Harvest at La Crau with Montmajour in the Background, 1888
This week I’m on the road. I’ve left you with six landscape paintings that should be on everyone’s Top Ten list, but probably aren’t (for the simple reason that there are way too many great paintings out there). Harvest at La Crau with Montmajour in the Background, Vincent Van Gogh, 1888 It’s absurd to try to …
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Le pont de Narni, 1826
This week I’m on the road. I’ve left you with six landscape paintings that should be on everyone’s Top Ten list, but probably aren’t (for the simple reason that there are way too many great paintings out there). Le pont de Narni, 1826, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, oil on paper, the Louvre. This oil sketch, done on site …
Beamsville, 1919
This week I’m on the road. I’ve left you with six landscape paintings that should be on everyone’s Top Ten list, but probably aren’t (for the simple reason that there are way too many great paintings out there). Beamsville, 1919, Frank Johnston Landscape painting and war art are closely tied. In 1919, Frank Johnston (later a …
A world without art is a world without common culture
Yesterday I railed about the educational establishment, which practices intellectual gavage on our children at the expense of creativity. Perhaps they should remember that all, or nearly all, of the unifying icons of the American experience were created by artists. Daniel Chester French’s colossal Lincoln in Washington’s Lincoln Memorial Daniel Chester French’s name is not …
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This is your world without art
This is your world without art. My little corner of the world was rocked yesterday by a report that a staggering number of young New Yorkers are deficient in math and languages, according to new state tests. The district in which we live—which was once among the very top schools nationwide—achieved a piddling 59.8% language …