An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is a painter and the author of Evolution Through Art and Newberry Color Theory. The full 29-work list of short commentaries is below. Michael Newberry, Commentaries on 29 Great Art Works 1. Geometric Warrior, 8th century BCE 2. Kroisos, 540-515 BCE […]
Eugène Delacroix | “Odalisque” (1825) [Newberry on Great Art series] Read More »
From Richard Osborne’s biography Herbert von Karajan, on an event in war-torn Vienna as it was struggling back to life after a cold winter in the last stage of World War Two: “Then the Russians arrived. For three weeks in April 1945, Russian soldiery ran amok in and orgy of pillage and rape, before Stalin
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An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is an avant-garde figurative painter, writer, and teacher promoting evolutionary flourishing through his work. He does this through advances in color theory, body language, symbolism, and composition. Michael is the author of two books released in 2021: Evolution Through Art and Newberry
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | “Grand Odalisque” (1814) [Newberry on Great Art series] Read More »
An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is an figurative painter, writer, and the author of two books released in 2021: Evolution Through Art and Newberry Color Theory. Below is full 29-work list is below of his brief commentaries on major art works. Michael Newberry, Commentaries on 29
Rembrandt van Rijn | “Self Portrait” (1629) [Newberry on Great Art series] Read More »
An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry, is an avant-garde figurative painter, writer and teacher promoting evolutionary flourishing through his work. He does this through advances in color theory, body language, symbolism, and composition. Michael is the author of two books released in 2021: Evolution Through Art and Newberry
Rembrandt van Rijn | “Anatomy Lesson” (1632) [Newberry on Great Art series] Read More »
The teenaged Rodin applied for admission to the École des Beaux-Arts. But: “Rodin, who competed for the first time at seventeen, failed to gain admission — not once but three times within eighteen months. The humiliation of these rebuffs was scarcely lessened by the fact that the examiners acknowledged his gift for drawing but rejected
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(Reprising this post on my favorite biography.) I finished Anthony Holden’s Tchaikovsky (Random House, 1995), an outstandingly well-written account of the great composer’s life. Here is an indication of the young Pyotr’s aptitude for music: “Tchaikovsky’s parents entertained a Polish pianist of their acquaintance, who naturally gave an evening concert for the thin line of
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An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry, is an avant-garde figurative painter, writer and teacher promoting evolutionary flourishing through his work. He does this through advances in color theory, body language, symbolism, and composition. Michael is the author of two books released in 2021: Evolution Through Art and Newberry
Jan Vermeer | “Girl with a Red Hat” (1667) [Newberry on Great Art series] Read More »