Brand New!! Iv May 2014 - Who's Made A Mark?
Thursday, 26 September 2019
American Art,
art,
art competition,
Art Galleries and Museums,
art history,
art society,
artists,
botanical art,
exhibition,
Facebook,
painting,
portraiture,
watercolour,
who's made a mark this week?
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| Society of Botanical Artists Exhibition Invitation |
I'm dorsum "on the book" this calendar month - we're immediately at the editing / pattern / layout phase as well as refinement re images. For those involved I may hold out getting dorsum to you!
As earlier this post is a recap of:
- recent posts on this blog
- things I've seen as well as highlighted on my Facebook Page. Many thanks to all those who guide hold 'liked' my Facebook Page inwards the finally 2 weeks. It took me nearly 6 years to teach to 2,000 likes as well as nether 2 weeks to collect some other 200! :)
- other items I've seen as well as bookmarked to include inwards this post - as well as there's a heavy emphasis on fine art exhibitions this week.
Art blogs
Artists
Say 'Hello' to Andy Wood - the laid NEW President of the Royal Institute of Painters inwards Watercolour. Andy was previously the Secretary of the RI. He's i of a really few painters inwards watercolour to guide hold broken into as well as top away acclaimed inside the Chinese watercolour epitome community. Last twelvemonth Andy was one of the judges of the Shenzhen International Watercolor Biennial inwards 2013 (Facebook Page)
For those wondering whether a alter inwards President agency whatever alter to the range as well as trend of paintings favoured past times the RI, my gauge is Andy would say that's upward to the pick panel. However, below I've included my photograph of some of his paintings - every bit exhibited inwards the recent annual exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painters inwards Watercolour.
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| Watercolour Paintings past times Andy Wood PRI |
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| Joanna Trollope, Author (left) presenting Suzanne du Toit (right) with the BP Portrait Prize 2013 |
Art Competitions
Recent posts guide hold provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a couplet of prestigious exhibitions inwards the UK
- BP Portrait Award 2013, has written an article for the BBC on her Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka guide hold this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts guide hold provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a couplet of prestigious exhibitions inwards the UK
- Top 10 tips for beingness an artist.
It proved really pop when I posted it on Facebook so if yous missed it at that topographic point why non guide hold a look?
Botanical Art
- Following the RHS Botanical Art Show inwards the Lindley Hall, this my really pop annual post - Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka guide hold this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts guide hold provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a couplet of prestigious exhibitions inwards the UK
- Interviews with vi RHS Botanical Art Gold Medal Winners (2014)
- I desire to celebrate those who guide hold overcome a lack of confidence plenty to position their function frontwards for scrutiny as well as judgement. Particularly those who so teach a distinction inwards their Diploma - but let Jarnie Godwin (Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka guide hold this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts guide hold provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a couplet of prestigious exhibitions inwards the UK
- Enjoy What yous Do
- If yous always fancy a change, these are the workshops inwards botanical art at the New York Botanical Gardens.
Collage Art
- Anticipating that artists who guide hold visited the Matisse exhibition volition hold out stimulated to wield their scissors, tThe May Share Your Art project on The Guardian focuses on Collage Art. You tin consider the function beingness shared on A cutting above: portion your collages now - as well as I guide hold to say they are absolutely fascinating. Check out An Election Entertainment after Hogarth past times Emma Richardson
Drawing as well as sketching
- Shevaun Doherty (Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka guide hold this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts guide hold provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a couplet of prestigious exhibitions inwards the UK
- sketching natural history subjects inwards Museums Sketching
- I in i trial went to a lecture past times Gerald Scarfe at the cease of which he drew inwards pen as well as ink - it's quite scary! This calendar week he gave an interview to The Guardian
In general, Gerald draws on thick cartridge newspaper which is closed to 83cm x 60cm (34 x 24 inches), although some drawings are smaller. He mainly plant inwards pen as well as dark ink, adding H2O color later. - See to a greater extent than at: http://www.geraldscarfe.com/originals/#sthash.0jA8VzIr.dpuf
Landscapes
- I latterly came across the landscape paintings of Mary Bentz Gilkerson who is a Professor of Art at Columbia University. This is her website as well as this is her blog - as well as yous tin discovery her workshops here
- Wanderarti takes urban sketching to the adjacent grade - I think. It's a website which focuses on the fine art that people are making nearly places but has non express it to only sketching. It includes an interview with Laura Frankstone. (Laurelines)
Miniatures
- Congratulations to David Lawton (Facebook) has been told he's qualified for membership of the Hilliard Society based on the character of his function alone. David immediately needs to teach himself a website (hint!)
