Self-portrait ideas around the topic "Identity" or "Personality" but I could also work for general descriptive adjectives lesson as well.

Specialist Sarah Reynolds illuminates the lives and careers of some of the artists featuring in Pre-Raphaelite Sisters at the National Portrait Gallery in London

An introduction to some leading members of the Arts & Crafts movement in England and the United States: Wm Morris, John Ruskin, Gustav Stickley, Elbert Hubbard, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and others.

(Part II) Little Haymakers Children And Roses Apple Blossom Brown Eyes Head Of A Young Girl (Rose Grimsdale) Noon In The Hayfield Farmer’s Boy Summer In The Fields Mervyn Roberts A Young Girl…

Unlike the majority of the Camden Town Group [Group of British Post-Impressionist artists active 1911-1913] - Walter Richard Sickert was recognised during his own lifetime as an important artist, and in the years since his death has increasingly gained a reputation as one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century British art.

I've noted on this blog that many of today's illustrators seem to devalue design and composition that have been so important to previous generations of artists. At some point, awkwardness and ungainliness came into style, as audiences became suspicious of beauty and skill. I'm a big fan of awkward and ungainly art when it is done well, but too often this style is an excuse for laziness and lack of talent. We let ourselves off the hook too easily by underestimating the continuing importance of design and composition. One of the best ways to remind ourselves of its value is to take a look-- close up-- at the work of illustrator Mark English. When was the last time you saw a composition this powerful in contemporary American illustration? English has simplified these forms to their basics. Don't go looking for fingernails or individual eyelashes in this painting. But at the same time, his little touches of control make clear that English understood exactly where those fingernails and eyelashes would have gone. They were removed out of strength, not out of weakness. English was struggling with the exact same design challenges as internationally renowned fine artists such as Robert Motherwell and Clyfford Still. In my judgment, he usually did a better job. We can appreciate the strength of the first composition from a mile away. But let's look at another picture up close, to see the subtler elements of design at play. Here is an illustration from 1969 about the participants in a funeral: To understand the nature of English's accomplishment, look at some of his details: Even the most abstract quadrants of the painting are impressive close up. Looking at Mark English's work up close makes me yearn for what we've lost in contemporary illustration.

CRW Nevinson, ‘Returning to the Trenches’, 1914 The art and poetry that emerged from the First World War had no precedent, and both exercise a persistent hold over the public imaginatio…

This is a text on the graffitist Banksy.It is followed by some comprehension exercises: , multiple choice questions, questions about the text, and picture anaysis. I have also included 2 ariticles as extra reading with no questions. Hope you find it useful. - ESL worksheets

petitpoulailler: “ f-featherbrain: 1911 Edward Detmold (English illustrator, 1883-1957) ~ The Fruits of the Earth ”

Renowned abstract artist known for vibrant use of colour was nominated for Turner prize

English artist Ed Fairburn (previously) uses vintage road maps and star charts as canvases for drawn portraits. Cross-hatched patterns and shaded regions inside roads, borders, and rivers assimilate into the contours of faces as if the images had always been secretly hidden in the map’s topography. “In his hands, both built infrastructure and natural phenomena echo the organic human form,” shares Mike Wright Gallery. “National highway systems become capillaries, and the tangle of Paris’ alleyways become the wrinkles that give the face history and individuality.” Fairburn opens a new show of work alongside artist John Wentz today at Mike Wright in Denver. More

Madge Gill in a dress of her own creation "Mediumistic Art." It's something we'd never heard of, until we uncovered the mysterious world of Mrs. Madge Gill. One of history's most important outsider artists, Madge tended to her garden, her husband, and her children in what appeared to be the quiet

"Mieux vaut un peu de tout que beaucoup de rien", telle est la ligne éditoriale de ce blog éclectique dont les articles (tous originaux et inédits) s'adressent à un large public de curieux et d'amateurs de frivolités parfois irrévérencieuses...

William Holman Hunt 1827-1910 Engeland

Vasili Vladimirovich Pukirev (Russian (1832, Luzhniki, Tula Governorate 1 June 1890, Moscow) was a Russian genre painter in the Realistic style. He was born to a peasant family and was originally apprenticed to an icon painter in Mogilev. By sheer luck, he was able t

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From Beowulf to Wikipedia, here’s how English grew, spread, and changed.

WASHINGTON, DC — Tucked into a far corner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, an exhibit showcases the extensive career of artist Romaine Brooks, a turn-of-the-20th-century icon who’s since been largely forgotten by the mainstream.

目前正在 National Portrait Gallery 展出的是 Laura Knight (1877-1970) 的畫作。在此之前對這位畫家並不熟悉，但她受印象派影響的畫風，細膩而溫潤的筆觸，

Hannah Gluckstein, aka Gluck, born to a wealthy British family, became an artist with a string of high-profile lovers – and created emotive, humanistic paintings

Reposted from our social media. We look at and discuss the illustration Gallera or Cock-Pit (1859) from Sir John Bowring and the three men in Barong Tagalog in this cockfighting arena

Many of you probably know of Ian and Melissa from Apex High School. They have developed a list of Artistic Behaviors for the high school level. I have been following along and seeing how they teach their students. Seeing their list gave me the idea to create posters that shows kids what artists do and what exactly is an artist. I decided to simplify the behaviors for elementary school students and start from the basics. Start from the ground and … Read more... →

English artist Ed Fairburn (previously) uses vintage road maps and star charts as canvases for drawn portraits. Cross-hatched patterns and shaded regions inside roads, borders, and rivers assimilate into the contours of faces as if the images had always been secretly hidden in the map’s topography. “In his hands, both built infrastructure and natural phenomena echo the organic human form,” shares Mike Wright Gallery. “National highway systems become capillaries, and the tangle of Paris’ alleyways become the wrinkles that give the face history and individuality.” Fairburn opens a new show of work alongside artist John Wentz today at Mike Wright in Denver. More

Walter Langley (8 June 1852 - March 21, 1922), English painter. 작품명은 파일명을 그대로 옮긴 것으로 실제 작품명과 다를 수 있습니다.

Evelyn Dunbar was the only woman to be salaried as an Official British War Artist during World War II, painting and sketching images of the home front, particularly the Women's Land Army where civilians were employed in agriculture to fill in for absent soldiers.