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I’ve always felt that acquiring these techniques comes best from the artist’s investigation of the materials while exploring their own psyche. Jackson Pollack, not the most articulate guy on the planet, but the guy who rocked the art world in probably the most dramatic fashion thus far, sai...
But Picasso was among the first artists to appreciate the vitality of the primitive African masks and idols that he saw in exhibitions in Paris before the First World War. Later, he experimented in recreating the artist’s world as Cezanne had analyzed it, "You must see in nature the ...
First hour is generally at my computer, processing images/responding to business matters/posting my artist Facebook blog. Then at my table creating my artwork for the rest of the day. I break for breakfast and lunch and otherwise work until 4-4:30pm, when my husband gets home. I am ...
Artist Josef Albers was just as much a scientist of color as Isaac Newton or Thomas Young. Less obviously, a sculptor like Rodin was arguably just as preoccupied with gravity (in his own way) as a scientist like Galileo or Newton.
Dear Artist, The business guru Peter Drucker admitted motivation was a sticky wicket. “We know nothing about it,” he said. “All we can do is write books about it.” Our ownResource of Art Quotationsholds a huge variety of angles on the subject. Picasso, for example, felt it oozed ...
3. What does a typical picture of this period like? The main aim of painters was to represent religious themes. What is the main aim of painters in the Middle Ages? A conventional artist of this period was not interested in showing nature and people as they really were. What wasn’t a...
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature. —Paul Cezanne 7 Be a role model not a critic. Don't tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do - show them. And when the...
And moreover this was something you could make a living doing. Not as easily as you could by writing software, of course, but I thought if you were really industrious and lived really cheaply, it had to be possible to make enough to survive. And as an artist you could be truly indepen...