There are only so many summers
Urgency is built into life. When we pass on, the world we created and lived in and all the possibilities we entertained are gone forever.
The urge to create: lessons from prehistoric cave painters
Cave art tells us that prehistoric man thought about something beyond their material existence. Does our art have meaning that transcends our culture?
Monday Morning Art School: who’s painting—you or the camera?
The camera is an extraordinary tool, but it has no imagination. Stop treating photographs as masters and start treating them as servants.
The difference between illustration and narrative painting
A painting can be competent and still feel contrived. It can be imaginative but feel trite. It can tell a literal story or be allegorical. How can you tell where you’re headed?
Painters who invented the past
Art determines what reality looks like in our collective imagination. For example, how much do movies and television shape what you think you know about the world?