Portraiture
- A selfie ground of mind: How the British perfected the fine art of the self-portrait - is an article inwards the Independent which traces the involvement of British artists inwards the evolution of the self-portrait. Linked of course of written report to the publication of a book! (‘The Self-Portrait: a Cultural History’ past times James Hall, is published past times Thames & Hudson)
Street Art
- Jonathan Jones got sniffy with Street Art as well as Banksy recently. New Banksy? Whatever. Graffiti is only a tame in-joke for Guardian readers
All skillful fun. Sadly it has goose egg to exercise with art. Banksy is a cultural phenomenon but non an artistic one.
Art Business & Marketing
- Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka guide hold this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts guide hold provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a couplet of prestigious exhibitions inwards the UK
- Jerwood Drawing Prize 2014 - Call for Entries
- Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka guide hold this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts guide hold provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a couplet of prestigious exhibitions inwards the UK
Part of the Dominicus Times Watercolour Exhibition 2013 at the Mall Galleries
- The deadline for entries for SkyArts Portrait Artist of the Year 2014 has been EXTENDED! You immediately guide hold until 9am on Tuesday sixth May 2014 to teach your entry in. Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka guide hold this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts guide hold provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a couplet of prestigious exhibitions inwards the UK
- See my spider web log post for to a greater extent than details of what yous demand to exercise to submit an entry.
- Next calendar week I'll hold out writing nearly some other prestigious prize!
Art Exhibitions
All those planning to come upward to London as well as purpose a underground to consider an exhibition inwards the nigh hereafter demand to maintain an oculus on the Transport for London website as well as updates re. the planned industrial activeness during this adjacent calendar week (Tuesday, Midweek as well as Thursday). This is the OFFICIAL ADVICE FROM TFL
Major Art Galleries as well as Museums - London
- I was at the National Portrait Gallery on May Day forenoon for a spot of cake as well as a celebration. My post Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka guide hold this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts guide hold provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a couplet of prestigious exhibitions inwards the UK
- Van Dyck self portrait saved for the field past times most successful fundraising drive ever lists those fine art galleries around the Great Britain which volition hold out loaned the portrait over the adjacent 3 years.
- A novel exhibition has opened at the National Gallery - Building the Picture: Architecture inwards Italian Renaissance Painting (30 Apr – 21 September 2014). I flora this page - Building the Picture Online Publication - an interesting jumping off indicate for finding out to a greater extent than nearly buildings on paintings (eg How artists used architecture to pattern their compositions) as well as how to translate some of Italian Renaissance paintings
Other galleries inwards the UK
- "David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring" (8 May–12 July 2014) opens this calendar week at Annely Juda Fine Art - as well as I'm going to the preview on Tuesday (fingers crossed for a underground running that goes somewhere nigh the gallery!!) However the link inwards the exhibition championship takes yous to where yous tin immediately consider the artwork created from iPad drawings which volition hold out inwards the exhibition. However yous demand to top away to the gallery to consider the videos.
- The "From root to tip: Botanical fine art inwards Britain" exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum inwards Cambridge finishes xi May https://www.facebook.com/fitzwilliammuseum
Major Art Galleries as well as Museums - USA
- "Audubon's Birds, Audubon's Words" finishes at the Museum of Fine Arts inwards Boston on 11th May.
- John James Audubon: Life-Sized as well as Larger than Life is a totally fascinating (and highly recommended) xc infinitesimal video/lecture nearly Audubon every bit an artist, a plane lover (and majority murderer of birds) as well as an embodiment of a conservation displace - past times Ben Weiss, the curator of the exhibition as well as Chair, Prints, Drawings as well as Photographs. It volition also involvement those who desire to know how portfolios of prints used to hold out produced - as well as those who similar plane puns! I had no thought "double elephant" every bit a newspaper size was invented to depict the size of newspaper used to create the 3 pes high volumes of The Birds of America.
