Descriptions of the 110-foot-high Otter Cliffs in Maine’s Acadia National Park are often described as “one of the tallest headlands north of Rio de Janeiro.” That’s one long coastline.
Joel Babb’s Otter Cliffs, Mt. Desert Island, Maine (from North) shows the sheer cliffs on a calm day, ready to withstand the buffeting of the surf. At its base are rounded rocks, their edges softened by years of wave action. Babb now lives in Maine, having been born in Georgia, raised in Nebraska and having taught for over 20 years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He found inspiration in the drawings of the 17th -century French master Claude Lorrain.
“I remember that in my own attempts to render landscape I didn’t get anywhere until I studied Claude drawings—how contours overlap to make masses, which break down into smaller masses. How bands of light and dark are organized to separate levels in space,” Babb says. “The structure of tree foliage is incomprehensible without the organization of clumps which one sees in Claude’s drawings. Once you get this idea of the big clumps have little clumps, and little clumps have smaller clumps, and that the whole thing has a volume in three dimensions you begin to understand how trees look to the mind, not just to the retina.”
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Guardians of the Temple – Simon Dinnerstein reflects on The Fulbright Triptych 50 years later.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University exhibits Simon Dinnerstein's The Fulbright Triptych haunts the visual lexicon of 20th century American representational art. Fifty years have passed since Dinnerstein completed the painting in 1974.
A City Perspective
Leslie Gaduzo has always been interIested in art. Since childhood, he has been drawing constantly, from single point perspective drawings at age 10 to complex architectural drawings.
Living Legacy
The Butler Institue hosts Allied Artists of America's 110th Annual Juried Exhibition.
Elegant yet Approachable
The second edition of the RTIA Show presents even more art to explore and expanded special programming.
Figuratively Speaking
New York has always been an epicenter of artists on the edge of excellence, pushing the envelope and finding their voices.
JAMES AYERS: The Importance of Play
Like many artists, James Ayers' work took a turn during the Covid-19 pandemic. Seeing the enjoyment his kids took from playing with paint in his studio and exploring their creativity inspired him.
GINA MINICHINO: Playing with Food
Gina Minichino started her journey in visual arts because of Charles Schulz. \"He was my earliest influence for drawing and the reason I wanted to be a cartoonist,\" she says.
Island Light
The Cuttyhunk Island Artists' Residency is held in a sprawling, 100-year-old house on an island off the southern coast of Massachusetts.
Solitary Forms
Hogan Brown has been working with Arcadia Contemporary for two and half years and is excited to be featured in his first solo show at the gallery. He doesn't take for granted the many talented figurative painters Arcadia represents and is thrilled to be among them.
Living the Dream
Counterintuitively, David Gluck was a painter before taking up tattooing little more than a decade ago. While skin is a completely different substrate and ink a far cry from oil paint, the skills must be transferrable to some degree because there is a wait-time of nine months to get an appointment with him.