How much artists talk about their work varies greatly. Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund Freud, allows his figurative paintings to speak for themselves, foregoing extensive verbal explication. By contrast, Marianne von Werefkin and Wassily Kandinsky, representatives of German expressionism,…
The Frog-Headed Character is modeled on Prince, a Michigan frog who sat on my driveway shortly after we built our house near the Sleeping Bear Dunes, MI. I was trying to drive down the driveway, but he refused to move…
River of life that flows on,’ Troels said, looking at this painting. My husband, the geometer Troels Jorgensen, often saw the patterns that connect water, sand, and change. The body of water depicted here is called North Bar Lake, within…
Inspired by Karl Zipser’s storm video, Birgit Zipser paints Lake Michigan’s fierce waves at Empire Village beach
In 2009, when I posted my painting Yellow Canoe on the now dormant blog artandperception.com, someone told me about Peter Doig’s canoe paintings. That was the first time I really looked at his work, and I was struck by how…