CAMERON BYRON ROBERTS

Art, Architecture, Mules, and Growing Up in the 1960s

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Ingre's La Grande Odalisque

June 01, 2025 by Cameron Roberts

Ingres is reputed to have said that he could paint a nude with only mud, provided he had a full palette for the background.

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Barnett Newman's Vir Heroicus Sublimus

May 24, 2025 by Cameron Roberts

When you are within a few feet of this painting, you can no longer see where it begins or ends, and are simply gazing into its limitlessness.

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May 24, 2025 /Cameron Roberts
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Rothko at the Vuitton Foundation

March 23, 2025 by Cameron Roberts

Mark Rothko was found dead on the floor of his studio on February 25, 1970. What ensued from his death was the largest lawsuit ever to take place in the art world.

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Louis Kahn: Building and Being

March 23, 2025 by Cameron Roberts

The Kimball Art Museum is now fifty years old, and looks no different than the day it was finished.

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Arcosanti: An Aquarian Utopia

March 23, 2025 by Cameron Roberts

Like so many ventures of the 1970's, Biosphere 2 for example, Arcosanti is sometimes seen as merely a commune with no scalable significance.  Yet it's hard to deny the charm of the place, and that of its inhabitants. 

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Taliesen West

March 23, 2025 by Cameron Roberts

Taliesen West is a geometric interpretation of nature, an expression of what Wright meant by an "organic” architecture.

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Marfa: The Work of Donald Judd

March 23, 2025 by Cameron Roberts

Texas is a set of extremes and contradictions, Marfa being one of them. When you arrive you are given no clues. Like SoHo in the 1970's, you just have to know where to go.

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The Tracings

March 18, 2025 by Cameron Roberts

One of the great mysteries of Greek architecture which defies rational explanation is something known as the Triglyph Dilemma.

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March 18, 2025 /Cameron Roberts