Painter's Palettes

This will only be of use to obsessive painters like myself, but here is a fantastic post of great painters responding and listing their color palettes. Now if only I could figure out what was on Morandi's....

Painting: Powers of Observation

Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition Shown in Cinemas

This is among the dumbest things I have ever heard of.

Via the BBC

Devil's face revealed in Giotto fresco in Italy

Oh Giotto, you clever devil.

Via the BBC

Mark Grotjahn

Sometimes even gossip about painters is worthwhile. I love Mark Grotjahn, drunk or sober.

"Intoxicated Mark Grotjahn Passes Out And Still Has Good Night", via the Huffington Post.

Jered Sprecher: Interview

I really dig Jered Sprecher's work and have featured him here before. Check out his interview over at Painter's Bread.

John McAllister

Blogger Caleb De Jong on John McAllister's Damned Sparkling Pomp Show.

Looks like it is worth a visit.

R.I.P. Stephen Meuller

R.I.P. Stephen Meuller.

Obit via the New York Times

but does it float

A new painting blog I've been digging. Posts combine images of paintings and quotes. It reminds me of my journal at 16 in a profoundly more intelligent way, and I dig it.

but does it float blog.

Denver's New Clyford Still Museum

Good news! Denver is opening a Clyford Still museum. Peter Plagen's thoughts on it here.

RIP Richard Hamilton

British artist Richard Hamilton, regarded as a pioneer in the field of Pop art, has died at the age of 89 following a short illness.

David Hockney's New Video Still Composites

David Hockney: still one of the youngest, most innovative painter out there? Yes indeed.

An article about Hockney's new video still composites. Too few artists actually question the nature of seeing anymore.

Jared Sprechter @ Stephen Zevitas

I really enjoyed Jared Sprechter's last show at Steven Zevitas. It's so rare to find fun abstraction that is also so formally complex. So I think you should check out his new show opening this month.

Jared Sprechter @ Stephen Zevitas, Boston

Robert McCann @ the University of Kansas

Wish I could make it to Kansas to check this out. The Paintings look good.

Robert McCann @ the University of Kansas

A Hidden Leonardo Mural in Florence

Trying to unearth a hidden Leonardo Mural in Firenze with science.

From the NYT.

Chris Martin in D.C.

Chris Martin has been one of my favorite NYC painters for a while now. It is nice to see him finally getting a richly deserved major retrospective.

The Man Who Knew Infinity

"Roman Opalka, the French-born Conceptualist painter based in France and Italy, died on Aug. 6 near Rome, after a brief illness, just three weeks before his 80th birthday. A key figure in the Conceptualist movement during the mid-1960s, Opalka was fixated on the notion of infinity. His obsessive, lifelong project was to paint the numerals consecutively, one to infinity. Beginning in 1965 in his Warsaw studio, he devoted his life to carrying out the plan."


Full Obituary from Art in America here.

Rackstraw Downes

Hyperallergic has some good thoughts on Rackstraw Downes here.

Edward Hopper @ Bowdoin College

Saw this show last weekend. The earlier landscapes were particularly loose and beautiful and gave me a new insight into Hoppers evolution as a painter. See it if you are passing through Maine.

Edward Hopper's Maine

Merlin James @ Sikkema Jenkins

Merlin James @ Sikkema Jenkins

The Fine Art of the Heist

I want to read this.

"'Stealing Rembrandts' tells the story of modern art theft through the thefts of a single artist's work. It is a clever strategy, and Rembrandt a natural choice. The 17th-century Dutch master was heroically prolific; more than 2,000 of his paintings, drawings and etchings survive. Some of his canvases have fetched auction bids in the tens of millions of dollars. And because Rembrandt was a painter of masterly economy, his works tend to be small and portable. As a result, Rembrandt is among the most often stolen artists, topped only by Picasso. Some 80 of Rembrandt's works have been pilfered in the past 100 years..."


Read the rest of Benjamin Wallace's review here in the Wall Street Journal.