Category Archives: SWIMMING IN ART

The “Chicago Picasso” in Daley Plaza, Chicago, IL. Up in the sky – it’s a Bird, no it’s an Afghan Dog, no it’s a Baboon! Seriously, what is it? It IS an abstracted Picasso sculpture of a Woman’s Head. Wouldn’t you be disappointed if a Picasso wasn’t slightly weird! As Mayor Daley said at the […]

“2020 LUNCHEON OF THE BOATING PARTY” by Jack Atkinson This Painting (Digital output art) was based on “Le déjeuner des canotiers” by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1881) now in The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.  (Reference art was the artist’s original photo, taken with the permission of the museum.) Sorry Pierre – This new painting was all done […]

Kusama’s pumpkins maybe her second most liked art subjects – but nothing can beat the lines of people waiting to get into one of her mirrored rooms, they are like walking into a different world. If art is an emotional connection, then emotion (maybe even love) is the reason so many people enjoy Yayoi Kusama’s […]

Picasso was the dominant art force of his time because he allowed his imagination to lead him. He once said… yes he makes ugly art sometimes, because he never knows what the art is going to be before he makes it! Other artist, when in that same state, have said, it was like they were […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: In this podcast, Marvin E. Newman (his mother put the “E” in his name to make it spell MEN just for good luck) talks about his long and exciting career as a photographer for Sports Illustrated, Time, Life & Look magazines, plus his fine art photography and his mindset/philosophy about taking great pictures. […]

The following 13 artists address race in a variety of ways through their work — some spark a dialogue in relation to the artistic cannon, others with gender roles, and some not explicitly at all. This article only shows 13 of the 30 in an exhibition at the Frist Center in Nashville a few years […]

Detail of Kenneth Branagh painted by Paul Davis.   PAUL DAVIS’ “POSTERS” – PUBLIC THEATER, NYC Last week, the Public Theatre turned the lobby of its Newman Theatre into a gallery showing an exhibition of their theatrical-posters by artist Paul Davis. For sixteen years his collaboration with the theatre’s founder, Joe Papp, put the promotional […]

Early Sunday Morning” by American Artist Edward Hopper 1930 – Oil on Canvas  60″ x 30″ In the permanent collection of The Whitney Museum of Art, NYC. “Early Sunday Morning” A Painting by Edward Hopper From time to time we enjoy looking closely at famous works of art in order to notice all of the […]

William Eggleston, Untitled, c. 1983-1986, Pigment print, 45 x 64 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches, edition of 1 of 2, 2AP, Signed in ink and numbered, David Zwirner Gallery, New York & London / davidzwirner.com   William Eggleston A man of few words, explores “democratic” color photography  (The mundane life surrounding us is filled with […]