"There was this incredible feeling of familiarity — the hospitality, the music, the artistic expression: modern paintings are everywhere.
Constructed with remarkable detail, from wallpaper patterns to facial expressions, the paintings of multidisciplinary artist Leah Brown evoke tales from The Brothers Grimm.
ROXBURY "Impression and Expression: Two Approaches," paintings by Ruth Jaffe and Susan Purdy.
On an artistic level, I respond to infinity and endless space, and in part, this finds expression in my paintings.
A HISTORY IN MEAT Eating, drinking and celebrating has been a staple of artistic expression since cave paintings.
Also fascinating is the editors' essay, "Van Gogh in Search of His Own Voice," which links the artist's distaste for the prevailing style of religious oratory to the more authentic expression of his paintings, "the eloquence that wins hearts because it comes from the heart".
"Over the years, I have used logos of what I think of as generic brands as self expression in my paintings," Calvin explains.
Initially writing in her diary that she had lost the will to live, Rix Nicholas's grief eventually found its expression in three paintings, titled And Those Who Would Have Been Their Sons, They Gave Their Immortality (a phrase from a poem by Rupert Brooke), Desolation and Pro Humanitate.
But the digital viewing of great works of art is indeed a new and imaginative way to look at paintings and other forms of artistic expressions.
The shapes of "Words of Memory," however, are thick and solid and might remind viewers of Abstract Expressions, especially the paintings of Motherwell and Gottlieb.
