Nov. 4, 2022
It always stayed with me that the Cleveland Museum of Art purchased this small but powerful work during the time of the takeover of the American Embassy in I...
Oct. 11, 2022
When collecting art it's easy and logical to purchase works that reflect the surrounding environment of the collector. In Venice an art collector would logicall
Oct. 10, 2022
On the topic of Fishing and what happens when you cut open a fish.
Oct. 2, 2022
He wanted to go to the Louvre and paint WHAT?
Sep. 25, 2022
Whenever you study German Expressionism or Expressionism you will at some point come across this key painting which is at Allen Memorial Museum in Oberlin, a...
Sep. 15, 2022
Matisse was not liked by either the teachers or other students at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Sep. 14, 2022
“Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the publ
Sep. 7, 2022
The artist/author/illustrator Alfred Kubin was originally to be the art director of the movie Cabinet of Dr Caligari image Where These Seas Stand Still by Kubin
Sep. 7, 2022
There are three exceptional paintings in the same gallery at the CMA that primarily speak to me in terms of structure.
Aug. 13, 2022
In the 60's the Cleveland Museum of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art got in a bidding war for the Rembrandt painting Aristotle With a Bust of Homer.
Aug. 5, 2022
In The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew by Caravaggio the artist manages to have in the same painting Saint Andrew being crucified with the Latin cross and in the...
Aug. 5, 2022
The Harem [ Figures in Pink ] by Picasso done in 1906 is the last major work by Picasso in the rose period.
Jun. 20, 2022
There is a saying in Japan: 出る釘は打たれる deru kugi wa utareru – it is generally translated as “The nail that sticks up, will be hammered down.
Jun. 9, 2022
My wife and I were living in a small town of about 300 people west of Seattle.
Jun. 5, 2022
The label from a newer painting at the Cleveland Museum of Art by an artist who's work I did not know.
May. 18, 2022
One day in the early morning Gautama Buddha was sitting in a garden quietly with his disciples.
May. 5, 2022
When I was 12 and 13 I was very much into Indian music and had a collection of albums of Ravi Shankar.
May. 4, 2022
When I was 12 I started going to The Cleveland Museum of Art about once a month.
Apr. 13, 2022
After the great stock market crash of 1929 the master of the cosmic horror story H.
Apr. 13, 2022
The two pivotal movements in art history were cubism and surrealism. Cubism opened the doors to a new visual language in 1907. In 1924 Surrealism opened the doo
Mar. 23, 2022
In the collection at The Cleveland Museum of Art is a Japanese scroll painting titled The Story of Fukutomi from 1392-1573.
Mar. 9, 2022
I took part on a zoom meeting concerning an upcoming exhibition of Tudor art at the CMA.
Feb. 21, 2022
With the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Poe's only novel and a novel that the surrealists liked, critics tend to skim over it at best and go on ...
Feb. 18, 2022
A message I sent my students in my Continuing Education class at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Feb. 8, 2022
The Japanese god of fire, Kagutsuchi or Homusubi was another offspring of the primordial Izanagi and Izanami.
Jan. 31, 2022
Why don't you paint small paintings that can be sold, like everybody else, asks my milkman.
Jan. 27, 2022
With Picasso's La Vie there are a number of theories about what exactly the painting means.
Jan. 7, 2022
For a time my wife and I owned a home in a small town of about 300 people off the beaten trek in Western Washington State.
Dec. 29, 2021
For a time I worked as a part-time guard in another city for a special exhibition of Picasso's work from the Picasso Museum in Paris. For the time it was there
Dec. 16, 2021
Perseus's last duty 1949 by Beckmann in the CMA collection.
Dec. 14, 2021
The Cleveland Museum of Art added a new Matisse to their collection.
Dec. 8, 2021
If Art History had a family gathering Dadaism would be the crazy uncle that you don't want to invite.
Dec. 7, 2021
At the Cleveland Museum of Art there are a series of five large neoclassical paintings by Charles Meynier containing all the key ingredients of the ideals of...
Dec. 6, 2021
The Cleveland Museum of Art owns a painting by de Chirico titled Metaphysical Interior done sometime between 1917 and 1939.
Dec. 3, 2021
In 1900 after first viewing the etchings of Max Klinger, artist Alfred Kubin went to a theater variety show.
Dec. 3, 2021
Sources familiar with the Nashville bomb investigation told ABC News that authorities are looking into evidence that Anthony Quinn Warner was interested in v...
Dec. 3, 2021
A short walk from the Cleveland Institute of Art and almost across from it is a Ohio Historical Marker for the spot which is now a parking lot, where the hom...
Dec. 2, 2021
Mokujiki 1718-1810 From a certain point of view his works could be considered ugly […].
Nov. 29, 2021
In 1948 the Van Gogh painting 3 Sunflowers was displayed in Cleveland.
Nov. 28, 2021
Years ago I worked as a part time guard at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Nov. 28, 2021
Years ago I was a part time guard at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Nov. 24, 2021
When I was a fourth year student at the Cleveland Institute of Art one of my instructors was a visiting artist from new York named Michael Fenton.
Nov. 24, 2021
I was an art instructor for a time at Cooper School of Art for a time.
Nov. 23, 2021
Japanese proverb - The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
Nov. 10, 2021
In this early painting by Ensor there is almost no indication of the subject matter he would later become well known for.
Sep. 16, 2021
In1948 in Los Angeles noted art collector Vincent Price and others created the Modern Institute of Art.
Aug. 17, 2021
For a time I worked as a guard from a the exhibition Masterpieces From The Musee Picasso, Paris.
Jul. 29, 2021
Growing up there were only three and then later six television channels.
Jul. 23, 2021
A couple of years ago we lived in a small condo in another city for about 4 years.
Jul. 23, 2021
A short walk from the Cleveland Institute of Art and almost across from it is a Ohio Historical Marker for the spot which is now a parking lot, where the hom...
Jul. 23, 2021
Once in a while when I lived in Japan and when we lived in Washington State somebody would ask - Do you want to sell your work?
Jul. 23, 2021
Mokujiki 1718-1810 From a certain point of view his works could be considered ugly […].
Jun. 16, 2021
Galleries and museums should not only exhibit artwork but also educate the public about the artwork they exhibit.
Jun. 7, 2021
This painting was done by the most important master swordsman in Japanese history Miyamoto Musashi.
Jun. 2, 2021
I'm not realy interested in getting that facts accurate in the introductions to some of the series that I do.
May. 24, 2021
Carcass paintingsSoutine once horrified his neighbours by keeping an animal carcass in his studio so that he could paint it (Carcass of Beef).
