Category: landscape
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A Drawing After Garden Designed by Roberto Burle Marx
According to an architect friend, world famous Brazilian landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx created the garden depicted in this drawing. The garden is located inside a nondescript shopping mall in a small town in the interior of São Paulo state. I had been visiting Brazil a few years back, and I headed to the mall…
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“Bottles”, 1977: Best Painting Currently On View At The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Bottles, 1977 There is a variety of cool art currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla in San Diego. But as far as pushing paint on the surface of a canvas, nothing comes near this painting by Philip Guston ( 1913 – 1980 ). And don’t get me wrong, a few…