An Art Critic Who Can Actually Create Art
February 9th, 2008 by FineArtRegistry
Joan Altabe, An Art Critic Who Can Actually Create Art
Read about that rarest of denizens of the art world, an art critic who also happens to be an accomplished artist in her own right. Meet Joan Altabe, the artist. This is the same Joan Altabe, award winning art and architecture critic, who for years has entertained and outraged the art community around Florida’s west coast with her acerbic, opinionated reviews of the local scene. Find out about Joan’s other side, the talented artist. You’ll learn about the lasting influences on her work from mentoring by one of the giants of 20th Century American painting, Robert Motherwell. You’ll also see how her early love of cartoons continues to impact her work today.
Most art critics enter the field after failure as novice artists or a long study of art history. Joan knows art history backwards and forwards, but she can do more than talk about art, she can produce it. And this makes her a rare person indeed. Did we mention that Joan is also a great-grandmother and that a retrospective of her decades long career from the business side of the easel is occurring early in 2008? Or that a follow up to her 2004 book Art Behind the Scenes: One Hundred Masters In and Out of Their Studios, is coming mid-2008, aptly titled Sculpture Behind the Scenes? Get the whole story about a woman who is, frankly, amazing at www.fineartregistry.com.