“Talk in the M.U.D.” started this fall to explore, quite simply, why artists care about the things that they do, and why we should- or shouldn’t care. It’s free and open to the public.
Pit-fired stoneware vessels, Dean Dunkel
Trying to wrestle the mythic, transformative “power of art” to the ground in casual conversational terms is the [...]
“Impressionism as a technique devoted to capturing the effects of light out of doors is exemplified most purely in the painting of Claude Monet, who forced it to its limits, and then beyond.” John Canaday
Recognizing the stylistic differences amongst the painters who since 1874 when they were first ridiculed by critics as “Impressionists”, was [...]