On this day in 1888, which is 130 years ago, Vincent Van Gogh cut of a piece of his right ear in a bout of anguish brought on by his fight with Paul Gauguin, who was leaving Arles and their shared yellow house. Earlier in the evening Gauguin had threatened Vincent with a saber, and…
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Because I find some of the most striking visual art when prowling through people’s Instagram posts. @trude_viken Trude Viken is an artist I discovered while searching #contemporaryart, and is a perfect example of why I am sharing Instagram posts. Normally we get our art filtered through art publications and critics. It comes with the stamp…
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My most consistent body of work is my digitally created drawings and paintings, mostly completely from my imagination. Most of these also feature my illusionistic “digital impasto” techniques, which I began working with about 8 years ago in an attempt to achieve digitally what I most missed about traditional painting. My objective is direct: I…
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Art & Crit by Eric Wayne 
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