Cleveland Art, May/June 2015
- Member Magazine
In this issue of the members magazine: My Dakota; Monotypes; Leonardo's Lira; Teens Take Charge; Solstice; Parade the Circle.
Unique Prints
A monotype is a unique work of art. The artist creates a design with ink or paint on a nonabsorbent flat, smooth surface, covers it with a sheet of paper, and runs it through a press or prints it by hand. While capturing the spontaneity of the artist’s first impulse, a monotype produces a result tha...
Leonardo’s Lira
When drawings curator Heather Lemonedes asked me to look at images and captions for the museum’s Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints exhibition, I was excited to do so. As a music historian, my task was to confirm that the musical subjects depicted were accurately described. Dealing w...
Body, Mind, and Cosmos
Whether we see traditional Chinese paintings through the contemporary lens or we try to approach contemporary ink art from a cultural and historical perspective, it is evident that the aesthetics of the Chinese brush and ink is never out of fashion. Significantly enough, it plays a role in linking C...