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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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Paul Klee: An Astonishingly Prolific Art Technician

For your art information and insight, Art Center Information proudly gives you a moment to appreciate the artist, Paul Klee, undoubtedly one of painting’s most inventive technicians. He was a very prolific artist that had at any given time a … Continue reading →

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Art Center Information Presents the Impressionists

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 →

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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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Perspective-Nothing is as it Seems

“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 →

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El Greco: Famous Artist’s Techniques

Techniques of the famous artists in the world is as revealing as their biographies. Consider this, the reason artists painted landscapes for hundreds of years without moving toward impressionism lies not in the subject matter but in technique. Do you … Continue reading →

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Three Tips to Paint Sunlight

If you are painting your landscape from nature, you may find the hues changing as the sun crosses the sky. In many instances there is the need to finish the work in the studio. You should get in the habit … Continue reading →

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Working on the “Old Woodie”

I hope for the sake of art information you artists understand what I am doing here. I am working on the “Old Woodie. I hope as an artist you realize the importance of the different stages that an artist goes … Continue reading →

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Wassily Kandinsky – Painting Needs No Other Subject Matter Than Itself

For your art information, we present a few notes about Constructivism. The Constructivists declared art must be free of subject matter. Kazimer Malevich, with his “Black Square on a White Field” and his famous “White on White” painting probably sounded … Continue reading →

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