AMERICAN

ARTIST ®

a r t i s t d a i l y. c o m

FEBRUARY 2011

CONTENTS
4 Editor’s Note 20 Make Every Square Inch of
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Your Painting Come Alive
7 Letters BY AUSTIN R. WILLIAMS
Tomi Kobara energetically inter-
8 Art Mart prets the world with bold impasto
brushstrokes and a dynamic,
10 Quick Sketches unified palette.
A Note From the
Artists’ Fellowship... 28 Inside
Utrecht Competition BY MARGARET KRUG
Winners Announced. The work of artists who depict
interior spaces compels me to
look closely so that I can see and
understand my own world.

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Elizabeth (detail)
by Tomi Kobara, 1977,
oil, 48 x 36. Collection
the artist.

46 Zeuxis and the Art of the 66 Exhibitions

Everyday
BY MICHAEL GORMLEY
For a recent show, more than 30 still
life painters created a painting incor-
porating the same ordinary object.
The results are revealing, both about
the artists themselves and about
the value of pausing to examine the
common, uncelebrated things that
surround us.
Modern Life: Edward
Hopper and His Time...
Titian and the Golden
Age of Venetian Painting: 20
Masterpieces From the
National Galleries of Scot- 36
land...Alexis Rockman: A
Fable for Tomorrow.
72 Business of Art

58 Rackstraw Downes: Painting 76 Technical Q+A

the World As He Sees It
BY DAVID COHEN 78 Bulletin Board
British-born artist Rackstraw
Downes has taken the American 80 Coming in...
landscape as his subject for much
of his career. He was recently the
subject of several exhibitions that 46
showed him to be an artist who de-
picts the world as it appears before
him, not as it “ought” to be.