Detail, Interior, Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1480-1515, oil on panel, center 7’ 2½” x 6’ 4½”, wings, each 7’ 2½” x 3’ 2”, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Late one night, a young woman named Amelia, a college student at Oklahoma Christian University, noticed that Hieronymus Bosch painted music on the rear end of a figure in the scene of Hell in his Garden of Earthly Delights, and so … Continue reading
John Baldessari, I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, 1971, lithograph, 22 3/8
It will take you a little more than five minutes to view this terrific video on the artist John Baldessari. Happy Friday.
Walton Ford, Nila, 1999-2000, watercolor, gouache, ink, and pencil on paper, 144” x 216”, Photo by La Petite Claudine (Flickr) under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
Walton Ford’s watercolors are magnificent. The contemporary artist paints the natural world on an enormous scale. This watercolor of an elephant, when all twenty-two panels are placed together, is life-size. The painting is meticulous. The detail is exacting. It is … Continue reading