BY TAYLOR HOBSON
David Klamen repaints a variety of masterpieces that spans centuries, from works by Old Masters like Francisco de Zurbarán to Impressionists and Modernists like Claude Monet and Clifford Styll. While Klamen may choose from a wide range, he appropriates upon each piece within a similar visual framework. The original piece is depicted at [...]

BY MEGHAN MCGAVIN
What does a reenactment or appropriation of an Old Master painting do to the original? Does it dilute it or give it an updated context? In some instances, certain themes have retained their relevance. An updated version of a classical nude or still-life would seem completely contemporary to [...]

BY TAYLOR HOBSON
In a post-modern age in which art of appropriation can seem bogged down by its own complacence in referencing the past, Jeff Wall’s scenes have the ability to make sometimes overt quotations from art history without sacrificing any sense of the artworks’ novelty or innovation.  Not all of his compositions directly reference the [...]

BY MEGHAN  MCGAVIN

Idris Khan (British, b. 1978), an artist working primarily in the photographic medium, introduces us to a new dimension of work in the practice of appropriation with his carefully superimposed photographs. While peeling back each gossamer layer of his  works, short stories about the original object, or artist, reveal themselves. Far from a [...]

OMNP has been bubbling recently over the paintings of Anne Connell. Our colleague Stephen Ongpin just turned us on to some of her recent Renaissance-inspired work, which will be exhibited at his London gallery this upcoming Monday, November 2nd through Saturday, November 21st.
Formalist concerns have been ever apparent in contemporary painting’s dialogue with Old Masters. The gravity of past artistic greatness weighs [...]

The opening of the Venice Biennale last month was highlighted by  a video installation commemorating one of the fabled city’s hometown heroes. “The Wedding at Cana” , the signature work of  Paolo Veronese, one of the three great painters from the Venetian Renaissance (along with Tintoretto and Titian)  was given in a modern-day tribute in [...]

A look at some of the old masters influenced art at the 2009 Armory Show in New York City.

Digital mockups of paintings from “Ideal (Dis)placements..,” at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis
Pairing Old Masters with contemporary works of art is a concept that has been a focus of OMNP’s. Can Old Masters and their influence be reevaluated against derivatives of them from today? Is this just an intellectual parlor show, [...]

Questions of intellectual novelty aside, putting Old Master works within a Contemporary context has proven to be FRESH this year, if only from the aesthetic standpoint of seeing them within a minimalist space. Kim Keever’s work has held this publication’s praise for more than a minute by now, and while OMNP was not fortunate enough to [...]

Curating trend a-lert. The American Folk Art Museum is the latest institution to exhibit the “mix and match” concept of juxtaposing artists from different eras. (When will collectors catch on to this?!) In what looks to be a beautiful selection of work, “The Seduction of Light..” pairs the haunting pallete of 19th century American folk [...]

OMNP strives to show the importance of Old Masters by underscoring their resonance today. In doing so, OMNP will regularly profile a Contemporary artist who has been directly influenced by the work of Old Masters. This week’s artist is Kim Keever, a New York based artist whose photographs draw from the sublime qualities of landscape [...]

OMNP strives to show the importance of Old Masters by underscoring their resonance today. In doing so, OMNP will regularly profile a Contemporary artist who has been directly influenced by the work of Old Masters. Today, OMNP explores the paintings of Kehinde Wiley, one of the more established young painters today, whose new series of [...]

OMNP strives to show the importance of Old Masters by underscoring their resonance today. In doing so, OMNP will regularly profile a Contemporary artist who has been directly influenced by the work of Old Masters. Today, OMNP explores the paintings of Bryan LeBoeuf, an up and coming painter from Houma, Louisiana.
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Francisco Goya: “Disasters of War” Series at
Peter Blum Gallery, 99 Wooster Street, NYC
Through August 1st
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