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Christopher Volpe's Art Blog: October 2014

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One artist/art historian's random take on the world's great paintings. Monday, October 27, 2014. With All Hallow's Eve nigh upon us, I'm taking a minute to salute a peculiar color with semi-macabre overtones, a pigment I delight in using called "caput mortuum.". Other terms for this pigment are cardinal purple and Mars violet). The translation of the latin caput mortuum. Is literally "dead head," or "death's head," a term for the symbolic drawing of a skull (hence the famous Death's Head Moth. Painters u...

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Christopher Volpe's Art Blog: May 2015

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One artist/art historian's random take on the world's great paintings. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Great Book of Kids' Art Projects (Freebie Alert! I wanted to take a minute to pass on a kind offer from a friend of mine, N.H. artist and gallery-owner Susan Schwake. Susan has offered to send a free signed copy of her new book, Art for All Seasons: 40 Creative Mixed Media Adventures for Children. To the first blog reader who sends me an email and asks for one. My" page in Susan's book! Links to this post. Among...

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Christopher Volpe's Art Blog: July 2014

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One artist/art historian's random take on the world's great paintings. Monday, July 28, 2014. Technique is JUST technique. My favorite painting by Ad Reinhardt. A Glass of Water (2000) by Alex Kanevskey. The end of painting is “to express what you care for most by the simplest means that will avail you - your. Experience; whether you do it in work that takes years, or whether you do it, like Caran d’Ache, in the line of a few seconds.” - John La Farge. It seems that what’s most important in paintin...

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Christopher Volpe's Art Blog: May 2014

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One artist/art historian's random take on the world's great paintings. Friday, May 30, 2014. Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the timeworn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.". Robert Henri, The Art Spirit, pp. 206-7. Manet, Luncheon on the Grass. Art must take reality by surprise.". Manet, Olympia, 1863. Manet, The Races at Longchamps, 1864.

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Christopher Volpe's Art Blog: September 2014

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One artist/art historian's random take on the world's great paintings. Monday, September 22, 2014. The White Mountains, Beautiful and Sublime. Early impressions of the majesty and drama of New Hampshire's White Mountains and the Catskills fired up artists' and the public's imagination and set American painting on its feet. Thomas Doughty and Alvan Fisher were early artists to find beauty and majestic power the Whites. Alvan Fisher, Crawford Notch, c. 1820s. Alvan Fisher, Elephant's Head, Crawford Notch.

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Christopher Volpe's Art Blog: November 2014

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One artist/art historian's random take on the world's great paintings. Monday, November 17, 2014. Fill in the Blank. The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that great art reflects a profound moment of insight into human life. I realize that ,. Depending on your orientation, that m. Ay sound totally cliched and wooden, or far too abstract/ivory tower (or just plain too obvious to need stating), but stay with me. At the Peabody Essex Museum, M.C. Escher. In place of Turner at the PEM). Personal...

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Christopher Volpe's Art Blog: January 2014

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One artist/art historian's random take on the world's great paintings. Saturday, January 18, 2014. Taking Photos in Museums. I'm bad about taking pictures in museums. I keep my phone camera on and ready in my coat pocket, tell-tale "click sound" off, watching for guards. Until publicly scolded I'll snap stealth closeups of brushstrokes,. From a Monet at the Museum of Fine Arts. How things look in frames,. Corot in a period Barbizon frame at the Currier Museum, Manchester NH. Burned by art thieves, Boston...

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Art e-Walk: February 2015

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Friday, February 27, 2015. Landscape vs. Manscape. This month, Good Children Gallery. Brings the visitor on a journey of a sort with The Horizon Tries. The latest exhibition curated by Lala Rašč. Ić The multimedia show includes Raščić's works, a video from the Croatian collective Fokus Grupa. And a piece from Lana Čmajčanin. The theme, a reflection on landscapes, ultimately becomes an attempt to answer the question: "When we look at landscape do we see culture or nature? Culture, Landscape, Manscape",.