Category Archives: Artist

Art Center Information Posts More of Lynn Burton’s Murals

I’ve mentioned in former posts that my brother, Lynn Burton, has been painting murals throughout Texas and Oklahoma for years. He’s become known for his mural’s as well as his fine art. I’m posting a few more that have never … Continue reading →

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Abstract Expressionism and Jackson Pollock

In the early 1950s, Jackson Pollock became the “darling” of the art scene in New York with his Abstract Expressionism paintings. Some called him ‘Jack the Dripper’ because of his laying canvases on the floor and dripping paint onto them … Continue reading →

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Thomas Hart Benton…Recorder of the American Scene

Thomas Hart Benton’s depiction of American life were both admired and reviled. He was an artist whose images express his deepest feelings about love, family, and religion. There were those that described him as a brilliant artist, while at the … Continue reading →

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Norman Rockwell…What Can You Say?

The young tewnty-one-year-old, Norman Percy Rockwell, art editor of a small nondescript boys’ magazine sat nervously in the office of Walter H. Dower, art editor of America’s dominant magazine at the time, The Saturday Evening Post. He’d come from New … Continue reading →

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The Challenge to You

This year break out of your cocoon. Fly like a creative butterfly. Finding your own way in art is more than deciding to paint realistically or abstractly. It is more than listening to your art instructor or another artist It … Continue reading →

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One of My Resolutions for the New Year

It is only natural that artists desire public acceptance of their work. Art is a natural learning and growing process and most artists are influenced by other artists. They tend to paint with the medium and whatever style is currently … Continue reading →

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Vincent Desiderio’s “Cockaigne”

This 13-by-9-foot oil on canvas painting by Vincent Desiderio, entitled Cockaigne, is a massive work that took years in the creating. This painting begs the question of whether painting is meant to have any memory. The composition for this art … Continue reading →

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Artist: Frederic Remington

When I was a teenager, I learned to appreciate the paintings and bronze sculptures of the artist, Frederic Remington. There are very few people before or since that have been able to depict Cowboys and Indians as well as Remington. … Continue reading →

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Pen and Ink Revisited

You may wonder when black drawing inks were invented. No one really knows for certain but experts generally agree it was more than four thousand years ago and may have been in both China and Egypt at around the same … Continue reading →

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Masterpiece 101: A Piece Of Paper, Some Ink, And A Pen

With a simple kit of supplies–a piece of paper, some ink, and a pen–artists have produced an enormous amount of work. Illustrations for books, magazines, and newspapers have been full of finely rendered ink drawings. This was especially true during … Continue reading →

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