As writer as well as illustrator of The Birds of America, John James Audubon (1785–1851) traveled thousands of miles throughout the eastern the States as well as Canada to seek out as well as clitoris North American birds inwards their natural habitats. This monumental function past times the naturalist as well as painter includes to a greater extent than than 700 species as well as features to a greater extent than than 400 hand-colored prints, oft showing the birds at life size. Produced inwards England as well as issued inwards a express edition betwixt 1827 as well as 1838 (sold inwards installments past times subscription), only nearly 120 consummate copies be today.
- The National Gallery of Art in Washington has 2 exhibitions of note
- Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, as well as Prints from the Albertina March 24–June 9, 2013
- Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In May 4 – Nov 30, 2014 The exhibition is to celebrate a recent gift of Wyeth’s "Wind from the Sea" (1947)—one of the artist’s most of import paintings—the National Gallery of Art. It's non thus surprising that the exhibition focuses on Wyeth’s frequent purpose of the window every bit the dependent area of his art. It comprises some sixty watercolors, drawings, as well as tempera paintings completed after "Wind from the Sea". The curator suggests that this is Wyeth’s outset fully realized exploration of the theme.
Major Art Galleries as well as Museums - Europe
- You guide hold until 29th June to consider some neat masterpieces past times Albrecht Dürer at the Albertina inwards Vienna. The large surprise for me - every bit revealed past times this cinema - is how small-scale they are!
Art Societies - UK
- The Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (Facebook Page) opens on eighth May (PV on the 7th) at the Mall Galleries. Note that of their various events during the course of written report of the exhibition:
- Portrait Drawing from Life with Saied Dai is sold out
- There's a growing antechamber alongside portrait artists for the RP to re-create the Portrait Society of America as well as to position all their events into i large weekend as well as exercise a proper "magnet" trial that people volition go to as well as conform to remain over inwards London for. That way it's a lot easier to justify the go expenses as well as yous teach a amend render for whatever hotel costs incurred.
Catalogue for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2014
- Botanical Garden - the Annual Exhibition 2014 of the Society of Botanical Artists opens adjacent calendar week at Central Hall Westminster on Fri ninth May. The digital invite at the top of this post gives yous details of the venue as well as times as well as costless entry whatever 24-hour interval of the exhibition. The Private View is on the eighth as well as I'm really much looking frontwards to coming together upward with friends from all over the Great Britain as well as Ireland. (Please tin the TfL strike hold out resolved earlier the 8th!). Demonstrations include
- Friday, nine May Simon Williams SBA Gouache
- Saturday, 10 May Roger Reynolds SBA Watercolour pencils
- Sunday, xi May Amber Halsall SBA Acrylic inks/coloured pencils
- Monday, 12 May Billy Showell SBA Watercolour
- Tuesday, xiii May Gaynor Dickeson SBA Coloured pencils
- Wednesday, fourteen May Margaret Eggleton SBA Watercolour/gouache
- Thursday, xv May Jill Winch SBA Graphite/pen as well as wash
- Friday, xvi May Sue J Williams SBA Watercolour
- Saturday, 17 May Maureen Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan SBA Pastels
- Sunday, eighteen May Ann Swan SBA Coloured pencils
- The Annual Exhibition of the Hilliard Society (for miniature art) opens to the populace at the Town Hall, Wells, Somerset on 24th May as well as continues until 1st June.
- Buyers Private View is on May 23rd 3pm - 6pm (Please contact the office if yous would similar an invitation).
- You volition hold out able to consider an online exhibition of the artwork inwards the demonstrate from Sat 24th May. Artwork volition hold out available for buy via their website from June 3rd.
- The Annual Exhibition of the UK Coloured Pencil Society opened finally calendar week at the RBSA Gallery, four Brook Street, Birmingham, B3 1SA as well as continues until tenth May 2014. You tin see a slideshow of the artwork inwards the exhibition online.
- Cardigan Art Society 2014 Summer Show is at Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan, Ceredigion Sat 24 May - Sat 21 June. It opens with a reception on Fri 23 May from 6.30 - 8pm. Interestingly the Society has 2 Facebook Pages - i for mostly promoting the artwork, exhibitions as well as activities of the Society - which is populace as well as a "closed" Facebook Group for Members Only. Sounds really sensible to me.
