Studio and Garden
by Altoon Sultan
March 10, 2016
A New Textile: "Blue Squares"
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Blue Squares , hand dyed wool on linen, 10 x 23 1/2 in. After the more complex compositions of my last two textiles, which you can...
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March 7, 2016
Early American Portraiture: Paint Becomes "Thing"
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John Brewster Jr., John Colley and Martha Colley , ca. 1820; oil on canvas. There is a quality in early American painting, espe...
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February 29, 2016
Two New Clay Reliefs
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Circles , porcelain with acrylic paint, 8 1/2 x 9 3/8 x 3/4 in. There's still so much about clay that I have to learn, but I...
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February 25, 2016
A New Painting: "Angled Bar"
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Angled Bar , egg tempera on calfskin parchment, 8 7/8 x 6 1/2 in. I feel as though I put umpteen layers of paint on this piece, tryin...
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February 22, 2016
A Beautiful Grief: Petrus Christus' "Lamentation"
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Petrus Christus, The Lamentation , ca. 1450; oil on wood, 10 x 13 3/4 in. My photograph. My favorite European painting gallerie...
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February 17, 2016
A New Textile: "Four Triangles"
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Four Triangles , hand dyed wool on linen, 18 x 20 in. Three equilateral triangles, sewn together at their corners, create a fourth...
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February 13, 2016
A New Painting: "Tall Red"
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Tall Red , egg tempera on calfskin parchment, 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. Red is a difficult color because it is both dark and intense: go ...
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February 10, 2016
Some Contemporary Painting at the Met
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Lee Krasner, Rising Green , 1972; oil on canvas, 82 3/8 x 69 1/4 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently reinstalled their con...
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February 7, 2016
Adventures with Clay: Trial by Fire
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Porcelain, 8 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 7/8 in. This does not happen with painting! when a painting is done, it's a success or a failure, b...
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February 3, 2016
Retreating Snow
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Last winter was a season of bitter cold and snow; this year winter couldn't be more different. I wrote happily about the late arri...
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