Sowing Stars and a Little Bit of Space Dust
There was a crazy split in art history between the modernist perspective of being true to the surface of the canvas vs. the classical window looking at out the world. Paradoxically, both are true but they missed what connects them: light and color vibrations dance on our cornea's surface.
Newberry Art Tutorials Colored and dark papers can save you precious time and give you amazing effects. When I paint/draw/teach plein air I try to nail the impression in under an hour, it is a race against the planet moving. As the sun slowly moves across the landscape you will see new cast shadows, new …
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I drew this the other evening from a live model. It is play on Duchamp's Nude Descending
There is difficult oxymoron in painting and pastel which is that color kills light and light kills color, but I think with these I achieved the perfect balance bringing out the best of both.
In one of the most important aesthetic books, Kant separates the sublime from the senses and art. This is the first in Newberry's series on Kant, which will cover far-reaching implications.
In this episode, I reflect that it has been 40 years of painting life-size figures and now it is time for a major retrospection of my work in a major museum of contemporary art.
Newberry discusses the influences of Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Michelangelo in his current work in progress.
A visit to well known NY gallery of an artist's solo show of still lifes. I was surprised he didn't get the connotations of his visual language. It was like talking to someone who didn't get that they were making a double entendre.
Newberry discusses phallic shapes in painting with reference to Velazquez "The Signing of Breda" contrasted with some florals by Georgia O'Keeffe.
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