Leonardo and Rembrandt Stunned

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"...Go ahead: picture Leonardo and Da Vinci sitting in the corner of your studio unblinking. The art world's version of shock and awe...."

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Edward Hopper

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"...Hopper puts black where he means vague. The variations in surface between lost areas and visible texture, between brushed thin paint and scumbled opaque paint is just enough to make the canvas push into three-dimensional life ahead of it's two-dimensional facsimile..."

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There's No There There

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"...It's impossible to be impressed with oneself..."

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Apprentice

Man, 8" x 5" - oil/panel

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"...The apprentice coddles the sable over raised brushstrokes (cursing away Style's tempts), corrects a skewed perspective and steps aside, humbly, in front of the seamless Illusion. Later he winces at overlooked edges and gasps at unsubtle hues..."

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-Doug Rugh

Time to be Nice

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"...It is hours of careful looking with a flourish at the end to make it look effortless...."

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Break the Pickle

Creation of Man by Michelangelo

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"..."Yes, that's right. That's break the pickle." We both stared at the picture, each of us trying to figure out who does the tickling..."

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Perpetuating a Might Have Been

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"...someone was quoted as saying that Degas had said (it may have been another person quoting something a little different from someone else): "Orange lightens, green neutralized and violet darkens." As a young art student I thought I had found the "secret" in an old library book because when I experimented..."

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The Temperature of a Painting

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"...Squint to see basic light or shadow falling on the table but open your eyes to see how temperature changes create the pattern. In this case the pattern reverses..."

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Michelangelo at the Coffee Shop

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"...Without signing the drawing I quickly walked out, leaving it on the table..."

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John Singer Sargent's Palette

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"...The perfect palette is an improvement on the arm..."

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Camera Obscura: Light in a Dark Room

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"Girl in a Red Hat" by Vermeer

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"...A friend who is an engineer that sends laser light to the moon visited the studio the other day and we got to talking about the camera obscura (a projected image box that Vermeer had access to.) Now, every few days he calls me into his office so can see the improvements on a rig he set up in his window..."

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Scribbling on the Tabula Rasa

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"...More recently she's started in on portraits. She'll say a name of someone in the family and draw a little blob. Then another name and another little amoeba. You can almost hear the cells dividing..."

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Pushing and Pulling

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"...only came to life as I pushed the paint around. I've found that there are two ways to make something up..."

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