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Should an artist copy from photographs?

by David Clayton on May 11, 2012

Does the means invalidate the end? Shortly after moving the US I was contacted by someone I knew when I was studying if Florence. When I was in Florence Martinho Correia had been teaching the academic method at one of the ateliers in Florence. He contacted me because he had just converted to Catholicism and [...]

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Faces by Matthew James Collins

by David Clayton on May 5, 2011

Demonstrating the contrast been portraiture and the baroque style of sacred art. I have written in the past about the different approaches to portraiture and sacred art in the Western naturalistic form of the baroque (in the article: Is Some Modern Sacred Art too Naturalistic?) . I this I discussed the fact that many examples of [...]

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The Paintings of Henry Wingate

by David Clayton on May 9, 2010

Continuing in the tradition of the Boston School of portraitists, and the baroque. Catholic artist, Henry Wingate, is a fine painter whose style is consistent with the principles developed during the baroque period. I like his portraits especially and he is one of relatively few artists around today who is making a real contribution to [...]

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Is some sacred art too naturalistic?

by David Clayton on April 15, 2010

This article arose from a conversation with Shawn Tribe of the New Liturgical Movement website who mentioned to me that he felt that many of the best examples of sacred art in the naturalistic style that we are being painted today lack something when compared with the baroque masters of the past. He felt that [...]

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