Review: Make Yourself at Home

admin · 02-13-2013, 12:30 AM

D. Eric Bookhardt on Jim Richard's paintings at the New Orleans Museum of Art by D. Eric Bookhardt Art that refers to earlier art is nothing new ? artists have always been influenced by art history ? but longtime University of New Orleans art professor Jim Richard has taken a road less traveled, focusing on the sometimes uneasy relationship between art and interior decor. Devoid of human subjects, Richard's wry paintings of domestic living spaces tell us a lot about their owners' aesthetics and the times that shaped them, in much the way the ruins of Pompeii reveal how its inhabitants lived their lives.? [ Read more ]

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admin Site Admin Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Orleans Posts: 11,971 Blog Entries: 2	Review: Make Yourself at Home D. Eric Bookhardt on Jim Richard's paintings at the New Orleans Museum of Art by D. Eric Bookhardt Art that refers to earlier art is nothing new ? artists have always been influenced by art history ? but longtime University of New Orleans art professor Jim Richard has taken a road less traveled, focusing on the sometimes uneasy relationship between art and interior decor. Devoid of human subjects, Richard's wry paintings of domestic living spaces tell us a lot about their owners' aesthetics and the times that shaped them, in much the way the ruins of Pompeii reveal how its inhabitants lived their lives.? [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]