Interview with Christopher D. M. Atkins, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Interview with Christopher D. M. Atkins, Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and author of The Signature Style of Frans Hals: Painting, Subjectivity, and the Market in Early Modernity (Amsterdam University Press, 2012).   Javier Berzal: What attracted you to Frans Hals [1580-1666] in the first place? Christopher Atkins: First of all, I love the paintings of Frans Hals. More specifically, I... Read More

Profile of the Artist Rodney Carswell

Rodney Carswell, Jan 2 (10) (2010). Oil and wax on linen, 12.5” x 12.5”. Courtesy of Devening Projects + Editions © Rodney Carswell   hither and yon (little prisons) i meander; escape the straight and narrow…only to be so; drift in a random circuit; stray, losing the path. i make geometric repetition; mark a border to enforce a limit; my enclosures dictate direction; my outside determines interior; i move: up/down, left/right, back/forth,... Read More

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT EUROPE: ANTONIO MEZCUA LÓPEZ

  ANTONIO MEZCUA LÓPEZ –Granada, Spain–   About the Artist: Antonio Mezcua López earned his undergraduate degree in Art History from the University of Granada in 1999.  Thereafter he lived in China for four years on a Spanish government scholarship studying the techniques of ancient Chinese painting and the use of mineral pigments on paper.  He dedicated his studies to ancient Chinese landscape, gardens, and poetry.  He... Read More