Ol' Naive ArtThe Wonderful Horror of Goya’s Fight to the Death with CudgelsDon’t drop your fife in the shower5 min read·Sep 8, 2022--1--1
Ol' Naive ArtGabriel Metsu’s Plague Drama, The Sick ChildThe painting tells a story through its colors. The Boy recumbent atop the ultramarine and incarnadine robes of the Madonna. His gaunt frame…3 min read·Aug 6, 2022----
Ol' Naive ArtJean-François Millet’s Benighted PastOr how Futurists stole my patrimony and made me into the Rubenesque creature I am today5 min read·Jul 20, 2022----
Ol' Naive ArtMoreau’s Galatea: Poseidon Eat Your Heart Out: Your Son’s a Depthless IncelI’ve noticed that museums often don’t know what to do with Moreau — too ahead of his time for rank among his coevals, but not famous…8 min read·Feb 9, 2022----
Ol' Naive ArtPablo Picasso’s “The Swimmer”: How to Take the Model out of the DrawingPablo Picasso’s “The Swimmer” is a sort of key to much of the painter’s other, more abstract figure drawings.3 min read·Jan 13, 2022----
Ol' Naive ArtSaint Jerome sans Lion; De La Tour’s Reimagination of your Favorite Saintly ZaddyGeorges De La Tour’s radical depiction of Saint Jerome makes significant departures from those of his peers like Leonardo Da Vinci, Lotto…5 min read·Jan 12, 2022----
Ol' Naive ArtThe Prado’s Best History Painting: Queen Joanna the [S]ad by Francisco PadillaPadilla paints a stunning and sympathetic portrait of future feminist icon, Queen Joanna “the mad”4 min read·Jan 7, 2022----
Ol' Naive ArtSorolla’s Classical Swerve “Despues Del Baño”Joaquín Sorolla’s brief classical dalliance is more than meets the eye4 min read·Jan 6, 2022----
Ol' Naive ArtPomar’s Masterpiece of Motion (Red or no?)A long winded encomium on Pomar’s sexy Gadanheiro3 min read·Jan 5, 2022----
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