NORTHFIELD – Artist John S. Smith VIII sometimes changes reality with his paintings. Working from photographs he has taken, he exercises his artistic license to add or eliminate details to enhance his ...
FERNANDO AMORSOLO was a beloved painter known for capturing what was perceived to be the essence of the Philippine identity, so much so that he became the country’s first-ever National Artist. At the ...
Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism, by Barry Schwabsky (DAP, April 2019) Art critic Barry Schwabsky’s new book, Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New ...
As art and cultural historian Simon Schama has explained, the term “landscape” originated from Dutch and German etymology – literally speaking of shaping the land as a cultural activity. It is ...