4 May 2014 - Who's Made A Mark?
Monday, 16 December 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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I'm dorsum "on the book" this calendar month - we're directly at the editing / pattern / layout phase as well as refinement re images. For those involved I may live 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 receive got 'liked' my Facebook Page inward the lastly 2 weeks. It took me nearly 6 years to larn 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 inward 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 cook NEW President of the Royal Institute of Painters inward Watercolour. Andy was previously the Secretary of the RI. He's ane of a rattling few painters inward watercolour to receive got broken into as well as cash inward one's chips acclaimed inside the Chinese watercolour prototype community. Last yr Andy was one of the judges of the Shenzhen International Watercolor Biennial inward 2013 (Facebook Page)
For those wondering whether a alter inward President agency whatever alter to the range as well as trend of paintings favoured past times the RI, my approximate is Andy would say that's upwardly to the pick panel. However, below I've included my photograph of some of his paintings - every bit exhibited inward the recent annual exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painters inward 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 receive got provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a yoke of prestigious exhibitions inward the UK
- BP Portrait Award 2013, has written an article for the BBC on her Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka receive got this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts receive got provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a yoke of prestigious exhibitions inward the UK
- Top 10 tips for beingness an artist.
It proved rattling pop when I posted it on Facebook so if yous missed it in that location why non receive got a look?
Botanical Art
- Following the RHS Botanical Art Show inward the Lindley Hall, this my rattling pop annual post - Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka receive got this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts receive got provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a yoke of prestigious exhibitions inward the UK
- Interviews with half-dozen RHS Botanical Art Gold Medal Winners (2014)
- I desire to celebrate those who receive got overcome a lack of confidence plenty to set their go frontwards for scrutiny as well as judgement. Particularly those who so larn a distinction inward their Diploma - but let Jarnie Godwin (Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka receive got this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts receive got provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a yoke of prestigious exhibitions inward the UK
- Enjoy What yous Do
- If yous always fancy a change, these are the workshops inward botanical art at the New York Botanical Gardens.
Collage Art
- Anticipating that artists who receive got visited the Matisse exhibition volition live stimulated to wield their scissors, tThe May Share Your Art project on The Guardian focuses on Collage Art. You tin reckon the go beingness shared on A cutting above: portion your collages now - as well as I receive got 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 receive got this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts receive got provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a yoke of prestigious exhibitions inward the UK
- sketching natural history subjects inward Museums Sketching
- I in ane trial went to a lecture past times Gerald Scarfe at the halt of which he drew inward 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 unopen to 83cm x 60cm (34 x 24 inches), although some drawings are smaller. He mainly industrial plant inward 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 late 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 respect her workshops here
- Wanderarti takes urban sketching to the adjacent degree - I think. It's a website which focuses on the fine art that people are making virtually places but has non express it to merely 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 go alone. David directly needs to larn himself a website (hint!)
Portraiture
- A selfie dry ground of mind: How the British perfected the fine art of the self-portrait - is an article inward the Independent which traces the involvement of British artists inward the evolution of the self-portrait. Linked of course of didactics 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 merely a tame in-joke for Guardian readers
All proficient fun. Sadly it has zero 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 receive got this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts receive got provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a yoke of prestigious exhibitions inward the UK
- Jerwood Drawing Prize 2014 - Call for Entries
- Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka receive got this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts receive got provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a yoke of prestigious exhibitions inward 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 directly receive got until 9am on Tuesday sixth May 2014 to larn your entry in. Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka receive got this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts receive got provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a yoke of prestigious exhibitions inward the UK
- See my weblog post for to a greater extent than details of what yous demand to exercise to submit an entry.
- Next calendar week I'll live writing virtually some other prestigious prize!
Art Exhibitions
All those planning to come upwardly to London as well as role a underground to reckon an exhibition inward the nigh futurity demand to maintain an oculus on the Transport for London website as well as updates re. the planned industrial activity during this adjacent calendar week (Tuesday, Wed 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 morn for a spot of cake as well as a celebration. My post Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka receive got this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts receive got provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a yoke of prestigious exhibitions inward the UK
- Van Dyck self portrait saved for the land past times most successful fundraising motility ever lists those fine art galleries around the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland which volition live loaned the portrait over the adjacent iii years.
- A novel exhibition has opened at the National Gallery - Building the Picture: Architecture inward Italian Renaissance Painting (30 Apr – 21 September 2014). I constitute this page - Building the Picture Online Publication - an interesting jumping off betoken for finding out to a greater extent than virtually 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 inward 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 inward the exhibition championship takes yous to where yous tin directly reckon the artwork created from iPad drawings which volition live inward the exhibition. However yous demand to cash inward one's chips to the gallery to reckon the videos.
- The "From root to tip: Botanical fine art inward Britain" exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum inward Cambridge finishes eleven 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 inward Boston on 11th May.
- John James Audubon: Life-Sized as well as Larger than Life is a totally fascinating (and highly recommended) ninety infinitesimal video/lecture virtually Audubon every bit an artist, a plane lover (and majority murderer of birds) as well as an embodiment of a conservation motility - 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 live 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 make the 3 human foot 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 pull North American birds inward their natural habitats. This monumental go 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, oftentimes showing the birds at life size. Produced inward England as well as issued inward a express edition betwixt 1827 as well as 1838 (sold inward installments past times subscription), only virtually 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 role of the window every bit the dependent land of his art. It comprises some threescore watercolors, drawings, as well as tempera paintings completed after "Wind from the Sea". The curator suggests that this is Wyeth’s offset fully realized exploration of the theme.
