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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Fuse Visual Arts Book Review: Looking at Paintings Beyond the Comfort Zone by Gary Schwartz

Daniel Arasse’s method has been defined by his students as “looking, [taking] pleasure and [being] imprudent.” Any and every detail of a work of art can serve as his starting point.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:14AM

Friday, May 10, 2013

Fuse Visual Arts: The New Rijksmuseum — A Revelation by Gary Schwartz

Respect for the building and its makers, respect for the historical study of art, respect for the visitor’s relation to the displays. These are qualities that I find in the New Rijksmuseum…

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:14AM

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Fuse Book Review: “The Melancholy Art” — Art History and Depression by Gary Schwartz

If I suffered half as much from the thought that most art has been lost as I suffer every day from the recollection of departed family and friends, I would be in a mental hospital. In this s…

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:29AM

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Fuse Visual Arts/ Book Review: “Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures” — A Treat for Word-and-Image Fans by Gary Schwartz

"Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures" is indispensable reading for word-and-image freaks and a treat for fans of virtuoso scholarship.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:44AM

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Fuse Visual Arts Feature: Museums in the East, Part One by Gary Schwartz

In the first few days of our first visit to China, I was nonetheless unable to keep myself from formulating a hypothesis. In China the distinction between art, artifice and artificiality is …

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:37AM

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Fuse Visual Arts: Rembrandt, Rubens, the Beau Sancy and the Jew by Gary Schwartz

The history of the Beau Sancy took me back to the years around 1640, when it passed into and out of the orbit of the greatest Netherlandish artists of the day, the Dutchman Rembrandt and the…

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:20AM

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Fuse Visual Arts: Chopped liver at Woburn Abbey by Gary Schwartz

The world press has announced that a painting of an old man in Woburn Abbey, England, has been newly discovered to be an authentic Rembrandt. Gary Schwartz is incensed that the abbey is prac…

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:59PM

Monday, January 30, 2012

Fuse Visual Arts: Me and Philip Guston by Gary Schwartz

Our discussions always took the same turn. Philip Guston attempted to convince me that artists like Piero della Francesca and the cave painters of Lascaux were in the first place abstraction…

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:16PM

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Fuse Visual Arts: Pieter Saenredam Comes Home Again by Gary Schwartz

The places where Pieter Saenredam worked were never the same after he committed them to paper and paint. His single known painting of a building in Amsterdam -– of the old town hall –- b…

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:01PM

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