Single Point Perspective: Dürer’s Doomed Knight
Albrecht Dürer, “Knight, Death and Devil” (1513). Engraving, overall: 9 5/8 x 7 3/8 inches.…
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Dürer in DC: Some Observations on the Great Observer
Albrecht Dürer, “Head of an Apostle Looking Up” (1508). Brush and gray and black ink, gray wash,…
Single Point Perspective: Pawel Althamer’s Grass-Fed Surrealism
(via Single Point Perspective: Peter Acheson’s Table)
first encountered Peter Acheson’s table sculpture several years ago. A strange thing that continues to change through the years, the weather and the seasons. Never finished, or, as Acheson himself has said, “It resists the fantasy of completion,” it occupies a place few artists are willing to take their work, suspended in longing and transition.
(via Single Point Perspective: Regina Bogat’s Earthly Divination)
Regina Bogat: Works 1967-1977 at Zürcher Gallery marks another milestone in the rediscovery of an artist who has long been hidden in plain sight. Since her start in the 1950s, in a milieu that included abstract artists like Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt and her late husband, Al Jensen, Bogat has always played the subversive.
Single Point Perspective: Catherine Murphy’s Perfect Storm
Catherine Murphy, “Snowflakes (for Joyce Robins)” (2011), oil on canvas, 52 x 52 inches (image…
Single Point Perspective: Entropy Now
Maya Lin, “Disappearing Bodies of Water: Arctic Ice” (2013), Vermont Danby marble, granite base, 48…
Single Point Perspective: Dead Man Rising
Henri Huet, “The body of an American paratrooper killed in action in the jungle near the Cambodian…
Single Point Perspective: Munk and Me
Loren Munk, “An Attempted Documentation of Williamsburg, 1981-2008″ (2008-2011). Oil on linen, 60 x…
(via Met Envy Apparently Fueled National Gallery of Art’s Interest in Corcoran)
Buried in a Washington Post story about the court appearance of philanthropist Wayne Reynolds, a benefactor to the Corcoran Gallery opposed to its planned integration with the National Gallery of Art and George Washington University, is this gem (emphasis added):
