Image title: The Harvesters Medium: Oil on wood Date: 1565 Source: The Met Collection “ The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. ” — John Lasseter The Erosion Aesthetic: How Climate Collapse is Shaping Land-Based Art Today Introduction: A New Urgency in Earth’s Palette Read more…
Image title: The Birth of the Virgin Medium: Tempera and oil on wood Date: 1467 Source: The Met Collection “ With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. ” — Oprah Winfrey Painting with Light: Indigenous Australian Art’s Dialogue with Optical Read more…
Image title: The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment Medium: Oil on canvas, transferred from wood Date: ca. 1436–38 Source: The Met Collection “ Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. ” — Isocrates When Paintings Listen Back: Interactive Canvases and Sonic Art Read more…
Image title: Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement Medium: Tempera on wood Date: ca. 1440 Source: The Met Collection “ Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people. ” — Mary Read more…
Image title: Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540) Medium: Tempera on wood, transferred from wood to canvas and then again to wood Date: 1510 Source: The Met Collection “ The world is but a canvas to the imagination. ” — Henry David Thoreau From Canvas to Console: Fine Art References in Video Read more…
Image title: The Birth of the Virgin Medium: Tempera and oil on wood Date: 1467 Source: The Met Collection “ I can, therefore I am. ” — Simone Weil ‘I Paint Therefore I Am’: Cartesian Philosophy in Abstract Expressionism Introduction: A Brush with Philosophy The phrase “I think, Read more…
Image title: Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560) Medium: Oil and gold on oak Date: 1532 Source: The Met Collection “ I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars; I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. ” — Warren Buffett The Studio Inside the Prison: Read more…
Image title: Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun Medium: Oil on canvas Date: 1658 Source: The Met Collection “ Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things. Read more…
Image title: Saint Jerome in the Wilderness Medium: Marble Date: ca. 1470 Source: The Met Collection “ When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. ” — John F. Kennedy Written in Flesh: Tattooing as Sculpture in Read more…
Image title: The Harvesters Medium: Oil on wood Date: 1565 Source: The Met Collection “ Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. ” — Charles Lindbergh Brushstrokes on Read more…