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Art Center Information Presents Two Brothers Talking About Their Art

Here at Art Center Information, my artist brother, Lynn Burton, and I discuss some of our art. Richard: Lynn, you mentioned on our last conversation that you like to take photographs during old western movies while they are in motion.  … Continue reading →

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Gustave Courbet: An Uncompromising Artist

Not only was Gustave Courbet’s class-conscious art subject matter alien to critics, but his uncompromising and painting technique, evolved to treat rural themes, was mostly immortalizing the common, middle and laboring classes of his home town…people with whom he was … Continue reading →

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Paul Gauguin: A Taste for the Exotic and Primitive Cultures

His childhood in Peru and travels while in the Navy gave Paul Gauguin a taste for the exotic and primitive cultures. He lived mostly in the South Seas after visiting Martinique in 1890. He had a great may sources of … Continue reading →

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This Year Marks a Century Since the Death of Howard Pyle

“I was struck dumb with admiration”~Vincent van Gogh, speaking about Howard Pyle. The Delaware Art Museum Celebrates 100 years The Delaware Art Museum,in Wilmington, was founded in 1912 to preserve and exhibit the art of Howard Pyle following his untimely … Continue reading →

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For Your Art Information, We are Re-Posting One of My Art Works in Progress

Art Center Information is proud to present the following: This is a pencil drawing that I did of a photograph of my father taken back in 1949 filling up a gas tank of the automobile we nick-named the “Old Woodie”. … Continue reading →

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