Laura Naughton

12/01/2025

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05/20/2023

06/14/2021

Has someone ever got “under your skin”? In art, sometimes that’s a good thing.

Here, Peter Paul Rubens evokes a technique known as écorché, literally meaning flayed in French.

This technique is used to build up a figure’s form, starting with the skeleton and muscles. It helps to reveal bodily proportions for a more realistic-looking figure in motion.

The practice started in the Italian Renaissance after Pope Boniface VIII permitted dissections for observation purposes. It has been favored by many artists, including Leonardo da Vinci—whose detailed studies of cadavers still captivate viewers today.

06/14/2021

"Authority is a big word that troubles most people, especially in the form of the authorities. Yet the roots of authority go back to words like author, and augment and authentic. There can be forms of genuine authority that develop from authoring things and from being truly creative. When faced with the inevitable inequities of life, there is such a thing as authentic authority that is rooted not in the common, often confused world, but in something deeper, that is both more creative and more genuine. When people draw from the root of their deeper self, they become authentic and able to act with true originality, for the deep self is secretly connected to the origins of life."
- Michael Meade

06/14/2021

Henri Rousseau - The Waterfall, 1910. Oil on canvas, 45 3/4 × 59 1+8 in. (116.2 × 150.2 cm). Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA