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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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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