Starting a project can feel exciting. My friend and I decided to make an American flag out of wood pallets last summer. We searched for ideas, found some tips and chose our design. It was our first time working with wood pallets, so we were a bit unsure about how it would turn out....
I will jump at any opportunity to allow my kids to express themselves through art. I also love thisStar Ice Cube Paintingactivity, because it fits right in with a stars and stripes flag theme! Another added bonus of this American flag pastel canvas is that little ones can work on improving...
The most remarkable technique used by Childe Hassam in this painting is the projection of flags onto a quarter of the painting’s surface from hidden anchor points outside the frame. In a way, the tall “hanging” format, which mimics the shape of a flag, reinforces the flags’ identity ...
if it’s my own body of work, I sketch in the form of painting. It’s a good exercise to jump right into painting and not rely on previous sketches. The best ideas come from that improvisation process, and I build more confidence as an artist when I know that ...
The Surrealist artists were very influential with their idea of unconscious 'automatic painting' which was taken up by Jackson Pollock and others. The exchange of ideas was helped in New York by a growing infrastructure of venues promoting modern art, including: the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA,...
flag, painting activists as poorly educated racists unworthy of attention. The event turns into something resembling a zoo rather than a political event. We feel by directing our efforts with a more laser-like focus we can better achieve our goals. Until the American Nazi Party can show large...
“functional” design for the industrial age would then give birth to aGesamtkultur,that is, a new universalculturein a totally reformed man-madeenvironment. These ideas motivated the “modern” movement in architecture that would soon culminate in the so-called International Style of modern ...
Thus, to a remarkable degree, Weston invented a powerful version of modern photography out of his own imagination andprodigiouswill. He was voraciously curious and was influenced by the ideas and passions of other artists as much as by their work. In 1922, during a visit toNew York, he met...
“It was a beautiful time, but that painting was painted,” he says, explaining why he left the company when he did. “For me, the magic lies in the creation – and I wanted to create. It was time to start a new canvas.”
I ran into Virginie Roux-Cassé‘s painting, and Virginie herself, quite by accident some years ago now. Her latest exhibition, called “Les Saintes”, she says, is inspired by an encounter with the Roma holy patron Sainte Sara la Noire, repudiated African Queen of King Herod and servant ...