Christopher Volpe's Art Blog

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

Friday, March 29, 2013

Notes on Charles H. Woodbury

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Charles H. Woodbury, Breaking Wave I've been delving into the work and theories of  Charles H. Woodbury (1864-1940) , and the more I...
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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Cezanne's Magnificent Bathers, Part 1

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Cezanne, The Bathers (1898-1906) During the last 20 years of his his solitary life, isolated and immersed in his work, Paul Cezanne rei...
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Thursday, February 7, 2013

Sargent Watercolor Show Coming

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The Boston MFA and Brooklyn Museum are mounting a major exhibition of John Singer Sargent's exquisite watercolors this year. Santa...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Paintings About to Dissolve in Light

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Peter Doig, Reflection (What Does Your Soul Look Like) 1996 Recently, by chance it seems, I've stumbled over several paintings in ...
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Friday, January 25, 2013

Richard Serra on Becoming an Artist

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"When you become interested in the investigation of process, you aren’t concerned with the psychology of what you’re doing nor what it...
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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Why Does It Work?

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Wild Surf at Ogunquit by Edward Henry Potthast Here's a painting of the crashing surf and rocks in the small coastal town of Ogunqu...
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Thursday, November 8, 2012

On Rembrandt and the Inward in Art

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Odilon Redon, one of the great heroes of the mysterious in painting, thought of Rembrandt van Rijn as "the precursor of all deeply inwa...
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