It is always a moving experience when I visit San Francesco della Vigna in the Castello section of Venice. I make a beehive for the...

About this time of year, we start to see lists: The best movies, the best novels and so on. I am going to add my own list: The Artists I admire. Let’s see if I can keep it up until the end of the year. No. 1 on the list is Francis Bacon. I am crazy about his work. He influenced me to do my first triptych and I am now working on my first pentaptych. No. 2 on list of Artists I Admire. A little girl in Italy sees a painting by Amedeo Modigliani and gets a glimpse of what art

A triptych is a set of three associated artworks intended to be appreciated together. I always thought that you would find triptychs in churches and museums but that modern artists had no use for them. Wrong. I recently started to read Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester and was surprised to find that Francis Bacon did many triptychs (28, in fact). Intrigued as I am about Francis Bacon, I decided to become more familiar with this art form. Triptych, 1976 Fran