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American painter whose systemic yet figurative artworks defied categorisation

"Men Painting Women" opens at the Art League of Daytona Beach with works from Palm Coast artist Weldon Ryan and others.

The couple, top collectors of contemporary art, have used the home as a showcase for their thousand-plus piece collection.

Whether we like it or not, much of the significant art of our century has been “inaccessible” even to the well-rounded and well-educated because full access depends heavily on one’s possession of a complex cultural and physical reference system, which expands not only with art-historical information, but with perceptual ability, a philosophy of looking, and a broad vocabulary of signs. Some of the most radical works have been articulated in such a specialized language that, as is often the case with scientific experiment, breakthroughs are recognized only by the immediate professional co...

Francine Prose, author of the novel Hunters and Gatherers , delves into realism and the real act of painting time with figurative painter Catherine Murphy.