Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Form and Colour

John Ruskin's "Modern Painters" Vol. 1

The artist who sacrifices or forgets a truth of form in the pursuit of a truth of colour, sacrifices what is definite to what is uncertain, and what is essential to what is accidental.


Wednesday, September 14, 2005

A Tale of Two Cities

The Summer of Competing Attractions


Ottawa- National Gallery of Canada: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and the Renaissance in Florence.

Toronto – Art Gallery of Ontario: The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art

Florence wins.