PETER DOIG FEVER
My first contact with Peter Doig’s painting was a picture of Pond Life (1993) in Modern Painters magazine not that long after it was created. I was strangely attracted to the wintery feel of the naïve image and its scratchy surface. The way it mimics the marks made by ice skates on the frozen...
ARTIST QUOTE: BERNARD FRIZE
I once worked on a painting for nearly three months, so there’s no way I can claim that my process is anything like Bernard Frize’s; but I actually really identify with what he’s saying here and what it implies: all paintings in a sense are documents that witness events that have occurred to...
PETER DOIG, THE MAN WHO WAS ALLOWED TO PAINT
Thirteen years ago exactly I was in the last days of my masters degree in London. One of my course colleagues and I had a joint exhibition project we were trying to find a venue for and were on the phone to a guy in charge of a space we were interested in....
ARTIST STUDIO: BALTHUS
This picture of Balthus and his wife Setsuko in the studio magically captures the aura of mystery and sophistication that marked the painter’s later years, when his life elapsed in a Swiss chalet with his kimono clad wife and daughter. The posture of the old painter in the armchair seems to mirror that of the...
ARTIST QUOTE: PHILIP GUSTON
Some truths about painting stated here by Philip Guston with very little beating about the bush: “No good to paint in the head – what happens is what happens when you put the paint down – you can only hope that you are alert – ready – to see. What joy it is...
JONATHAN LASKER: LOVE HIM OR HATE HIM
There’s a strong and peculiar tasting food product in the UK called Marmite that uses the slogan “love it or hate it”. I guess the commercial logic behind admitting that some people are disgusted by the stuff you’re trying to push is that it will produce a reaction in those who love...
GERHARD RICHTER
Gerhard Richter’s painting process is an obsession for many practicing artists; I guess I’m not being very original on this one. Here it is portrayed with beauty in an almost hypnotic manner. El proceso pictórico de Gerhard Richter es una obsesión para muchos practicantes del arte; supongo que aquí no estoy siendo muy...
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