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A new exhibit at the National WWII Museum highlights the work of Tom Lea, who drew and painted the conflict for LIFE Magazine

20 capolavori di Caravaggio in mostra a Milano: un'esposizione unica per capire come nascevano le opere del grande pittore

Everyone will love these Renoir art projects for kids that teach us about the famous Impressionist painter from France - Pierre-Auguste Renoir!

1. Alexander Calder was born in Philadelphia in 1898 to a family of artists. His mother was a painter, and his father, Alexander Stirling, and grandfather, Alexander Milne, were both well-established sculptors.

Here's my guide to the Caravaggio Trail in Rome. This guide covers the life of the groundbreaking Baroque artist. And it tells you where to find his art in Rome. There are 24 of Caravaggio's famous paintings in Rome. They're in Rome's best museums, churches, and secret palaces.

Mark Rothko was an Abstract Expressionist painter famous for his masterful use of color. Here are 10 facts about his life and work.

Read about the troubled life and mosaic-like art of Russia's symbolist painter Mikhail Vrubel.

Learn how to paint starry night! This is an easy version of the famous painting in the style of a paint night type of painting. For beginners and kids!

Item #6609 This oil painting known as The Swing was created by the French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard sometime during 1767 and 1768. A gentleman of the court reportedly requested the painter represent his mistress being pushed on a swing as he secretly admired her from below. While the figures in the work are not identifiable as portraits of specific individuals, their rich attire and leisurely activity underline their aristocratic status.Such playful and erotic scenes were popular among the elite during those time. Custom sizes are available upon request. Easy to install: no paste or adhesive required Easy to remove: can be peeled off the wall without damaging the surface Versatile: can be easily cut to size and fit around corners or obstacles Cost-effective: save on installation costs and reduce waste Can be applied on most flat surfaces. Will NOT work on heavily textured walls. Not for outdoor use. Printed in 24inch sections for easier applications. Low-maintenance: easy to clean with a damp cloth Wide range of styles and patterns to choose from Great for renters or for people who like to change their home decor frequently.

"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life of the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.” - Edward Hopper

A series of art-historic line drawings for your coloring page fun. You are free to save and print these for personal, educational and non-commercial purposes.

Auguste HERBIN est un peintre abstrait français né dans le Nord le 29 avril 1882, il est mort à Paris le 31 janvier 1960. Au milieu des années 50, il invente son alphabet plastique : une méthode de composition qui part d'un répertoire de 26 couleurs,...

A round up of over 15 great STEAM projects – where math concepts are used to make pieces of art!

"In the portrait of that house, the windows are eyes or pieces of the soul almost. To me, each window is a different part of Christina's life...there's an upstairs window that has a pink feeling. That's her bedroom. I wanted each one of these windows to tell part of the whole story-they were not just stuck in there by chance. Each has its specific role in helping to explain the overall personality of the portrait of the house and its occupants." ...there is a piece of glass that's dropped out of one of the windows, and I was fascinated by the clothes that Alvaro stuffed in a broken pane so the cold wind would't blow through." Alvaro's New England resourcefulness also reveals itself in the the rope and funnel contraption rigged up at the base of the drainpipe to carry water to the bucket outside the kitchen door. Wyeth has even recorded a symbol of his own involvement with the Olson house: Just above the kitchen roof are a few pieces of white siding patched in among the gray clapboards. According to Wyeth, "Those are out of my own house. Alvaro wanted me to repair it and I did" -Andrew Wyeth Andrew Wyeth [American Contemporary Realist Painter, 1917-2009] Second of three generations of Wyeth artists. The best known of the Wyeths, Andrew Wyeth was taught by his father, artist and illustrator N.C. Wyeth. Andrew Wyeth is father of Jamie Wyeth, third generation contemporary realist painter. Credit to the fascinating blog 'I Witness' for the primary image: mrebks.blogspot.com/search?q=WYETH Official Andrew Wyeth website: andrewwyeth.com/ Farnsworth Museum, Wyeth works: collection.farnsworthmuseum.org/objects?query=wyeth&f... Andrew Wyeth image permission requests, artist's estate: andrewwyeth.com/image-permission/ ___________ Light restoration by plumleaves

