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Lawton’s Curve Ball
Artist Reflects on City Visions “Curved Reality” is an exhibition of paintings by New York artist Pamela Lawton. It is an unusual show of New York City vistas that takes the urban architecture culture of New York and creates a painterly visual experience. Lawton’s work uses form and color to depict a reality that is...
Elements of Art
Cézanne’s Wine Bottles Part 3 In the third version of Cézanne’s “The Card Players” series, the one now on view at the Musée d’Orsay, human figures enter the world that formerly belonged solely to the inanimate objects of drinking and eating. But in this version of genre painting, Cézanne once again gives primacy to the...
Elements of Art
Cézanne’s wine bottles (Part 2 of 3) Almost 100 years ago, Paul Cézanne painted “Blue Pot and Bottle of Wine,” now on view in the collection at The Pierpont Morgan Library. Though oil on canvas, it has the hurried tentativeness of a sketch. The longer you stare at it, taking note of its incompleteness, it...
Elements of Art: Cezanne’s wine bottles (1 of 3)
Towering above the other objects in Paul Cézanne’s “Still Life with Oranges and Apples” from 1895–1900 is a wine bottle. There it stands to the left of the frame, dominating the display of comestibles and asserting a curious authority. It is a tribute to thirst amidst the spread of plenty. Cézanne’s painting is one of...
Japan on a Screen
Multi-media show brings Far East near Japanese folding panel screens are a unique art form that Erik Thomsen Asian Art makes one of the highlights of this fall season in an exhibition titled Moon and Fall Grasses. It’s a perfectly timed show, especially when visitors to the gallery stop and behold the representative artifact “Musashino...
