love”? Quite taken back by the question and not wanting to get...
Sep 19, 2011 | Uncategorized |
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The Rise And Fall Of The Almighty Brushstroke The Impressionists were simply the last wave of painters that finally broke the control over painting that aristocrats had held so tightly for hundreds of years. Count de Nieuwekerke, imperial director of the Beaux-Arts,...
Aug 10, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Lucian Freud, The Impressionists, And Following Your Bliss My undergraduate degree was in electrical engineering. I really had no desire to study engineering. But it was a field that my “advisors” seem to have thought was a good field to get into. It was 1965 and the...
