Friday, October 19, 2012

Quote of the Week:


"You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you can have, the better it is - unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far."                   - Alice Neel, 1900-1984, American Painter 
                                             (click on the link above to find out more information on Alice Neel)

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Invent a history with Childe Hassam

Happy Birthday, Childe Hassam! 
(October 17, 1859 – August 27, 1935)
 Look at the image below, then invent a history for it and type it as your comment.  Create a story of how you think the artist was feeling when it was painted, or write about the subject. 

Rainy Night, Childe Hassam, 1895



Friday, October 12, 2012

Quote of the Week:


"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it." 
(click on the link above to find out more about Vincent Van Gogh)



Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Paul Klee


"A line is a dot that went for a  walk."  


Paul Klee is a Swiss and German painter whose highly individual style is best known by an often childlike perspective and spidery hieroglyph-like symbols. Klee was heavily influenced by the expressionist, cubist and surrealist movements. Klee taught at the Bauhaus for ten years, where he became close with Wassily Kandinsky built a legacy teaching color mixing and theory.

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Friday, October 5, 2012

Quote of the Week:



"A Painter paints a picture with the same feeling as that with which a criminal commits a crime."
- Edgar Degas, 1834-1917, French Post-Impressionist