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The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries The goal is not to expose the “slipups” of the masters but to understand the human brain. Shadows do not continue from the floor up the wall on the right. Piero della Francesca, Polittico di Sant’Antonio (detail), 1460–1470. Perugia, Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria. Image credit: © Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria. By Roberto Ca..

고구려 고분벽화가 세계에서 가장 특별한 벽화인 이유는?[전승훈의 아트로드] 전승훈기자 동아일보, 2023-01-03 “고구려 고분벽화의 가장 독특한 점은 화강암 위에 직접 색을 칠해 그렸다는 점입니다. 동서양의 벽화가 대부분 벽에 석회를 칠한 바탕 위에 그린 것과 다릅니다. 화강암 위에 직접 천연안료를 발라 그린 고분벽화는 채색과 도상이 수려한 걸작입니다.” 고구려 고분벽화 복원 연구 전문가이자 문활람 작가(한국채색화)가 고구려 고분 벽화 바탕재 재현 기법에 대한 특허를 출원해 미술계에서 주목받고 있다. 그가 ‘화강말’로 이름 붙인 벽화 바탕재와 안료(특허등록번호 제10-2474297호)는 고구려 고분벽화 복원 연구에 큰 도움을 줄 것으로 기대되고 있다. 강서대묘 ‘현무’. 그가 고구려 고분벽화 복원과정..

The Disappearing Modernists Where did it all go wrong for so much music of the 20th century? By Mark N. Grant The American Scholar August 4, 2022 Sir Ernest MacMillan conducting the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation production, ca. 1947 (Wikimedia Commons) When Pablo Picasso was 18, his immortal greatness was not yet self-evident. As the historian and painter Pau..

Modern Art and the Esteem Machine Picasso was a joke. Then he was a god. How did his art finally take off in America? By Louis Menand The New Yorker, June 27, 2022 Making a market for Picasso and Matisse took decades—and many mediators.Illustration by Matt Chase Hugh Eakin’s new book, “Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America” (Crown), isn’t really about Picasso, or about war, or about art...

Art Eyewitness Review: Pompeii in Color The Life of Roman Painting at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Reviewed by Ed Voves The Easel Art Journalism Wednesday, February 9, 2022 Hercules and Omphale, 1st century CE (detail) Herculaneum When Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year 79, most of the unfortunate citizenry of Pompeii and nearby Herculaneum died quickly, if painfully. Deadly ..

장 베로(1849~1935), , 1880년대, 캔버스에 유채, 개인 소장. (한겨레신문 2022. 2. 19일 기사 "파리 ‘대개조’, 매끈한 도시화가 지워버린 사람들"에서 퍼 옴)

conversations How Nudity Both Reveals and Conceals Aysegül Savas, author of "White on White," on how a character can hide by revealing too much Photo by Tanya Pro on Unsplash Alyssa Songsiridej Alyssa Songsiridej - Electric Literature Alyssa Songsiridej’s debut novel, Little Rabbit, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in May 2022. Her work has appeared in StoryQuarterly, The Offing, The Indiana Revie..

What Will the “Metaverse” Do to Art and Culture? By Adam Stoneman Jacobin, 01.24.2022 By privileging immediacy and affect, virtual and augmented reality require us to submit to our senses. But culture is not just a matter of feeling — it is also a way of knowing and understanding the world. Mark Zuckerberg demonstrates a virtual reality headset during a press event. (David Paul Morris / Bloomber..

The Art Movement That Embraced the Monstrous Since its formation in the 1920s, surrealism has produced works that are unnerving, disturbing—and perversely appealing as well. An untitled work by Malangatana Ngwenya, 1967 (Tate) By Sophie Madeline Dess The Atlantic, January 10, 2022 To be on the internet today is to confront unsettling images—of war, climate change, humanitarian crises. Weird visu..

So much depends on the way a work is formatted By Lincoln Perry American Scholar March 2, 2020 Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola. (Alamy) Picture this. In the foreground, by a thatched farmhouse, a beautiful woman holds by the claws the chicken she’s just slaughtered, her white apron stained with blood. She talks, perhaps flirts, with an equally gorgeous hunter in leather, a hawk on his gloved ar..