Often overshadowed by his peer and fellow countryman Picasso; Miró is undoubtedly one of the more influential artists of the 20th century. His adaptability to work in many mediums and his unique style place him at the vanguard of the modern art movement…
Joan Miró – Video Showing His Paintings
February 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Picasso is not the only world-famous artist that Spain produced. Joan Miró (1893-1983) was another Spanish artist of world influencing impact. Like Picasso, Miró was apainter, sculptor, and ceramist. He was born in Barcelona. Miró’s surrealistiic art work has been interpreted as a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a [...]
Art’s Impact on Society
February 11, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Art is an extremely private experience, yet, it is meant to be shared with the public. Society, as a whole, examines the art produced and has the right to approve, disapprove, acknowledge, ignore, praise and abuse it. The public or society has not remained constant over the years. In the time of the Renaissance, for example, only a select few were “society.” They commissioned art, were patrons of the arts and their artists. Today, almost anyone can share in the experience of art.
Quick Tips On How to Draw a Realistic Face
February 10, 2008 By Leave a Comment
There are many artists who struggle with drawing a face and having it actually look like the person you are drawing. These tips should help you to achieve a more realistic outcome and have your drawings come to life. The first tip is probably the most important. When you are drawing, draw from a good [...]
Marcel Duchamp’s Objets Trouves – Are They Art?
February 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Marcel Duchamp shocked the art world and, forever after, the thought processes and anger centers of most people who have come across his work. His best known painting, done before he turned to physical objects, is probably ‘Nude Descending a Staircase’. As controversial as that was, described by one critic as “an explosion in a [...]
Starting Your Art Collection, Professionally
February 5, 2008 By Leave a Comment
This is one of many articles on this website on how to start an art collection. The author Corinne Cain gives a professional perspective, whereas some other articles on this topic have a more ‘personal account’- flavor. Starting an Art Collection “Identify what kind of art you like. The following techniques can help you determine [...]
Roy Lichtenstein
February 4, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Introduction Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) was an American artist born in New York City. He epitomized pop art, and brought popular culture into fine art. Personally, he described his pop art as industrial painting. Pop Art started in the ’50s and referred to the interest of a number of artists in the images of mass media, [...]
Cutting-Edge Art — On Glass Art & Dale Chihuly
February 2, 2008 By 1 Comment
By Bronwen Roberts Art glass usually refers to the modern art glass movement in which individual artists work alone or with colleagues, creating works from molten glass in relatively small furnaces of a few hundred pounds of glass. Dale Chihuly It began in the early 1960s and showed an incremental growth through the end of [...]
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