#painting

Beaches, Beatles and a broken marriage: how Wilhelmina Barns-Graham became a radical art icon

The artist who was inspired by Swiss glaciers, the Vietnam war and her own divorce was sidelined from St Ives’ art history – but finally has a major retrospective at Tate At the centre of Tate St Ives’ newly opened retrospective of the British modernist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, her monumental altar-piece Glacier (Blue Cave) pulls viewers into its frozen tendons of turquoise and white. Its mouth is agape and the blue slit of its eye casts downwards to the rest of its body. The glacier feels human: a vivisection of rock, ice and snow that brings to mind the fragmented facial features of Picasso’

Guardian Culture · EN

The Power of Touch in High Art

Don’t Touch the Art by DS Waldman The first time I brought my mother to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, she reached out and touched one of my favorite paintings. I’d acquired a long-term press pass to the museum to help finish my first book, which features a number of ekphrastic poems and […] The post The Power of Touch in High Art appeared first on Electric Literature .

Electric Literature · EN

Can You See What Holds This Painting Together?

With his sly, vacant images, Roy Lichtenstein explored the distance that technology created between us and reality.

The Atlantic · EN

Timeless Totemic Figures by Izumi Kato Coexist in an Otherworldly Aquatic Realm

The artist's eponymous solo exhibition opens tomorrow at Perrotin in New York. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Timeless Totemic Figures by Izumi Kato Coexist in an Otherworldly Aquatic Realm appeared first on Colossal .

Colossal Art · EN

Playfully Vibrant Abstract Murals by Zebu Enliven Urban Walls

The Berlin-based duo draw on their background in illustration and graphic design to create eye-popping compositions. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Playfully Vibrant Abstract Murals by Zebu Enliven Urban Walls appeared first on Colossal .

Colossal Art · EN

Escape into Gretchen Scherer’s Maximalist Paintings of Palatial, Art-Filled Spaces

Scherer's paintings of affluent homes, studios, and libraries appear to expand before our eyes. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Escape into Gretchen Scherer’s Maximalist Paintings of Palatial, Art-Filled Spaces appeared first on Colossal .

Colossal · EN

Faceted Faces and Surreal Still Lifes Fill GaHee Park’s Dreamy Paintings

An eye peers from a goblet. A disembodied finger creeps from beneath a curtain. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Faceted Faces and Surreal Still Lifes Fill GaHee Park’s Dreamy Paintings appeared first on Colossal .

Colossal · EN

Jeffrey Gibson’s ‘A Real Love Thing’ Surveys a Decade of the Artist’s Multidisciplinary Practice

Fifteen works amplify Gibson's interest in pattern, music, queer iconography, and his Indigenous Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee heritage. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Jeffrey Gibson’s ‘A Real Love Thing’ Surveys a Decade of the Artist’s Multidisciplinary Practice appeared first on Colossal .

Colossal · EN

A painted weekend in Egypt 1

From the Book of the Dead, funerary portraits in encaustics, to imagined scenes in biblical times. Then seen by those who visited, from 1842 onwards.

The Eclectic Light Company · EN

A painted weekend in Egypt 2

The statues of Memnon near Luxor, threshing grain, a belly-dancer and carpet merchant, views of the city of Cairo and the pyramids of Giza.

The Eclectic Light Company · EN

Hero or hooligan: Orestes and the Furies

The Furies hunt Orestes down, haunting and tormenting him to drive him mad, because of his murder of his mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.

The Eclectic Light Company · EN