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Perspective in Art is Important Most of the Time

If you see the up close posts and the height of the near by tree, house and barn in the painting, “The Winter Farm,” you realize perspective plays a huge part in an artist’s compositions, especially if the intent is … Continue reading →

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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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Artist, Lynn Burton, Picture of Study for His Famous Mural

Artist, Lynn Burton, has sent Art Center Information another painting. I recognize this because it is like his mural that he painted at five locations throughout Texas and Oklahoma for a restaurant chain. The idea was taken from one of … Continue reading →

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Van Gogh: The Artist in His Own Words

“What I want and aim at is to confoundedly difficult, and yet I do not think I aim too high. I want to do drawings which touch some people…” Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother, Theo, 1882. … 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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Artists Role in the World

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 →

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Naive Art~Eye of the Innocent

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 →

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Two Artists That Were Masters of Protest

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 →

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Art Center Information Presents a Day with Salvador Dali and the Surrealist’s

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 →

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