What makes this a good painting? by Dieter Michael Feurich (#006)_A Painting speaks – Maurice de Vlaminck’s “La Seine à Chatou” [Fig. 1] Maurice de Vlaminck | 1906 | La Seine à Chatou | Oil on Canvas | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City A good painting speaks to us and demands a response […]
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A Thought on Art… by Dieter Michael Feurich A brief Conversation about Seeing and Art Tino: The park was so beautiful today. I took lots of pictures of the trees, their trunks and branches, with the sun playing in the leaves. There were golden, green, and brown colors everywhere. And yet, I feel I am not
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A Thought on Art… by Dieter Michael Feurich Rembrandt: Abraham’s Sacrifice (Etching in the Metropolitan Museum, New York City) I came across the etching “Abraham’s Sacrifice” by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1655, The Metropolitan Museum, New York [Fig. 1]. Rembrandt painted the same subject 20 years earlier in oil, see the painting in The State Hermitage
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What makes this a good painting? by Dieter Michael Feurich Paula Modersohn-Becker: Still Life with Sunflowers, Hollyhocks and Dahlias Modersohn-Becker painted the vase before a translucent background, (it looks like a light-colored curtain drawn before a window) so that it is backlit and the side of the vase facing us receives only the diffused light
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What makes this a good painting? by Dieter Michael Feurich Thiago Boecan: EC20-F2 The heading of this post category “What makes this a good painting?” implies that EC20-F2 is a good painting although discussions of works of art should not start with such presuppositions. Rather, we should ask first why we are talking about a
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What makes this a good painting? by Dieter Michael Feurich Introductory Post A good painting is good whether we particularly like it or not. In fact, the expressions ‘I like’ or worse ‘I love’ should not be used at all when judging art. There is good work and not-so-good work. And there is poor work.
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