by Jasper Carpenter | Apr 1, 2019 | Writings
Vincent Desiderio: Painting and the Bigger Picture by David Molesky Vincent Desiderio — Men in Snow, 2016 | oil on canvas, 77 x 97 in. First published in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine — March/April 2019 After graduating from Haverford College and the Pennsylvania...
by Jasper Carpenter | Mar 31, 2019 | Writings
The Lost Motifs of Rembrandt’s Late Pictures by David Molesky Rembrandt’s self portrait as it hangs in its temporary home at the Breuer building on Madison Avenue in New York City. First published in TRACT — March 31, 2019 As outlined in my previous essay “Pliny...
by Jasper Carpenter | Mar 28, 2019 | Writings
Pliny and the Dutch Guild by David Molesky Art Johans de Gelder — Self Portrait while drawing an old woman, 1685 | oil on linen, 142 x 169 cm First published as “Poets to Artists” in TRACT — March 28, 2019 As we know from evolutionary science, the human ability to...
by Jasper Carpenter | Mar 1, 2019 | Writings
Neo Rauch: Mechanic of Dreams by David Molesky Neo Rauch working in his studio in Leipzig, Germany. First published in Juxtapoz Magazine, web and print — Spring, 2019 Neo Rauch once expanded a variation on Descartes’ famous meditation and said, “I dream...
by Jasper Carpenter | Feb 1, 2019 | Writings
Guillermo Lorca’s Painted Operas by David Molesky Guillermo Lora — Tre girls, 2015 | oil on canvas, 140×210 cm First published in Fine Art Connoisseur in print — January/February, 2019 The Chilean artist Guillermo Lorca (b. 1984) and I first met about a...
