Tag: art
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March 15, 2016
A few years ago, I went to the Walker Art Museum here in Minneapolis to see an exhibit that featured Edward Hopper’s sketches and studies and some of his finished paintings. There was a painting in that exhibit that I’ve been trying to find ever since. I can’t remember the title of it, but it…
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August 13, 2015
I’ve had this artwork by Natalie scotch-taped to my wall for eight years. Here are the words next to the drawing: “In Edward Tulane my favorite part is when he growes wings and tried to fly away but all his owners where pulling him back.” I looked at Natalie’s art this morning and thought: good…
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April 9, 2015
Here is one of my favorite quotes about making art. It’s from Howard Ikemoto: “When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college – that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me,…
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April 4, 2013
One of the best things about receiving a letter from a kid is that artwork often (usually) comes along with it. For instance, here is a picture of Edward Tulane with wings by a third-grader named Ian. I have had Ian’s art hanging in my office for the last month or so. Every time I…
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August 2, 2012
There is a painting I love by Vuillard called “The Artist’s Mother Opening a Door.” Whenever I go to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, I seek it out. I’m not sure why the painting moves me so. I think that it has something to do with the door being only halfway open, and the figure…
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August 11, 2011
In my senior year of high school, our English teacher Toni Bell (we called her Ma Bell) introduced us to art. Every afternoon, the slide projector was set up and the lights were dimmed and we sat and looked at paintings by Cassatt and Monet and Degas and Renoir and Picasso and Van Gogh and…