NOT ALL THE GOLD IN THE VAULT CAN SMILE LIKE THE NIGHT-WATCHMAN'S DAUGHTER

. Sounds like an improvement to me. (Quote in title is a paraphrase from Walt Whitman's poem, A Song for Occupations)

ARTISTS IN LOVE, part twelve

Pierre Bonnard was a part time law student and a part time painter. A man of diverse interests and little focus, he also considered a career...

RECOVERING THE SENSATION OF PERCEPTION

Victor Shklovsky, who was a pretty smart guy, wrote: Habitualization devours works, clothes, furniture, one's wife... and art exists tha...

SEEING THE FOREST THROUGH THE TREES

You can tell a lot about an artist by whether they see forests or trees. Some view a forest as a lot of individual trees. Others think that ...

TIME AND CHANCE HAPPENETH TO THEM ALL

Rasputin Morton Roberts (1927-1964) was a serious painter, a child prodigy who graduated from the fine arts program at Yale University and l...

A LITTLE ROOM

When Norman Rockwell launched his illustrious career, his first studio was a small attic room in a brothel. All afternoon a piano played in ...

THE MAD ECCENTRICS

Critics argue constantly about whether comic art qualifies as a fine art. Rather than debate which kinds of art win the "Fine Art"...