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I recall two favorite desserts from childhood. One was layer cake. Pan cakes were always a relative disappointment. I missed the beauty of those layers. The other was apple strudel. Again, it was those delicate multiple pastry layers that appealed … Continued
I remember a childhood family vacation which included Niagara Falls. As I looked over the rail into the Horseshoe Canadian falls I felt an animal magnetism to enter the rush of falling water. The sensation was both awe inspiring and … Continued
Mapping cities was one of the earliest modes for picturing them. From the Tang dynasty of ancient China to European concepts of ideal cities in the early Italian Renaissance we have pictured cities as we conceive and desire them to … Continued
How we look at the world has driven the range of responses to how we paint it. A hierarchical culture will generate art reflecting those values. Impressionists rebelled against the rigid formula of careful edge delineation of the style of … Continued
Artists of the 18th century toyed with the imaginative uses of linear perspective. From Piranesi to Canaletto to Hogarth, artists built believable architectural spaces testing the limits of linear perspective. For example, Piranesi described domes, cylindrical buildings and complex fantasy … Continued
Coats of arms have historically been signifiers, I.D.’s, logos placed on shields, above doorways and high in great halls. We looked up to our ancestors and symbolized them to reinforce our own identity. I remember my mother painstakingly painting a … Continued