2019-05-01 The Artists Magazine

14 Artists Magazine May 2019

Prime THE ASK

If you could’ve witnessed

the creation of one

artwork, what would it be?

WE ASKED ...

“I would love to have stood

beside Vincent as he

paintedThe Starry Night.”

—CONNIE ROBBINS BRADY

“One of Matisse’s large-

scale collages would’ve

been fun to assist in.”

—BIANCA VAN DER HOEK

“Any ballerina painting by

Edgar Degas.”

—ERIC DUNCAN

“Picasso’sGuernica.He

must have raged and wept,

slashed in anger and

splashed in frustration,

experienced helplessness

and cried out in anguish.”

—WALTER BAKKER

“Untitled[1982] by Jean-

Michel Basquiat.”

—ERICK SÁNCHEZ GIL

“Girl With A Pearl Earring

[by Johannes Vermeer].”

—GAYLAND CRUTCHFIELD

“The Arnolfini Portrait[by

Jan van Eyck].”

—VICTORIA OHAN

“Michelangelo carving the

Pietá.”

—CHERYL KEGGAN

WE ASKED...

YOU ANSWERED

PONTORMO’S

THE VISITATION

: PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANTONIO QUATTRONE. J.M.W. TURNER’S

RAIN, STEAM AND SPEED. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY

: PHOTO BY PHOTO 12/UIG VIA GETTY IMAGES.

Rain, Steam, and Speed—The Great Western Railway

by J.M.W. Turner, (English, 1775–1851)

1844; oil on canvas, 26x33¼

“I’d have loved to

be present when

Pontormo drew and

painted The Visitation,

recently exhibited for

the fi rst time in the

U.S. at the Morgan

Library Museum.

It’s an extraordinary

painting to view

and copy.”

WENDY SHALEN

ARTIST AND

INSTRUCTOR,

THE ART STUDENTS

LEAGUE OF NEW YORK

The Visitation

by Jacopo Pontormo, (Italian, 1494–1557)

0il on wood, 79½ x61½

San Michele, Carmignano (Florence)

“J.M.W. Turner’s

Rain, Steam, and

Speed, in the

National Gallery,

London.”

CHERYL K. SNAY

CURATOR OF

EUROPEAN ART,

SNITE MUSEUM OF

ART, UNIVERSITY OF

NOTRE DAME