14 Mar 2011

Bacon and Daumier

A recent entry on one of Daumier’s Don Quixote and Sancho Panza paintings showed that the knight’s lance and shield are really substitutes for the artist’s brush and palette.  Even the other way round, when Daumier depicted an ar

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02 May 2010

Letters in the Art of All Periods

There are certain long-lived traditions within the history of art-making that, if known, add immeasurably to the viewer's interest and understanding. Among them is the subtle metamorphic inclusion of the artist's initials, one of the many lit

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