While even the most rigid art critic would have to concede the role of the beholder in matters of taste, rarely has a body of work addressed this concept so directly as that of Josep Baqué’s oeuvre. Comprised of 1,500 numbered illustrations of imaginary creatures, the Catalonian artist (1895-1967) assembled them in a bound bestiary sometime before...
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Visionary Art
Categories / Esoteric Art / Folk Art / Illustration / Outsider Art / Painting / Surrealism / Visionary Art
JOSEP BAQUÉ
ANABEL LEINER
The SCOPE NYC Art Fair ended this past weekend and despite grabbing every flyer and press booklet (not to mention a thorough scouring of its entire website) I’ve still no clue why it is spelled all-caps. One assumes it is some sort of acronym, but what? (Serious Connoisseurs Of Personal Effort?) We critics always manage to find...
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Brooklyn Art / Discussion - Ephemera / Esoteric Art / Painting / Sculpture / Studio Visit / Surrealism / Visionary Art
DISCUSSION: MATT MARELLO
For regular followers of this blog here is something brand new. We the editors (Brian Chidester and Alessandro Keegan) were given first access to artist Matt Marello‘s new series of works, which may or may not comprise his next solo exhibition, but which as of this writing has no firm date established. As such Marello personally...
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