Painting

*Fight with Cudgels* by Francisco Goya

I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow. Francisco Goya From a conversation, quoted by L. Matheron, Goya, Paris, 1858

John Ruskin on J.M.W. Turner’s *The Slave Ship*

But, I think, the noblest sea that Turner has ever painted, and, if so, the noblest certainly ever painted by man, is that of the Slave Ship, the chief Academy picture of the Exhibition of 1840. It is a sunset on the Atlantic after prolonged storm; but the storm is partially lulled, and the torn and streaming rain-clouds are moving in scarlet lines to lose themselves in the hollow of

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Mystery and Motherhood: An Interview with Lindsay Hand

I stood in Lindsay Hand’s downtown art studio, feeling the creaks of the wooden floor beneath my feet and hearing the large building, filled with several art studios and offices, breath and shift slightly around me. I held a coffee I’d just purchased from the Starbucks down the street and smiled at Lindsay. Her short cropped, brunette hair was curly, and she cleared a space in her daughter’s corner of

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Lindsay Hand Art

The following links will take you to Lindsay Hand’s website and the US Represented interview “Mystery and Motherhood: An Interview with Lindsay Hand”: http://lindsayhand.com/ http://www.usrepresented.com/2014/11/10/mystery-motherhood-interview-lindsay-hand/