The good news is that it is never too late to get started if you want to be an artist. When I say this, I’m thinking of Grandma Moses. What a story that is! She didn’t seriously get started with … Continue reading
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
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
The system of loosely dabbing and dashing paint employed by Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir to preserve the spontaneity of a late summer or early autumn moment at Argenteuil (a suburb of Paris on the bank of the Seine), or, … Continue reading
“Nothing much is really the way it seems. If you could travel faster than light, you might set out on a trip and arrive back before you leave.”~Einstein Einstein also said that there’s really no such thing in the universe … Continue reading
Part of the twentieth century rebellion against tradition was turning away from continuing to parody the master artists before them. An art statement emphatically made in 1919 by Marcel Duchamp when he presented his Mona Lisa with a moustache and … Continue reading
Well, I’ve been sketching, trying to come up with a likeness of my father back in 1950. I posted the rather disappointing likeness (left) on the blog the other day and mentioned I was going to try to get it … Continue reading
For your art information, we’ll center on Salvador Dali today. There were two major influences on the artist, Salvador Dali. One was Sigmund Freud, and the other was Surrealism. It was Freud’s ideas on the unconscious mind and dream interpretations … Continue reading
We’re proud to present information at the art center about the Ashcan School, contemptibly know as the Apostles of Ugliness. Having spurned academic painting and Impressionism as an art, Robert Henri wanted ‘paint to be as real as mud, as … Continue reading
Here is a drawing that I wouldn’t sell for a million dollars. Actually, it’s not mine to sell, it belongs to my wife of thirty-four years this July. However, it is very valuable to me because it was the icing … Continue reading
