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Lisel Mueller: Monet Refuses the Operation

I tell you it has taken me all my life
to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels,
to soften and blur and finally banish
the edges you regret I don’t see

March 21, 2026 · 25 Comments

Richard Hoffman: Nestling

One day an old painter, impatient with his failures, took a scissors to the paintings he didn’t like, cutting them into strips and putting them out with the trash.

March 12, 2025 · 19 Comments

Barbara Crooker: Late Painters | Matisse

When his hands could no longer hold a brush,
Matisse turned to paper and scissors, “painting”
with cold metal carving heavy gouache
shearing shallow reliefs.

January 8, 2025 · 19 Comments

Michael Simms: Portrait of Unknown Couple

He sketched in charcoal
the arch of a shoulder
the movement of a hand
the woman’s head
turned and tilted slightly
toward the man

September 24, 2022 · 10 Comments

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