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...
On Squinting
I wanted to write a bit about the mechanics of painting; but even with the mechanics (or how-to’s), the purpose remains the same: in the exercise of our natural powers, we grow more powerful and are fulfilled. That is the source of the...
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, was besides...
Robert Hughes And The Cognoscenti
Robert Hughes is one of my favorite art critics. He’s Australian, and Americans might know him from his American Visions, which was a TV series on American art. In any case, he has written widely and is considered America’s most popular...
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 thinking was that with an...
Painting Is Not About The Freaking Product
“Ah, to live another 99 years, I’m just beginning to get the idea.” Titian on his deathbed “I think I'm at last beginning to understand something about it.” Renoir on his deathbed “All I can say is that painting is terribly...
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Bellagio, I Can See You
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