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Deborah Browder, a soft-spoken junior at the Boston Arts Academy, chose to depict civilization as a series of symbols emerging out of a pearly gray cloud: a city skyline with lightning, a blurry dove, a rose growing out of a dirty crack in a sidewalk. Her painting is extraordinarily evocative and sophisticated—especially the portrait of her family in the corner which almost looks like a photograph. “They don’t know that I’m painting them,” she smiled quietly. “It’s going...
...next pair of portraits focuses on Suzanne Valadon, a model-turned-artist who was a close friend and student of Toulouse Lautrec. Both “Young Woman at a Table, Poudre de Riz” (1887) and “The Hangover” (1887-1889) depict Valadon in an empty tavern, seated with her elbows propped up on a table. Devoid of the usual uproarious goings-on of a Paris nightclub, the scene in both paintings is sullen, pensive and lonely. A small tin of face powder at the table in the first painting exposes the naturalness...
...first group of images—which is also his oldest work—describes Bochner’s investigation of block structures constructed from a systematic arrangement of two-inch cubes. Grid-like and highly organized in both presentation and content, the photographs depict the formation of these assembled cubic modules and their dependence on a mathematically predetermined model. Schematic diagrams that are evidence of the work’s interest in seriality are shown in conjunction with several views of the block structures. As Bochner stated, this series is principally about the process rather than the object. Attempting...
Besides remaining silent for eight hours, some participants attracted attention outside the Science Center by taping their mouths and binding their hands—to depict how queer individuals are often forced to be silent...
Artists who followed in giot-to's footsteps were wowed by his ability to depict human emotions in actual settings. Leonardo da Vinci said Giotto "not only surpassed the masters of his own time, but all those of many preceding centuries." The latest restoration of Giotto's frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua - revealed last week after 10 months of meticulous work - provides fresh proof of da Vinci's words...