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...militia movement that identified with his anti-government rage is dying off too. The last presidential election robbed the movement of two of its favorite villains: Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno. Now middle-aged men who used to tramp through forests in fatigues and war paint are back in front of their TVs sipping beer and watching the game. Nationwide, the number of active militia groups has plummeted, from a high of 858 in 1996 to 194 last year, according to figures from the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Alabama-based human-rights group. Dozens of websites that...
...some sort of lonely angelic visitation, popping up from nowhere. Every artist has aesthetic parents, brothers and sometimes offspring. But genius tends to be unpredictable, and a puzzling thing about Vermeer is that artistically he had no real progeny and no certain parentage. Nobody knows who taught him to paint, and his influence on younger Delft artists is too slight to bother with. He did no teaching, and no one imitated him. Moreover, most of the other Delft painters in his time (with one striking exception) pale by comparison with...
Flower arranging requires expert precision and creativity. Unlike an artists’ traditional tools of paint or marble, flowers can wilt, pale, droop and behave in other unmannerly ways. Yet this ephemeral nature of the flowers is what brings the works to life. “Art in Bloom” juxtaposes timeless canvases and temporary blossoms, and offers viewers the opportunity to see older works in a new light...
...exhibit even reveals a Mondrian strapped for time, as close microscopic investigation reveals flecks of paint he missed in his efforts to scrape away a color. The exhibit reveals when Mondrian painted on wet surfaces and when he had the time to delicately restretch his canvases...
Mondrian teeters on the edge of abstraction, with recognizable shapes but that have no apparent form. Though he painted in a smock and tie, he was untraditional in every way—he was the first to paint on a horizontal plane, carefully constructing his paintings on a table...