I curate visual arts under The Art Junkie banner and I write from time to time on Colder by The Lake.
French painter Francine Van Hove is well known for the transparent skin tones of her women subjects, which she paints exclusively, and always from life. The expression of beauty, sensuality, femininity and freedom is the philosophy behind her work. Van Hove, represented by Galerie De Bellefeuille in Montreal, […]
Flash back to the late 1960s, when Edward Gorey (mid-century illustrator of the macabre) and author Peter F. Neumeyer had a 13-month exchange of letters. The letters were sent as they collaborated on two children’s books written by Neumeyer and illustrated by Gorey. Gorey, who influenced a generation […]
It’s remarkable, the ordinary things that photographers winnow out of daily life to make art. For 27 years, starting in 1991 when she was in her 30s, Deanna Dikeman visited her parents in Sioux City, Iowa. Each time she drove away, she photographed them waving goodbye from the […]
Victoria Rose Martin’s work enabled me to see my sister and myself as we were and could have been, and for the first time, to rail against my loss. I thought of summers together, sharing a bedroom, confidences, conflicts, loyalty, hilarity, love. For many years after my little […]
These are Frida Kahlo’s works. She is one of the five famous artists featured in this video on journals and sketchbooks. (NOTE: This is a 25-minute video, but so worth watching, by UK artist Lillian Gray. You can also skip through some of the sections if you don’t […]
Apparently no one knew it was a Banksy when contractors moved in to begin demolition for dozens of new homes. The mural, Morning is Broken, showed a young boy, with a cat at his side, opening corrugated iron curtains at the site in Kent, England. The house, built in […]
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