Be sure to sign up for the Art Center Information newsletter and enter the drawing to win a free coffee table art book>>>Upper right hand corner of page. The artist has always been a special breed of person in the … 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
Naive art is a comfort from chaos, a release if you wish, but who says a painting must be a mirror image of the disorder of our time or the disgruntlement of the artist? Must art be so subtle or … Continue reading
Caricature, Romanticism, Expressionism, Dada, and Social Realism are the labels scholars have pinned on the art of social comment. Yet the works that continue to interest us are those of individual artists who have pressed beyond the strictures of any … 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
I’ve always liked paintings that showed weather in them such as winter scenes with snow, or street scenes either in a rainstorm or just after the rain. I especially like artists depicting the reflections off a wet street from the … Continue reading
You ask what we’ve been doing at the Art Center Information blog sight all day. Drawing and attempting to paint a color sketch for my future art, “Old Woodie”. The man pumping the gas in the picture is supposed to … 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
