Christopher Volpe's Art Blog

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

Monday, March 8, 2021

Reading the Sexual and Social Dynamics in Degas' Compositions

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It's no secret to art historians and discerning viewers that Degas did not make pretty pictures of ballerinas. His paintings of the ball...
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Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Hayley Barker: The World as Ecstatic Mystery

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In “The Grass is Blue,” a series of paintings by Hayley Barker that just closed at SHRINE gallery in New York, nature is captured in colors ...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Painting the Woods with Deborah Paris

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“We can paint any number of things. But finding the things we were meant to paint is what we are after. Each of us must find our own country...
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Sunday, February 16, 2020

Helen Booth: Life, Death, Memory, and Paint

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I first fell in love with Helen Booth's very moody abstract landscapes - dark visions of stark lights, half-shadows, and void-black sp...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Cat Balco's Exploding Stars in NYC

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The sparks fly at Cat Balco's solo show  My Exploding Stars at Rick Wester Fine Art in New York through January 25, 2020. Cat...
Monday, October 21, 2019

All Things Bright and Beautiful - Pollock, Bloom & Grosse at the MFA

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The Boston Museum of Fine Arts is offering a rare opportunity to see some of the essential aspects of  modern painting laid bare, as if unde...
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