Cleaning revives painting of Easton: Restorer came to admire the city...

Morning Call (Allentown, PA);  April 20, 2006 ;     719 words ......Mathias Apr. 20--For more than 35 years, a painting of an Easton resort inn on College Hill...airborne soot and grime. The sky [in the painting] was so dark, it looked like a storm...reference staff, said anyone looking at the painting would have been unable to tell the trees...

"Painting on the move"

Artforum;  November 1, 2002 ;   Gingeras, Alison M;   787 words ......KUNSTHALLE, BASEL To examine the history of painting during the past century as a whole is...kamikaze fantasies. While the definition of painting as a medium is still relatively clear...wounds-- it seems futile to speak of painting as such without isolating specific issues...

What painting?

Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine;  July 1, 1998 ;   Chantal Pontbriand;   585 words ...What, painting? This question has been asked throughout...nothingness, the deepest of radicalisms. What painting? Jean-Francois Lyotard used this question...our conferences, well understood that painting was not finished, that it would reinvent...

Painting Is Dead

The Washington Post;  November 21, 1993 ;   Frank Stella;   787 words ......National Gallery on Oct. 27. The real issue now is painting's future. The expansion of the art world to include...couldn't make it anywhere else seems to have swamped painting - that is, painting as a coherently defined, limited activity. The...

Art of painting proves far from dead

The Nelson Mail;  September 24, 2008 ;   SHAW, Errol;   427 words ...It's About Painting, at the Gallery at Woollaston until October 15. Reviewed by Errol...of photography, Paul Delaroche in 1839 declared, "From today, painting is dead." Painting doesn't seem to have died. With the proliferation of photography...

'Soft framing': a comparative aesthetics of painting and photography.

Journal of European Studies;  June 1, 2000 ;   DAVEY, E. R.;   787 words ......been done on the relation of photography to painting. [1] For the most part, this work has concentrated on influences between the two media: painting on photography; photography on painting. In this field, perhaps none is as magisterial...

Arts: Is the writing on the wall? Has painting a future? With 60 paintings...

The Independent - London;  May 11, 1999 ;   Tom Lubbock;   787 words ...Painting. Death. Of. Well, I'm sorry. I'm sorry to put those three...this week we're not going to be able to avoid it. The "Is painting dead?" debate is back. Bad luck. Of course, the odd thing...thing is that it's very unclear what the stakes are. If painting faded out, why should we care? When people say ...

The Knack: How To Value A Painting By Philip Hook, A Senior Director Of...

The Independent - London;  April 27, 2001 ;   Interview by Susannah Prain;   528 words ......criteria that determine the value of a painting. At the moment at Sotheby's we have an unusual case of a painting which hasn't been seen for around 100...exhibition between 1891 and 1895. The painting is part of a series of 23, 15 of which...

Painting Earns Its Stripes.

The Nation;  February 21, 2000 ;   Danto, Arthur Coleman Scully, Sean;   787 words ......sculpture was inferior, equal or superior to painting. The texts in which the issue was mooted...expressed than in Jan Vermeer's The Art of Painting, recently on loan to the National Gallery...DC. An artist, shown from behind, is painting the Muse of History, using a female model...

D.C. School of Realism Influences a Work of Art; Damage to Painting Traced...

The Washington Post;  December 12, 1991 ;   Ruben Castaneda;   565 words ......year, add one rather unusual victim: a painting. The artwork was one of three by D.C...Exhibition in the fall. On Aug. 31, the day paintings were being hung for the exhibit, officials...streets. Near a corner, in the part of the painting that depicts the sign of a carryout restaurant...

Relevance of painting revived in local show; Traditional approach proves...

The Sunday Independent (South Africa);  August 6, 2006 ;     787 words ......London's Royal Academy entitled A New Spirit in Painting was said to mark the revival of painting, which was deemed to have lost its relevance...the artworks on display failed to reinvent painting. Hot on the heels of Charles Saatchi's Triumph...

Misjudging the landscape; The art world didn't embrace a local family's...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  December 15, 2004 ;   Hanson, Eric;   684 words ......Perhaps expectations for the sale of the painting were too high. Or there were reservations...people. Whatever the case, a locally owned painting by 19th century landscape artist Albert...the Chicago firm that auctioned the painting last weekend. Probably, the estimate...

NEW COURTHOUSE PAINTING HELPS CLEANSE COUNTY MEETING ROOM

Herald-News (Joliet, IL);  April 6, 2000 ;     674 words ...A new 2-by-3-foot painting now hangs proudly in an honored spot in the Will...Nov. 30. On that date, I told the story behind the painting that was hanging there then. The old painting of the county's courthouse had been on the board...

FINE PAINTING'S DUBIOUS PLACE

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  May 5, 1991 ;   John Zeaman, Record Art Critic;   787 words ......Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-05-1991 FINE PAINTING'S DUBIOUS PLACE -- BIERSTADT WORK RAISES...would have been amazed to learn that this painting -- a routine ceremonial undertaking...find the public debating whether his painting should be covered up. What a difference...

OIL PAINTING 'NOBODY WANTS' WORTH $250K.(NEWS)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  August 23, 2001 ;     320 words ......Tressler Toledo Blade ARCHBOLD, Ohio -- A painting of a young Jesus and seven old men...nearly 30 years. The soft, striking oil painting was enjoyed and admired. All this time, the eyes that surveyed the painting had no idea they were looking at a...