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Color Field Photography

by Marko June 13, 2021June 19, 2021

You're probably familiar with color field painting or at least you've seen some of it even if you didn't know the name for it. Usually super large canvases with blocks of flat color ...

Andy Warhol and Brillo boxes

Photography and the End of Art

by Mark Whitney April 25, 2021April 25, 2021

It's April 1964, New York. Philosopher and art critic Arthur Danto is at the Stable Gallery on East 74th street to see an exhibition of work by pop artist Andy Warhol. The encounter ...

Garage Door (Haags Alley, Rochester) by Minor White 1960

Minor White: Garage Door 1960

by Mark Whitney November 29, 2020December 12, 2020

Minor White isn't a household name like Ansel Adams but he was one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. He was the photographer's photographer. While Adams was making a splash ...

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The Day Photography Changed

by Mark Whitney July 4, 2020December 5, 2020
Our world was created by William Eggleston over 40 years ago.
Digital Art by Mark D. Whitney

I Try My Hand at Digital Art

by Mark Whitney January 20, 2020January 20, 2020

The other day I was reading about Vincent Van Gogh and how after moving to Paris he shifted from the muted color tones of the typical Dutch master painters to a more colorful ...

Ariadne's Afternoon by Richard Serra

Ariadne’s Afternoon

by Mark Whitney January 4, 2020January 4, 2020

The last painting on our blogseum tour of finding the story in art is Ariadne's Afternoon from 1982 by Richard Serra. Hmmmm, not much to go on here. Is there a story in ...

Casey Jones by Edwin Fulwider

Casey Jones by Edwin Fulwider

by Marko December 29, 2019December 29, 2019

Here we have "Casey Jones" - a painting done in 1939 by Edwin Fulwider. Fulwider was a Hoosier born in Bloomington Indiana in 1913.

Obviously the main feature here ...

The Gathering of Manna by Ottavio Vannini

The Gathering of Manna (Il miracolo della manna)

by Mark Whitney December 20, 2019December 29, 2019

As I promised in the opening post for this tour on finding the story in art, this is "The Gathering of Manna" painted by Ottavio Vannini in 1635.

But ...

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Finding the Story in Art

by Mark Whitney November 29, 2019December 20, 2019

My next few posts are going to be about looking at art works and finding the stories they tell. Some of the stories are easy to find and some take a little digging, ...

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Why Bother?

by Mark Whitney September 28, 2019September 28, 2019
"No one is interested in my art so why should I even bother doing it?" This thought has crossed my mind way more that once.
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Geometric Photography

by Mark Whitney July 27, 2019July 27, 2019

A while back I had the chance to photograph an old steel bridge that spanned the Erie canal. It had been declared unsafe for traffic and was blocked off for a couple years ...

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