25Th March 2012 - Who's Made A Score This Week?

Spring (published 1570) past times Pieter van der Heyden afterward Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Engraving - Print
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

Spring began this week - together with the clocks went dorsum in conclusion nighttime inwards the UK.  We are at in ane trial officially enjoying British Summer Time!

This week's post has a flake of a "Spring" theme

The higher upwards epitome is inwards a number of collections. It's a impress of an engraving past times Pieter van der Heyden after a ikon of Spring past times Pieter Brueghal the Elder together with made presently afterward his death.

Over on the Guardian, Jonathan Jones has decided to exercise a novel serial of posts virtually My favourite saltation artworks.  To appointment he's had

• Spring begins amongst Botticelli - and Rites of spring: Sandro Botticelli's Primavera
• In total bloom: Jeff Koons's Puppy
• One for the road: Camille Pissarro's The Avenue, Sydenham
• Where there's a wall: Francesco del Cossa’s April

Plus The Guardian has some other novel inaugural - Share your fine art amongst us - together with has asked people to submit their artwork on the topic of Spring

This is a novel serial dedicated to your art. It was inspired past times the extraordinary reply nosotros got when we invited yous to percentage your picturescreated using mobile apps.

Here's business office of that reply - The fine art of the app: plant made on iPads together with iPhones - a slideshow of fine art sent into the Guardian past times people who've all been busy creating digital art

This is Share Your Art - Your Pictures thus far in relation to the Spring theme.  I'm inclined to side amongst ane mortal who commented that they didn't think some of them looked much similar Spring!  There's also a few "Hockney wannabes" inwards there.  The gallery uses LiveShare.

I'm also continuing the topic of seasonal landscapes on The Art of the Landscape (I was doing it earlier Jonathan!) together with accept kicked off a mix of Spring Landscapes together with landscapes associated amongst the calendar month of March.  There volition live a few to a greater extent than this week

• The Louvre, March Mist - Pissaro (Spring Landscape #1)
• Spring Landscape #2 - past times Berthe Morisot

I also did my first off "Spring" sketch lately - see The Thames at Kew - inwards March sunshine.

So - over to you.  Do yous sketch or pigment amongst a stance to making a tape of the Season or peradventure what the landscape looks similar this month?

The Thames at Kew - looking towards Richmond 12 together with fifteen March 2012
pen together with inck together with coloured pencils inwards Moleskine sketchbook, 11" x 16"
© Katherine Tyrrell - all rights reserved

Now for the repose of this week's post

Artists

• The trouble solid at 87 Hackford Road, Brixton that was Vincent Van Gogh's London dwelling trouble solid patch he worked for an fine art dealer in London - is upwards for auction - see Vincent van Gogh's London dwelling trouble solid upwards for auction.  The house, which has a bluish plaque, is on the marketplace for the first off fourth dimension inwards 65 years together with has an cry for cost of £450,000.  Watch this video to run into what it's similar inside - it evidently needs "some refurbishment"

“ ‘Enfant terrible’—I teach called that a lot, still, together with I’m 47,” Hirst complains.

• Damien Hirst's upcoming retrospective exhibition at the Tate seems to live triggering quite a few articles.  Here's a selection:
• The Telegraph writes about How Damien Hirst tried to transform the fine art market
• Damien Hirst repackages Warhol for our times together with sells himself by Blake Gopnik.
• The Economist: Damien Hirst retrospective - Is zip sacred? The Tate Modern postage stamp of approval

The exhibition consists of 73 plant made over a 22-year period, arranged chronologically to select the development of Mr Hirst’s ideas. The full general trajectory is from gritty to glitzy

• this article was prompted past times the Economist ane - Diana Armfield RA, RWS - an appreciation 
• Mathew D Inis (Underpainting) discusses Leighton together with his sketching together with plein air ikon - amongst oodles of images in Leighton together with the Venetian Method, Part IV.  His drawing of The Lemon Tree stopped my scrolling for a lingering look.

Art Blogs

Drawing together with Sketching

• I came across Ian Sidaway's fine art weblog for the first off fourth dimension today.  It's called Ian Sidaway Fine Line and is described as 'A visual weblog recording daily fine liner drawings'.  It's got some really graphic sketchbook drawings which reverberate his illustrator roots. They truly await to a greater extent than finished than sketchy to me.  I similar his trees a lot.
• The Guardian came upwards amongst How to pull a perfect David Cameron caricature



Culinary Colour Field past times Nicole Caulfield
24" x 30" Coloursofts on Fisher 400

Coloured Pencils together with Pastels

• Nicole Caulfield (Culinary Color Wheel.  If yous runway dorsum on her weblog yous tin run into how it was developed
Landscape


• Loriann Signori (neutrals together with simultaneous contrast
Art Business & Marketing
• Excellent advice on In Europe, Where Art Is Life, Ax Falls on Public Financing
• ArtInfo: The Price of Art Fairs: 4 Case Studies Illuminate the Cost of Doing Business inwards the New Art Economy

Art Competitions

• On Tuesday I wrote virtually the Finalists for The Archibald Prize 2012 + The Packing Room Prize  in Australia
• The 7th Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition opens to earth at its novel venue - the Mall Galleries - on 28 March 2012 together with continues until v April.  98 paintings accept been selected from over 1150 plant submitted

Art Exhibitions

This is what's known equally a comment inwards the interests of balance.  Jonathan Jones argued this calendar week that nosotros should Get upwards together with demand amend British art.  He says we're too tolerant of our artists – novelty together with immediacy are valued over originality together with profundity. Which agency bad art.  Discuss (and the reasons for reading these links are the comments equally much equally the article!)

