Jenny Krasner+Heather Sellers: Words + Scanner + Intent
Cookbooks in Bed with Lover Sleeping on the Side 9" X 6" Giclee Print, Edition of 25, $375 View series I've just started a 6-week Trends in Photography and Contemporary Art course at the School of Visual Arts, taught by New York art critic and consultant Brian Appel . The class has a number of working artists, blossoming artists, art appreciators, and "I can't draw for the life of me but I can just see it" arteests like me. Yup, I figured it was about time I expanded on my art knowledge from the "P" volume of the World Book Encyclopedia. I confess that one of the most popular, dare I say, cliche paintings of all time, Henri Rousseau's Sleeping Gypsy, still sends a little buzz down my prefrontal cortex : Like a lucid dream: Henri Rousseau's The Sleeping Gypsy It's those toes on the footprintless sand ... the 3-D stripes of the robe ... the beady eye of the lion ... the warped guitar strings ... brrrr! But I digr