Tag: painting

• October 10, 2026

  Paintings: Making Something out of Nothing

  My art colleagues and I are relatively new to grading visual analysis papers. Consequently, there have been many passionate discussions about marking rubrics and the responses we encounter in examination scripts. One particularly memorable disagreement concerned René Magritte’s The Human Condition. A student proposed that behind the easel, which blends almost seamlessly into the landscape, might…
• August 9, 2026

  Museo Capodimonte (Naples)

  Perched high above Naples, the Museo di Capodimonte is not the most accessible destination. Reaching it requires a conscious decision and a journey away from the bustling historic centre. Yet, that very effort became part of the experience for me. This museum may not be the largest museum in Italy, but it possesses a collection…
• March 7, 2026

  Art and the More Beautiful Question

  Pablo Picasso once famously said, “Computers are useless. They only give you answers.” The remark may have sounded provocative when it was first made, but Picasso might have been onto something. In a world where computers place almost every form of knowledge at our fingertips, answers have become easier to obtain than ever before. What has become…
• January 29, 2025

  Georgian Museum of Fine Arts

  The Museum I found myself in the enigmatic city of Tsibilisi during my latest vacation. The Caucasus country has always had a reputation for its safety and natural beauty.I was intrigued by this experience even though I wasn’t ready for the cold that my skin took weeks to recover from. On my initial days there,…
• November 16, 2024

  Introducing Murillo

  Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was lauded as the greatest Spanish painter of his time somewhere during the seventeenth century at the height of the Baroque. He was a Carravigisti which translates roughly to ‘follower of Caravaggio.’ His predecessor frequently got the bad rep as the outlaw whose paintings were as dark as his swarthy physical appearance and…
• February 3, 2024

  Tropical : Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America

  This exhibition explores the fascinating parallelism between Southeast Asia and Latin America in our mutual common identity and shared aspirations. The aftermath of colonialism for us that culminated in artistic heroes on both sides of the world challenging the narrative and resulting in the building a sense of special fellowship. Offering more than two hundred…