Christopher Volpe's Art Blog

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

Friday, August 9, 2024

Painting is a Revelation of Being

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Albert Pinkham Ryder, The Canal , 1890, 19" x 25" “Painting isn’t about beauty.  Beauty is about consciousness.  Beauty i...
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Saturday, October 28, 2023

Vermeer's Geographer (an Enigma)

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Vermeer, The Geographer, 1662 The Mapmaker Vermeer's geographer goes on looking  out of the window at a world that ...
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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