Quote of the Week:

What do you think Miro' was trying to say with the following quote?   

"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music."

Joan Miro', 1893-1983, Spanish Surrealist

Invent a history with James Rosenquist

Happy Birthday, James Rosenquist! 

 (November 29, 1933)

- 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. 

Untitled, James Rosenquist, 1978

 

Idle Hands from Dana Harel

Idle Hands from Dana Harel 
Original Article published on Monday November 12, 2012 
http://www.juxtapoz.com 


Israeli-born and San Francisco-based illustrator Dana Harel's large scale graphite illustrations explore humans' places in the natural world. Using the repeated motifs of hands and wings, Harel's illustrations fuse the human body with plant and animal structures, provoking viewers to re-consider the human "hubris" as a dominant species.

Compare and Contrast the image above 

to MC Escher's Drawing of Hands Below:

Quote of the Week:

What do you think Schopenhauer was trying to say with the following quote?  

" We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages -- stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us." 

- Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German Philosopher
(click on the link above to find out more information on Arthur Schopenhauer)

Quote of the Week:

What do you think Picasso was trying to say with the following quote? 

 
"There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into  the sun."



  - Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish Cubist Painter
 (click on the link above to find out more information on Pablo Picasso)

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)

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

Quote of the Week:

"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it." 

 - Vincent Van Gogh,1853-1890,Dutch Artist

(click on the link above to find out more about Vincent Van Gogh)

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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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

Happy Birthday, Frederick Remington!

Quote of the Week:

"Talent! What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way." - Winslow Homer, 1836-1910, American Artist

Quote of the Week:

 " An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed."

 - John Constable, 1776-1837, English Painter

Dogs Play Poker

C.M. "Cash" Coolidge

Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (November 12, 1844 – January 24, 1934), was an American visual artist, best known for his paintings in the "dogs playing poker" genre. He was also known as Cash Coolidge (sometimes spelled Kash).
Born in Antwerp, New York to abolitionist Quaker farmers, Coolidge was known by the nickname "Rash" to friends and family. While he had no formal training as an artist, his natural aptitude for drawing led him to create cartoons for his local newspaper when in his twenties. He is credited with creating Comic Foregrounds, life-size cutouts into which one's head was placed so as to be photographed as an amusing character, common at midways and carnivals.

Cassius Marcellus Coolidge - "A Friend in Need" a.k.a. "Dogs Playing Poker" c.1910

 Important Works:                                                     

All were painted in the early 1900s

• A Bachelor's Dog
• A Bold Bluff
• A Friend in Need
• Pinched With Four Aces

 

Ballpoint Pen Drawing by Samuel Silva

original article published on Juxtapoz Magazine
(Thursday August 23, 2012)

Yes, that is right. This is a ballpoint pen drawing. Samuel Silva, the artist, used 8 different colors taking 30 hours to complete it. No other media. Simply 100 % ballpoint pen. Silva is Portugal-based attorney who does art as a "hobby." I don't think much more needs to be said. Just look at it.

http://vianaarts.deviantart.com/gallery/

 

Welcome Back!

Hope everyone enjoyed their summer as much as I did. 
Here are a few pictures of up-cycled accessories that I worked on while school was out.

DIY- Earrings

Recycle!

Fiesta Flambeau Parade!

Our hard work and dedication paid off! Special thanks to this years team. Go Dragons!

2012 FIESTA FLAMBEAU PARADE CONSTRUCTION - Part II

 

2012 FIESTA FLAMBEAU PARADE CONSTRUCTION

1st SASIC Rummage Sale!

Rummage Sale! 

04/16/2012

Raising Money for Prom and Contest

Happy Birthday, Max Ernst!

Max Ernst

Max Ernst was born on April 2, 1891 in Brühl, Germany. After serving in the German army during WWI, he became an artist in the Dada movement and was notorious for his art events (one staged in a public rest room) and his dreamlike collage work. In 1922 Ernst moved to Paris and helped found Surrealism. He was married to Peggy Guggenheim, and Dorothea Tanning. Ernst died in 1976.


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Vocabulary: 

• Autonomism - refers to a set of left-wing political and social movements and theories close to the socialist movement.

•  Dada Movement - or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922.^[1] The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Its purpose was to ridicule the meaninglessness of the modern world as its participants saw it. In addition to being anti-war, Dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchistic in nature.

• Decalocomania - from the French décalcomanie, is a decorative technique by which engravings and prints may be transferred to pottery or other materials. It was invented in England about 1750 and imported into the United States at least as early as 1865. Its invention has been attributed to Simon François Ravenet, an engraver from France who later moved to England and perfected the process he called "decalquer" (which means to copy by tracing). The first known use of the French term décalcomanie, in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Eleanor's Victory (1863), was soon followed by the English decalcomania in an 1865 trade show catalog (The Tenth Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association); it was popularized during the ceramic transfer craze of the mid-1870s. Today the shortened version is "Decal". The surrealist Oscar Domínguez (referring to his work as "decalcomania with no preconceived object") took up the technique in 1936, using gouache spread thinly on a sheet of paper or other surface (glass has been used), which is then pressed onto another surface such as a canvas. Black gouache was originally used in Dominguez's practice, though colours later made their appearance.
  

•  Surrealism - is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many Surrealist artists and writers^[who?] regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact. Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement.
  
  

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Leonardo Da Vinci

"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works.  You do more of what works.  If it works big, others quickly copy it."      

  - Leonardo DA Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian Painter/ Inventor

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. He was born to Piero da Vinci, a notary, and Caterina, a peasant woman.

Leonardo grew up in his father's home, and was exposed to Vinci's painting traditions. When he was 15 years old he became an apprentice at the renowned workshop of Andrea del Verrochio in Florence. Even as an apprentice Leonardo demonstrated incredible artistic talent.

Leonardo spent many of his young adult years working for Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later found work in Rome, Bologna and Venice. He spent his last years in France.

Because Leonardo's interests were so varied, he was easily distracted and had trouble completing projects. During the 17 years he spent working for the Duke of Milan (1482-1499) he completed only six works, including The Last Supper and The Virgin on the Rocks. Dozens of paintings and projects were never completed.

Da Vinci has come to be regarded as one of the greatest painters of all time, and quite possibily the most talented person that has ever lived. Helen Gardner remarked that "the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent... His mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote."

Throughout his life his interests led him to develop many talents and become many things including a mathematician, inventor, engineer, scientist, anatomist, painter, sculptor, botanist, architect, musician and writer. He has been described as a renaissance man "whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention."

Leonardo da Vinci died on May 2, 1519 in Amboise, Touraine which is today Indre-et-Loire, France. The Last Supper and Mona Lisa are among his greatest artistic acheivements. The Mona Lisa is among the most recognizable artworks in the world.

 

Anghiary

Grotesque

Hands

St. John the Baptist

Mona Lisa

Last Supper