Major Art Galleries as well as Museums - Europe
- You receive got until 29th June to reckon some bully masterpieces past times Albrecht Dürer at the Albertina inward Vienna. The large surprise for me - every bit revealed past times this cinema - is how minor 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 didactics of the exhibition:
- Portrait Drawing from Life with Saied Dai is sold out
- There's a growing antechamber with portrait artists for the RP to re-create the Portrait Society of America as well as to set all their events into ane large weekend as well as exercise a proper "magnet" trial that people volition go to as well as adjust to rest over inward London for. That way it's a lot easier to justify the go expenses as well as yous larn a improve 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 overstep of this post gives yous details of the venue as well as times as well as costless entry whatever twenty-four hours of the exhibition. The Private View is on the eighth as well as I'm rattling much looking frontwards to coming together upwardly with friends from all over the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland as well as Ireland. (Please tin the TfL strike live resolved earlier the 8th!). Demonstrations include
- Friday, ix May Simon Williams SBA Gouache
- Saturday, 10 May Roger Reynolds SBA Watercolour pencils
- Sunday, eleven May Amber Halsall SBA Acrylic inks/coloured pencils
- Monday, 12 May Billy Showell SBA Watercolour
- Tuesday, xiii May Gaynor Dickeson SBA Coloured pencils
- Wednesday, xiv May Margaret Eggleton SBA Watercolour/gouache
- Thursday, xv May Jill Winch SBA Graphite/pen as well as wash
- Friday, sixteen May Sue J Williams SBA Watercolour
- Saturday, 17 May Maureen Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan SBA Pastels
- Sunday, xviii May Ann Swan SBA Coloured pencils
- The Annual Exhibition of the Hilliard Society (for miniature art) opens to Blue Planet 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 live able to reckon an online exhibition of the artwork inward the demonstrate from Sabbatum 24th May. Artwork volition live available for buy via their website from June 3rd.
- The Annual Exhibition of the UK Coloured Pencil Society opened lastly calendar week at the RBSA Gallery, 4 Brook Street, Birmingham, B3 1SA as well as continues until tenth May 2014. You tin see a slideshow of the artwork inward the exhibition online.
- Cardigan Art Society 2014 Summer Show is at Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan, Ceredigion Sabbatum 24 May - Sabbatum 21 June. It opens with a reception on Fri 23 May from 6.30 - 8pm. Interestingly the Society has 2 Facebook Pages - ane for mostly promoting the artwork, exhibitions as well as activities of the Society - which is world as well as a "closed" Facebook Group for Members Only. Sounds rattling sensible to me.
Art Societies - Ireland
- The Irish Gaelic Society of Botanical Artists have an exhibition of Aibitir – The Irish Gaelic Alphabet inward 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 individual 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 live seen until September 21, 2014. Feedback from Dr Sherwood is that it's wonderful - she bought 2 paintings! You tin reckon 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 industrial plant entered) inward 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 ane 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 inward Brixton, which Van Gogh stayed in, when he lived inward London for a year. The solid was late 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 virtually Van Gogh inward London inward my website - About Vincent Van Gogh – Famous Painter
- You tin download this vivid volume virtually the drawings of Vincent Van Gogh inward pdf shape every bit component subdivision of the Met's Publications. So many people came to reckon the exhibition it's associated with - at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - that Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka receive got this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts receive got provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a yoke of prestigious exhibitions inward the UK
Art Holidays / Workshops
- Anybody fancying a rather dissimilar variety of plein air painting should receive got a hold off at these pictures
Art Studios
Don't forget, there's a Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Award each yr 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 receive got this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts receive got provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a yoke of prestigious exhibitions inward the UK
Art Supplies
- Unison Colour - who make the best soft pastels (according to the polls I run) receive got got themselves a cook novel website! It's got some bully pics of both pastels as well as Northumberland - domicile of Unison Pastels http://unisoncolour.com/
Techies
Last weekend I wrote a yoke 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 receive got this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts receive got provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a yoke of prestigious exhibitions inward 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 directly needs to alter every bit a result!
- Making a HUGE committment to my fine art …aka receive got this task and…
- Art Licensing Hoops & Pitfalls - An Interview with Attorney Jay Landrum by Christine Schrum on ArtBusinessNews
Art Competitions
Recent posts receive got provided an overview of the Call for Entries to a yoke of prestigious exhibitions inward the UK
- Interest Lists: How to cook certain Facebook does non filter the content yous desire to read This post covers
- links to my Interest Lists which are directly beingness shared on my Facebook Page
- two guides I wrote a piece dorsum virtually why Interest Lists are a proficient 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 larn lots of clicks on my blog" series?). He's directly done the The overstep 10 artworks of the 20th century which include:
- 8 artworks from the offset 2 decades and
- just ane from the minute one-half century!!!
Anyway, here's his listing as well as yous tin read the reasons why he chose them inward 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 inward 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 inward Deutschland (1919-1920)
- Jackson Pollock – Lavender Mist (1950)
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