Earth, Air, and Water: Contemporary Landscape Painting By Rick Bennett Consider these two quotations about the place of landscape painting in the history of Western art: “All Art is to some degree symbolic and recognition depends on certain long accepted formulae.  The symbols by which early medieval art acknowledged the existence of natural objects bore […]

Review of Real, Realer, Realist exhibition: Rick Bennett From the Renaissance through the neoclassical period, figure painting based on close observation and skilled execution was the most prestigious form of artistic expression.  Though this status was considerably diminished during the Romantic, Modern, and Post-Modern periods, it is clear today that realistic figure painting has made […]