Depending on what I was struggling with in class in the morning, I’d study how various artists solved that very problem during my evenings at the Metropolitan.
This seventeenth-century woman seems so completely connected with her surroundings and the present moment that a very ordinary scene begins to be elevated to a whole new level.
In celebration of the Metropolitan Museum’s encyclopedic holdings, “Take Five” is a series of posts where artists describe the lessons that any five works in the collection have taught them about their craft or life as an artist.
Painter Sharon Sprung discusses the tools she uses to make art: a third-generation easel with a special pedigree, a transformed lithographers table, and an antique screen of oak panels.
Where and how we see art affects the quality of our experience. When we see art in a church that has been prayed in for centuries, something magical occurs, as if the art is spiritually alive.