Art Societies - Ireland
- The Irish Gaelic Society of Botanical Artists have an exhibition of Aibitir – The Irish Gaelic Alphabet inwards Botanical Art at the Visitor Centre, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland. It was opened past times Dr Shirley Sherwood as well as curated as well as organised past times Ireland’s finest living orchid creative someone Susan Sex.
Art Societies USA
- The American Society of Botanical Artists' Second New York Botanical Garden Triennial Exhibition is entitled Weird, Wild, as well as Wonderful as well as tin hold out seen until September 21, 2014. Feedback from Dr Sherwood is that it's wonderful - she bought 2 paintings! You tin consider photos from the exhibition on their Facebook Page
- You can see the the images of the portraits past times the 21 selected Finalists (from 1,698 plant entered) inwards the 16th annual The Art of the Portrait International Portrait Competition run past times the Portrait Society of America on their Facebook Page (link below). The i that won the William Draper Grand Prize: "A Father's Dreams as well as a Son's Love" is past times Bryce Billings, Utah
Portrait Society of America - Facebook Page
Art History
- You tin now visit the house, 87 Hackford Road inwards Brixton, which Van Gogh stayed in, when he lived inwards London for a year. The solid was latterly sold as well as purchased by a Chinese violinist as well as Van Gogh fanatic, who wants to restore the edifice as well as plough it into a residency for visiting Chinese artists. Read to a greater extent than nearly Van Gogh inwards London inwards my website - About Vincent Van Gogh – Famous Painter
- You tin download this vivid volume nearly the drawings of Vincent Van Gogh inwards pdf shape every bit portion of the Met's Publications. So many people came to consider the exhibition it's associated with - at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - that Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka guide hold this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts guide hold provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a couplet of prestigious exhibitions inwards the UK
Art Holidays / Workshops
- Anybody fancying a rather dissimilar variety of plein air painting should guide hold a expect at these pictures
Art Studios
Don't forget, there's a Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Award each twelvemonth for the best novel or most improved fine art studio!
- here's an update on the long-running saga of the botanical fine art studio shed - every bit the H2O goes in Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka guide hold this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts guide hold provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a couplet of prestigious exhibitions inwards the UK
Art Supplies
- Unison Colour - who create the best soft pastels (according to the polls I run) guide hold got themselves a laid novel website! It's got some neat pics of both pastels as well as Northumberland - dwelling of Unison Pastels http://unisoncolour.com/
Techies
Last weekend I wrote a couplet of posts which aroused a lot of interest. Hardly surprising given the way our Facebook feeds for the all the sites nosotros liked seemed to disappear overnight!
- Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka guide hold this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts guide hold provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a couplet of prestigious exhibitions inwards the UK
- This week's changes on Facebook - as well as what to exercise next. This explains what happened to Facebook Feeds as well as how your demeanour immediately needs to alter every bit a result!
- Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka guide hold this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts guide hold provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a couplet of prestigious exhibitions inwards the UK
- Interest Lists: How to laid certain Facebook does non filter the content yous desire to read This post covers
- links to my Interest Lists which are immediately beingness shared on my Facebook Page
- two guides I wrote a spell dorsum nearly why Interest Lists are a skillful thought as well as how to create them
- links to Facebook Help re Interest Lists
and finally......
Jonathan Jones continues his "top 10 series" (or is that his "how to teach lots of clicks on my blog" series?). He's immediately done the The top 10 artworks of the 20th century which include:
- 8 artworks from the outset 2 decades and
- just i from the instant one-half century!!!
Anyway, here's his listing as well as yous tin read the reasons why he chose them inwards his article.
- Paul Cézanne – Mont Sainte-Victoire (1902)
- Pablo Picasso – Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
- Henri Matisse – The Dance (1909-1910)
- Georges Braque – Man With a Guitar (1911-1912)
- Umberto Boccioni – Unique Forms of Continuity inwards Space (1913)
- Kazimir Malevich – Black Square (1915)
- Réne Magritte – The Treachery of Images (1928-29)
- Marcel Duchamp – Fountain (1917)
- Hannah Höch – Cut With the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany (1919-1920)
- Jackson Pollock – Lavender Mist (1950)
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