Interview by UK graduate student for thesis Interviewer Name Unknown. 1980s 1. I am particularly interested in your work which shows a classical sensibility. Do you desire to restore or to breathe life on ancient myth? 2. Is mythology used as a pretext for painting...
Dionysian Classicism – Propositions Statement for 1989 One-person exhibition, Gil Einstein Company, NYC Recently I returned from Moscow after participating in the exhibition Painting Beyond the Death of Painting, curated by Donald Kuspit. My experience of...
Statement for 1989 One-person exhibition, Gil Einstein Company, NYC Recently I returned from Moscow after participating in the exhibition Painting Beyond the Death of Painting, curated by Donald Kuspit. My experience of Russian culture and insight received from the...
Valuing Nature: The Imperative of Being, 2002 The inquiry, “Valuing Nature,” was first prompted by critique of an attempt to assess the natural world’s economic value. Later the inquiry was broadened so that “Valuing Nature” could be viewed from a variety of...
Venetian Painting as an Incarnation of Joyous Humanism and Secular Spirituality The Venetian Religious Paintings of Dionysos and Eros at the National Gallery of Art These are “terrible” times and it would be beautiful and even “spiritually” therapeutic for the New...
Poussin: Organic Classicism Foreword Now, in 2008, the Metropolitan Museum has decided to celebrate Poussin and Nature. The following article from fourteen years ago has some relevance to both this exhibition and our current understanding of how we evaluate nature....