Fine Art Registry® Columnist/Guest Author
Dan Koon
- Writer & Artist
Dan Koon has 20 years experience writing in technical subjects, marketing and advertising and has collaborated on several books. He has turned his energies to painting and writing about the art world.
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"I paint what I call 'fashion art,'" says artist Karen Brown, "because it's refreshing to see images of elegance and femininity in a world of casual conformity. I believe these are qualities that...
Read MoreArt Article, April 3, 2008
Collector Milton Luban Turns to Fine Art Registry. Oh sure, it starts innocently enough: a kid wants baseball cards of his heroes on the local team or maybe an autograph, whose occult powers will...
Read MoreArt Article, March 31, 2008
Most visitors to this website know Joan Altabe from her continuing series An Open Letter to Artists (from an Art Critic). Newspaper readers in Florida know her as the highly knowledgeable and...
Read MoreArt Article, February 1, 2008
Someday, not too long from now, judging by the way things are going, Georgia folk artist Steven Chandler will be able to rock back and forth contentedly on the porch of his art empire, wave an ar...
Read MoreArt Article, December 31, 2007
I know I am always in a state of learning. And thus always look forward to studying new aspects of art. I therefore am continuously excited at what I might discover tomorrow, in a month, or even...
Read MoreArt Article, November 6, 2007
As we mentioned in Part 2, someone around the time of the Renaissance had a novel idea, which, articulated, could be "Maybe God is not the measure of all things. Maybe man is." Whether or not...
Read MoreArt Article, August 31, 2007
...not Grandma Moses. It's more from this freer, more serendipitous branch of the self-taught tree that Guy Lindenmuth is emerging onto the scene. While most in the self-taught, Outsider, folk...
Read MoreArt Article, August 16, 2007
In our opening article, we established the understanding that some kind of exchange has to occur if one is going to continue to call oneself an artist and not, say, an art teacher or an art write...
Read MoreArt Article, August 13, 2007
"When I paint, the canvas directs the action. It's all about the release of energy. Shapes cling to the edge of reality, their meanings formed by a growing collective imagination. The transferenc...
Read MoreArt Article, July 9, 2007
Musicians are fond of saying that music is a universal language. And it is. But not more so than art. You can place the earliest cave paintings, a Greek marble, a Rembrandt self-portrait and one ...
Read MoreArt Article, June 26, 2007
This is more than a story about an artist and his art. You look at Christian Early's portraits of animals and each one seems to possess a distinct personality. While you're gazing at them...
Read MoreArt Article, June 4, 2007
When asked what she intends with her art, Chicago based artist Catherine Puma replies, "I love recreating beautiful landscapes of places I've traveled to before because I'm able to relive...
Read MoreArt Article, April 27, 2007
Well, for all its problems, America can still be a land of opportunity, if you ask painter Anna Kurowska. Growing up in the small city of Ozorkow in central Poland, Anna did not have much...
Read MoreArt Article, March 27, 2007
One could easily make an argument that the Impressionist movement in art would never have happened had it not been for the invention of the collapsible tin tube in the 1840s. Before then, artists...
Read MoreArt Article, March 5, 2007
There's no telling what will spark a person down a certain path in life. In the late '60s a young teacher walked into the classroom of a small community school in Newark, New Jersey. She opened...
Read MoreArt Article, January 2, 2007
"I have used oil, ink, acrylic, watercolor, all the usual media," she says. "Then I met pastel. I do not remember when exactly I discovered pastel as a serious method of dispensing color...
Read MoreArt Article, November 1, 2006
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