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 “The artist recognizes the unknown as a workable reality”   ~Cornelia Kubler Kavanagh, Sculptor     Right: Pablo Picasso, Nude, Green leaves and Bust (1932). Private Collection  OOOH my Goodness! With more record-setting prices being realized in the art auction market recently, ARTES fine arts magazine in asking the question: is the economy showing signs of [...]

 “Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.” ~Gwendolyn Brooks, American Poet (1917-2000)   Left: Joan Miro, Woman, Bird and Stars (1942), Gouache on paper. Private Collection  The colorful harbingers of spring feel like Rococo embellishments at the end of a winter survivor’s tale. While this one was historically mild, turning the [...]

  “I owe you the truth in painting and I will tell it to you.” ~Paul Cézanne     Illustration: Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519), Seated Woman, c. 1495. Coll: British Museum ARTES, the fine arts magazine, continues to grow, reaching a broader, international audience. Working in partnership with organizations like Washington, D.C.-based Smithsonian Institution [...]

  “Art plucks its material, otherwise unexpressed, in the garden of life.” ~Henry James, The Ambassaors   It seems fitting, during Presidents’ Birthday month, here in the U.S., to feature the last photograph taken of Abraham Lincoln before his assassination in April 1865 (left). The burdens and losses brought on by civil strife and personal [...]

   “Pictures must not be too picturesque.”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson       Illustration (left): Pablo Picasso, Grande Tete de Femme au Chapeau Orne (1962), block print. Private collection Eye on the Future: The Pottery Wheel-of-Fortune All of us at ARTES, fine arts magazine, wish you a happy and healthy New Year. There has been [...]

  “Art is either plagiarism or revolution.” ~Paul Gauguin   Image, left: Mary Cassatt, Maternal Caress (1890-91), dry point. Private collection   Who Knows Where the Time Goes? ARTES, the fine arts magazine, looks back on another busy year. We have grown beyond expectations in 2011. Readership is up exponentially, our writers write and readers [...]

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”  ~Aristotle   Illustration: Hans Hoffmann, Squirrel Eating Hazel Nuts, w/c on vellum (1578)   ARTES is Building its Social Network…Join Us! ARTES, the fine arts magazine, is looking to make a difference. We invite you to join our [...]