Christopher Volpe's Art Blog

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

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

On Presence: Notes on Painters' Painters

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Warning: Wayward philosophical-aesthetic ramblings ahead! When I've pondered the meaning of the phrase "a painter's painter...
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Thursday, September 30, 2021

The Curious Case of the Too-Talented Artist

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Robert Longo was once an art world rockstar. Alongside the likes of Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, and David Salle, he becam...
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Thursday, September 2, 2021

"Abstracting the Seacoast" at Discover Portsmouth

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Photo Credit: UNH “Abstracting the Seacoast” opens October 1, 2021 at the Discover Portsmouth Center (10 Middle St., Portsmouth NH). It...
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Friday, June 18, 2021

Emenations of Time and Eternity

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Shen Wei, Untitled No. 11, 2013, oil and acrylic on linen canvas, 82 x 211 inches Radical visions of existence, tumultuous, atmospheric, at ...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Redeeming Darkness: Notes on Resilience

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Any Human Thing #2 ("I promise nothing complete; for any human thing supposed to be complete must for that very reason infallibly be fa...
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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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