Two painters that Isabel mentioned in my final tutorial. I am familiar and fond of them. I made copies, with permission of course while studying for my Diploma in Portraiture. These paintings are important to me as they both show daily life, which is what I wanted to paint, although possibly only moments. All these…
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Week 14: Mingei Movement. Kitchen sink art. Value the everyday and the ordinary. Saga Ware.
What is arts, is it produced only by artists, or is it something that people have routinely created throughout humanity’s existence? This is a question central to the Mingei Movement in the early 20th century. Mingei theory was defined by Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961). They promoted works of the ordinary craftsmen that spoke to the spiritual…
Week 14:Ode on a Grecian Urn
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn Wonder what Keats would have said to a Korean Moon Jar? By JOHN KEATS Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In…
Week 14: Ink & Die.
I remember reading about Jane Austin when looking for a day out in Sussex. I then read an article that said she may well have died from poisoning. The theory was that she made her own ink and it could have been the culprit. No one really knows. https://www.jane-austens-house-museum.org.uk/collection The old link to this page…
Week 14:Why does a place resonate “They blister up out of space time”.
Thank you Alan Moore head. Alan Moore, why did I not make the connection between these two earlier? I first discovered Alan Moore while endeavouring to engage my children with stories, pictures and writing. Anything to get the homework done. A friend gave me a tip, too pointed for my tender children at that time…
Week 14: Notes. Fluxus & The Gutai Art movement – A Link.
Jackson polark. By BENJAMIN GENOCCHIOAUG. 21, 2009 The Gutai group of postwar Japanese conceptual artists not only made radical abstract paintings with their hands and feet; they also sought to network with similar-minded artists in other parts of the world. One of their efforts to forge these connections is the basis for a curious little…
Week 14: GHR & why do we paint?
Artist state a lot of things Gerhard Richter’s statements are about not knowing things. Gerhard Richter is wary of all ideologies and of all exclusive claims on the truth. Having grown up under two totalitarian regimes, first in Nazi Germany and secondly in communist East Germany, he has every cause to be mistrustful of people…
Week 14: Vija Celmins & why do we paint?
Artists’ statements research. This was a new take for me. No story. Interesting. Although I can see a story. https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/vija-celmins Transcript: Vija Celmins: I don’t think there was ever a point where I said, “I’m gonna be, you know, an artist.” No. It seeped in. I was looking for something. I went to two paintings…
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