Painter Sharon Sprung discusses the tools she uses to make art: a third-generation easel with a special pedigree, a transformed lithographers table, and an antique screen of oak panels.
Where and how we see art affects the quality of our experience. When we see art in a church that has been prayed in for centuries, something magical occurs, as if the art is spiritually alive.
What Makes a Masterpiece?
An Elegant Unrest in Portraits by Rembrandt and Eakins
Jun 2, 2015, 2:15 PM
Great paintings stimulate thoughts and feelings that take us beyond the four corners of the canvas and then they bring us back; we crave to see the image again and again, our responses only deepening with time.
The brush is used in service of the subject, beautifully descriptive and probing, capturing what is essential to the subject with an economy of means.
“I’ve found that the meditative process of layering the thin, delicate brushstrokes that make up the surface of a tempera painting has the effect of imparting an intimate stillness to even the most active composition.”
I enjoy engaging thoughts of the creative mind, irrespective of the field.
As I thought about which books are most important to me and my development as an artist, it gradually dawned on me that it would not be a reading list.
My studio is a huge warehouse with splendid view in Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY, which I share spaces with five other artists. I’ve been living in New York almost four years now, and discovered the area from other groups of artists who worked there.
We carry on conversations with great books over the years, and as we change, the works change with us. A must-have list of ten books for artists.