I honestly believe yous tin teach to a greater extent than from visiting your favourite fine art gallery together with looking, in ane trial to a greater extent than together with again, for free, at art that interests you, than from a dozen hitting exhibitions.

UK Major Exhibitions

• An fantabulous review of the Lucian Freud Portraits exhibition past times Marion Boddy Evans
• I came across a weblog I've non read earlier this calendar week called The Wandering Eye - it contains audio reviews of exhibitions.  It's described as musings together with reviews from a Museologist inwards training.  Does she hateful trainee Curator? Her Twitter trouble organisation human relationship reveals her to be Emily Peirson-Webber

UK Major Art Societies & Art Competitions

The Threadneedle Space

• The Threadneedle Space opened at Mall Galleries last calendar week together with I went to run into it.  Well truly it's the East Gallery 'as was' only you'd never know it to await at its contemporary 'new look'.
• The Royal Watercolour Society's Spring Exhibition past times members of the RWS opened at the Bankside Gallery on Friday.  I attended the PV on Th nighttime together with a review volition live published this week.

Private View: RWS Spring Exhibition

Regional U.K. Exhibitions

• I was amazed to hear that there's an exhibition of operate by Robert Maplethorpe in Dunoon.  I never ever thought those words would ever live inwards the same judgement (and I know Dunoon!).  Anyway here's the Guardian article Robert Mapplethorpe demonstrate heads to remote Scottish town of Dunoon.  The exhibition is business office of the fourth Artist Rooms tour.

European Exhibitions

• Animal Beauty at the Grand Palais inwards Paris is, I think, an exhibition which volition generate a lot of trips to Paris

USA Exhibitions

• The Brooklyn Museum has an exhibition of operate past times Keith Haring,  I wouldn;t tell i similar his operate thus much equally notice it intriguing.
• This is Mathew D Ini's post about What's On View: March 2012 - equally he says most of the exhibitions are "mid-Atlantic"

Art Bloggers Exhibitions

• Robin Purcell (Paintings at the California Art Club 101st Gold Medal Exhibtion.  Robin volition live at the Artists Gala reciotion on 31st March.

Art Education

Tips and techniques

• Sue Favinger Smith (Easy Value References for your Palette
• Diane Mize discusses Visual Bridges in the pattern of your composition on her weblog Compose

Art History

• I can't retrieve at in ane trial where I saw this link - even thus it's a flake on an ancient ane (2007) to a weblog post which examines the ikon of the daughter amongst crimson pilus past times Degas - Edgar Degas together with the nude red-headed girl on Thinks Happen

Studio & Art Supplies

• Kit: I've e'er been intrigued past times the way that people care to modify bits of slice of furniture together with equipment into things which attention them out inwards their studio.  Here's the latest from Lori McNee (I think I demand a novel photographic television camera - what exercise yous think?
• Paint: The NEW PRODUCT: Caran d'Ache difficult dry out pastels together with pencils I've highlighted recent production reviews by German pastel creative mortal Astrid Volquardsen (Astrid Volquardsen pastellbilder 'Malerin des Lichts' ) 

Copyright

I had a whole bunch of posts for yous re Pinterest - together with and then they went together with announced a modify to the Terms of Services which is what a lot of us accept been hoping powerfulness happen.

So first off off my post virtually that - together with and then the repose of them!

• Pinterest revises TOS together with addresses copyright issues: a Primer - this is my really long together with detailed post virtually all the changes together with whether they become far plenty and/or what the implications powerfulness be

"What I run into Pinterest doing is employing yous (without pay, take heed you) to amass a giant library of master copy content for them"

• The quote re Pinterest comes from Scientific American Takedown: How Pinterest moved fast to take my pinned images (#2)' at in ane trial includes the Pinterest electronic mail address re copyright (which agency yous teach to maintain a re-create of what yous told them!)
• plus this is a really useful site for those interested inwards the debate virtually Pinterest & copyright infringement - Pinterest? No thanks, non Pinterested 

Web, Blogging together with the Internet

Blogging

• Have I ever banged on at length virtually how totally together with utterly frustrating it is to live unable to tell who is blogging together with what their cry is.  If non I should exercise it some more.  Blogs exercise non teach mentioned on this weblog because I can't tell who yous are!!!! Get yourself a pseudonym if yous desire to live obscure!  Everybody else become together with banking concern gibe your weblog at in ane trial together with brand certain your cry tin live establish somewhere.

Twitter

• I've had lists on twitter for ages - only it's alone lately that I'm start to role lists much to a greater extent than to maintain runway of dissimilar categories of people I follow.  It does truly teach inwards much easier!

Webware Widgets

• I am thus really lamentable that the PostRank extension is no longer amongst us afterward 1 April. It's such a really useful tool for scanning Google Reader together with I also similar the external perspective on which are the exceed posts.

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