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Painting
The conversation between canvas and consciousness. From Caravaggio's chiaroscuro to Rothko's color fields. Explorations in art history, technique, and the eternal question of what painting can express that nothing else can.
Caravaggio: Painting with Light and Shadow
The divine made visible through tenebrism. How a violent, brilliant painter invented a new way of seeing that would influence everyone from Rembrandt to cinema. An examination of light as spiritual force.
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The Impressionists' Rebellion
Paris, 1874. Monet, Renoir, Degas reject the Salon and change art forever. The science of light, the freedom of the brushstroke, painting en plein air.
Rothko's Color Fields
Standing before a Rothko is a religious experience. The chapel in Houston, the Seagram murals, how pure color can access the sublime.
Picasso and the Destruction of Form
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Guernica, the endless reinvention. How one artist contained multitudes and shattered every rule of representation.
Francis Bacon: The Scream of the Body
Twisted popes, caged figures, the violence of existence made visible. Bacon's triptychs confront us with truths we'd rather not see.
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
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