My child could paint this!
The Marla Olmstead Story
I remember childhood summers spent at the North Sea in Holland, mixing buckets of sand and water in just the right proportion…
Abstract Art is dead. Long live Abstract Art!
Paintings of Lee Musgrave
In 1940 the New Republic published an article written by Wyndham Lewis, a painter himself, with the title The End of Abstract Art. https://newrepublic.com/article/80125/the-end-abstract-art This…
Non-referential, huh?
Confusion reigns - but that's probably me
Written by the editors of the Encyclopedia Brittanica: “Abstract art, also called nonobjective art or nonrepresentational art, painting, sculpture, or graphic art in which the portrayal of things from the…
Will I ever understand Abstract Art?
We will find out. Or not.
I know very little – really next to nothing – about abstract art. Sometimes I think that interferes with my appreciation of…
Oaks Bottom Nature Preserve
Oaks Amusement Park
We conclude this week’s explorations with a location close to home: Oaks Bottom, a 141 acres nature preserve with a lake, marshland and…
Worpswede
A German Artist Colony
My grandmother Dora grew up as one of 11 children on a small holding in Lower Saxony; her parents worked the lands…
Les Corbeaux
Bonus: Trompe L'Oeil at the Louvre
If memory can be trusted – and I wouldn’t, necessarily – the background of this montage was based on a photograph taken…
What ever happened to NEVER AGAIN?
Visit the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
On December 17, 2012, the Simon Wiesental Center issued a travel advisory for Copenhagen and Denmark, following a warning by the Israeli…
Wide Open Spaces
The threat to public lands
Dufur, population 607, is a small hamlet south of The Dalles. I found those antelope skulls in a shop window, years in…
Off the Beaten Path
Museo de Arte de Ponce
This week I decided to dig for some of my favorite montages in the archives as long as they were connected to…