Pastel drawings have always been considered a secondary art form, not as versatile or durable as oil paintings or frescoes, not as “important,” something more suitable perhaps for the amusement of women of leisure. Now an elegant new exhibition at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco seeks to change those perceptions. Color Into …
Tucked behind a bungalow in Venice, California, is an art studio smaller than some people’s closets. An American flag thrust into a potted succulent droops in front of the window. Inside, wall-to-wall shelves are packed tight with battered books on naval warfare, engineering and astronomy. A scramble of sketches, blueprints and photos are pinned behind …
Foreword If a Haiku is the written record of the conscious experience of self in situation and of “pure awareness” of the moment, a sketch can be considered as the drawing equivalent. This piece aims at connecting the drawing to the writing, the first having preceded the second in providing what Allen Ginsberg has described …
In the morning, I wake to the sounds of a curdling scream. I wake with an intake of breath that I can’t release until I know where I am. Inside, I start the usual mantra, Please, please don’t let this be mom’s house. I’m awake. I’m at home with my husband. This isn’t my childhood. …
Editor’s Note: This exhibition was reviewed before The Getty closed due to coronavirus. When in the presence of genius, you know it! This exhibition of Michelangelo’s drawings presents a collection of his drawings from the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, the Netherlands supplemented with drawings from the Cleveland Museum and the J.Paul Getty Museum. It provides a …
“The lost sequence in a life, they say, is the thing we always search out.” (Michael Ondaatje, Warlight, M&S, 2018) The best years of our life If these years, according to Victor Hugo, are the ones lying ahead and are yet to be lived, it would be because we are able to project unto …
“Many will look but few will see” – Philip Thiel, from memory. “How does the impulse to draw something begin?” – John Berger, on the cover of his Bento’s sketchbook * Context My sketchbooks reveal a desire to understand life and to express what I see of its significant moments and places. I have …
The line drawing Sitting on the hot sand of a Mediterranean beach, my knees up, with a sketch book and lead pencil and the horizon for subject, I draw a line on the paper. I must be in my pre-teens and yet, I am overtaken with the feeling that the horizon; the drawn line and …
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