Monet paintings timeline

One of my favorite artists is Claude Monet. According to Wikipedia, Monet created almost 1100 paintings over a period of near on 70 years. Yesterday I looked at Van Gogh and showed a timeline of his work. This prompted me to look at Monet whose work I admire in order to show the productivity of [...]

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Van Gogh’s manic creative output

Reading about the renewed interest over Vincent Van Gogh’s ear and how part of it got severed from his body, I was reminded of a piece I wrote last year about Vincent Van Gogh. I was writing about the incredible number of paintings he did in the short time that he was creating until his early [...]

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Forget about the money, it’s beautiful

Forget the £41M. It’s just beautiful.
“Le bassin aux nymphéas”, 1919, Claude Monet.

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A Jewish Vocabulary of Art?

Taken from the opening passage of “First Diasporist Manifesto” by R. B. Kitaj:
“Diasporist painting is unfolding commentary on its life-source, the contemplation of a transience, a Midrash (exposition, exegesis of non-literal meaning) in paint and somehow, collected, these paintings, these circumstantial allusions, form themselves into secular Responsa or reactions to one’s transient restlessness, un-at-homeness, groundlessness.”
I [...]

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CCTV art

Picked this one up on Guy Kawasaki’s blog this morning. He quotes an article in the UK Daily Telegraph about a Manchester band called “Get Out Clause” who played their music in the street in front of the around eighty CCTV surveillance cameras around their city and then edited up a video of the result. They needed [...]

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The biggest (hoax) drawing in the world

CNet reports this morning that the biggest drawing in the world was just a hoax. The purported art project was to fly a GPS device around the world and create a massive drawing from the track of the device. Keen eyed and intelligent commenters on previous articles on this subject both on CNet and other places had [...]

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Amazing drawing of Jerusalem

I saw this video today (sorry but most of it is in Hebrew) about Stephen Wiltshire who draws amazing panoramic drawings of cities around the world from memory. The image below shows the finished work and if you click on it you can go to his site to see his gallery.

Go to Stephen Wiltshire’s gallery
Stephen apparently [...]

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Keeping good company

I dropped in at Nofim this afternoon and I was honored to find my pictures hanging next to a Menashe Kadishman sheep. You can see my Walls of Jerusalem at the bottom and Gateway with Bouganvillea on the right.
I’m pleased to see they’re keeping good company.

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The Rabbi and Rembrandt

Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook (1865-1935) known more concisely as Rav Kook, was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine. He was quite a unique figure in the synthesis which he created between different streams of Jewish thought and the bridges that he built with the secular and particularly the Zionist world [...]

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Artists Blog Search

I just got listed on the Artists Blog Search. This is a useful site which uses a Google custom search to search listed artist blogs. If your blog isn’t there then you can drop them an email and get yourself listed. Sure can’t do any harm.

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