Christopher Volpe's Art Blog

One artist/art historian's random take on the world's great paintings.

Saturday, April 9, 2016

The Humble Virtues of a Cup of Tea

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Here in New Hampshire, it's supposedly spring, but that doesn't mean it isn't the season for many warm cups of sweet, milky tea ...
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Monday, March 7, 2016

Spring and All (A Painting and a Poem)

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Spring and All , oil on canvas, 8" x 8" By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue  mottled...
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Sunday, February 21, 2016

Vermeer, a poem by Tomas Transtromer

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Note: In this poem, the late  Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer imagines Vermeer’s studio sharing a wall with an alehouse … the chaos on the a...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Art, Defined!

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Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers.... I don't think I'd ever want to ...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Albert Pinkham Ryder and the "ceaseless melody of the northern line"

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Albert Pinkham Ryder, Moonlit Cove , 1890 Albert Pinkham Ryder is one of several great 19th century American artists yet to become fam...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Just a Couple Good Paintings

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Vuillard Georges Rouault, Landscape with Red Sail, 1939. Oil on paper laid down on gauze, 19 3/4 x 33 Eric Aho, Sylvan, 50...
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Monday, September 14, 2015

Cezanne & Pissarro in Pontoise

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This morning I spent a fascinating hour or two contemplating images of paintings by Cezanne and Pissarro side by side, as they were when the...
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