It is said that the biggest challenge for an artist is to find his way, his own voice. At the beginning of the learning process, technical achievements and execution skills attract all the attention. Then comes the admiration for other...

Things happen in mysterious ways. Not so many years ago, an artist acquired notoriety through a slow and laborious pathway made of exhibitions, galleries and collectors to end up hopefully in the biennial and public recognition. Nowadays, social media has...

A workshop memory I remember that, during a workshop I attended years ago, Antonio López held an informal colloquium at the end of the day. Urged by the questions, he talked to us about painting and painters; about his predilections...

A Nicolás Uribe Workshop in Madrid Nicolás Uribe has been recently teaching one of The Art Digger workshops at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Madrid. I think I am not wrong if I interpret the general feeling of all...

The artistic fluctuations of Sangram Majumdar between the figurative and the abstract, or in that hybrid in-between, as he calls it, seem to be a reflection of his own personal story. He was born in Calcutta, India, and moved to...

In March of 2015 I had the opportunity to interview Master painter Florencio Galindo in his study of Avila. A year and a half later he passed away. This video shows a summary of that afternoon of conversation in which...

In the early part of 1649, the spanish painter Diego de Silva Velázquez received a commission from King Philip IV to travel to Italy. Among his other courtly functions as valet de chambre to the King, Velázquez was in charge...

That purity of heart that genuinely good men possess is plainly visible in Miguel Coronado. And when it comes to painting, this honest artist speaks passionately and perhaps, as he says himself, a bit too loudly. Invariably good humored, he’s...

Stuart Shils told me the following anecdote during my conversation with him. While on one of his summers in Italy with JSS (Jerusalem Studio School), he went to view Piero della Francesca’s painting The Flagellation of Christ with a group...

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