Monthly Archives: October 2009

Magda Tondo (in progress) – NFS

Posted on October 9 2009 by Tim Stotz

by N. Michelle Tully
oil on wood, 12″ x 12″

“An undulating form, one that resembles a flame, animates the contours and lends them nobility, elegance and truth. This is what is called the sense of contour, and to attain it Correggio cannot be too much imitated…”

– Antoine Coypel, Discourse on the Aesthetics of the Painter (1720)…

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Magda Furiosa – NFS

Posted on October 5 2009 by Tim Stotz

by Timothy Stotz
charcol, chalk and Roché pastel
on blue paper 25″ x 19″

“For the greatest grace and charm that a figure may have is to seem to move, which painters call the ‘fury’ of the figure. And there is no form more fit to express this motion than that of the flame of fire.”…

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