Art & Antiques

Contemporary Classicist

ainter David Ligare has explored the classical past as a means to ruminate on our present condition in a career stretching over four decades. The self-described Post Modern Neo-Classicist, has long refused the typical conventions of the contemporary art world. Instead, he argues that

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