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"In Paris you have the Saint Chapelle and the Louvre, true enough, but we in Chicago kill eighty thousand hogs a day!..." The man who says that is in truth a business man.... Leon Bloy

Thursday, April 02, 2026

Contemporary Landscape painting found online

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Alex Kanevsky So vibrant. He loves to play with pictorial space just as Cezanne did. Francisco Escalera Gonzalez, b. 1965, Spain Gorgeou...

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Drunken Sword Calligraphy

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Molly Zuckerman Hartung violent, unpredictable, improvisational, execution loose but composition tight. Perfection is sacrificed to ...

Saturday, March 21, 2026

Contemporary Figurative Painting found online

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ONGOING as I find them ************* Jenna Gribbon Such a gift for composition She must see the world as painting non- stop Jenna Gribb...

Friday, March 20, 2026

Sunday morning at the Art Institute of Chicago

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With two new special exhibits, it was time to visit the museum before my membership expires. I was going to review them, but as it turned ...

Saturday, October 18, 2025

Abstract Chicago III :From Chicago to Gowanus

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Has anything like a comprehensive exhibition of Chicago abstract artists ever been mounted in Chicago? None that I can recall, but now on...

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chris miller: I live life dangerously by ignoring the advice of Chuang Tzu: "Your life has a limit but knowledge has none. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you will be in danger". Badly spoiled by my wife, I spend mornings in sculpture studio, afternoons in record shop, evenings on the internet, weekends at the Palette and Chisel Academy and Art Institute of Chicago,

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