ARTES MAGAZINE

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”   ~Francis Bacon   Left: Yoshitora (active circa 1840 – 1880)  Lovely Beauty Design (1870). Private collection   Losing Your Head in New York ARTES, a fine arts magazine, is always on the lookout for cool images that could fit the old adage: art is [...]

“A child sees everything in a state of newness; he is always drunk.”    ~Charles Baudelaire   Left: Part of a mosaic pavement with the personification of the month of April. Early 6th century, stone and marble. From Thebes, Chalkis, 23rd Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities. Photo: © Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism.  ARTES, a fine [...]

“Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.” ~John Singer Sargent       Left: Lucian Freud, The Hon. Colin Tennant (1968). Private collection   Convergences When the arts and sciences intersect, the product of those partnerships is often greater than the sum of their parts. In a recent trend that is, after all, [...]

“The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.” ~Francisco de Goya  Left: Henri Matisse, The Dream (Le rêve), 1935. Collection Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Casting Call! ARTES, a fine arts magazine, is approaching its fourth anniversary. A concerted effort by a small group of [...]

 “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”    ~Stella Adler, Actress & Acting Teacher     Left: Hans Memling, Portrait of a Young Man (c. 1480). Private  Collection. One Degree of Separation We are all residents of Newtown, Connecticut. When tragedy struck that community, less than an hour [...]

“Anyone who says you can’t see a thought simply doesn’t know art.” ~Wynetka Ann Reynolds  Left: Arthur Leipzig, Sleeping Child (1949)   Why are these people laughing? As editor of ARTES, a fine arts magazine, I sometimes find myself considering events around the world in the context of threats posed to fine art, architecture and [...]

 “Oh, what a friend chance can be when it chooses.” ~Winslow Homer (written in pencil on his studio wall, Prout’s Neck, Maine)  Above: Bodhisattva Padmapani (‘the bearer of lotus’), Artist unknown (ca. late 5th c.). Cave painting, in situ, Cave 1,  at Ajanta, Maharashtra, India. Stealing Away Our Personal History… ARTES, a fine arts magazine, has [...]

  “I owe you the truth in painting and I will tell it to you.” ~Paul Cézanne     Left: Henri Matisse, Seated Pink Nude (Nu rose assis [Le Torse]), 1935-36. Private Collection Taking this ‘Columbus Day Moment’ to Consider… As we enter the autumn season as a time for gathering in and nesting for [...]

  “If you want to draw, shut your eyes and sing.” ~Pablo Picasso   Left: Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Jean-Louis Pascal (1893)     “August—die she must; September, I remember…”  ARTES, the fine arts magazine, is beginning its fourth year of publication and, in the words of the Simon and Garfunkle song, April Come She [...]

 “All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” ~Federico Fellini   Left: Henri Matisse, Self-Portrait (1906), o/c. Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark. Global Reach!  ARTES fine arts magazine (pronounced: ar-TESS) continues to reach a wider international audience and attract a cadre of writers working in the art world. The unique format [...]