The more I look at Matisse's artwork, the more it really speaks to me. I love his vibrant colors and the way his artwork expresses such movement. Around this time last year, Chuck and I made Matisse Collages from construction paper. We had such fun making them together... that I thought we could take it to the next level... wall murals! Making Matisse Murals with Kids This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support! Yup. We made ourselves Matisse mural. The idea was inspired by this gorgeous kate zaremba wallpaper. (Love, love, loooove!) Here's how we did it! First, Chuck and I grabbed a bunch of paint chips and got cutting. (Two things I've learned recently... 1) Preschoolers LOVE scissors. So Chuck's totally on board anytime cutting is involved. 2) Paint chips are like construction paper... on steroids. They're seriously one of my favorite crafting materials. They come in fabulous, modern colors and they're free! Woot woot! That's why I used them to make a Christmas tree advent calendar and paint chip wall art.) Then, I taped a large piece of white craft paper onto the wall. Then we pulled out our trusty glue sticks, cutout shapes, and circle stickers and began making art! The circle stickers by far were his favorite to stick onto the wall. And we just kept going and going and going! I thought it would be fun to glue on super large googly eyes. While we got gluing, Chuck realized that he could also glue on glue sticks. While they didn't stay stuck for long, he enjoyed the diversion. And then we used washable markers to add finishing touches. (Side note: Thank goodness washable markers really are washable. I left him for just a moment and when I got back there was marker all over the wall too.) I loved how the results turned out, but the best part about this project for me was hearing Chuck say "Look mommy, I'm an artist." Yes you are, Chuck. Yes you are. If you're looking for more colorful artwork to make with the kids, check out my arts and craft page. I've also listed out several of our favorite activities below! fun with oil pastels melted crayon friendship rocks watercolor and crayon resist notebooks 2 ingredient homemade body paint spinning top marker art candy mosaic art Let's keep in Contact! Visit my Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter accounts! (Or subscribe to my email mailing list by filling out the pink bar at the top of your screen.) Happy making, friends!

When I bought my 14-in-1 painter's tool, I only knew what 6 or so of the tools were. After figuring doing some research, I thought I'd pass on what I found.

Crea retratos vectoriales de estilo pop geométrico denominado arte WPAP con CorelDRAW . Con ejemplos y tutorial en vídeo. Tutorial WPAP con CorelDRAW

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Kara Walker operates on the premise that when you make history truly visible, both your own and that of your people or nation, there exists a challenge to show all of it, the unholy mix, the conscious knowledge and the subconscious reaction, the traumatic history and the trauma it has created, the unprocessed and the unprocessable.

Andy Warhol coloring pagebased on my Famous Artist portrait posters.

Parrish’s popularity was a direct result of his meticulous interdisciplinary artistic process, which included photography and woodworking.

Anche tu sei innamorato delle bellissime opere di Caravaggio? Vorresti saperne di più riguardo alla sua vita e alle innovazioni che ha portato nel campo della pittura? Ti trovi nel posto giusto!

High ceilings are a beautiful feature until you need to paint them. Hiring a painter is expensive. Read this tutorial to learn to paint tall walls yourself!

... especially since being Catholic is so very unpopular right now, what with the same-sex "marriage" stuff going on in SCOTUS. Eh. I've never been that

Learn how to paint simple figures in watercolour that will bring your paintings to life with Terry Harrison

This is a perfect lesson to get you through the end-of-the-year or even a mid-year slump. 5th graders love the graffiti nature of Keith Haring.

By Jaleen Grove Cahén avoided rough work in order to preserve the spontaneity of the first attempt: "I do many sketches before starting a painting, but in my illustrations I rarely make such preliminary drawings. In fact, much to the dismay of art directors, my "roughs" are usually so sketchy that I can't make them out myself. What I do is to start my finished drawing with a hard pencil right on the board, then I ink in the final design and erase the pencil marks which made up the initial draft. Thus, by eliminating first roughs, I feel I am able to retain in the completed illustrations the full quality of the initial enthusiasm. As for media used, I mix my techniques as subject or purpose dictates…." It is interesting that of the very few sketches that are preserved, each shows a different style and medium. For “A Cage for the Birdman" Cahén coated his board with thick white paint, then drew over that with black ink. There is no white paint over the black... Maclean’s, 1954 ... to make white highlights Oscar literally carved away black ink in cross-contours to reveal the white beneath, shaping the forms as a sculptor would. "A Cage for the Birdman" also affords us an opportunity to examine Oscar Cahén’s formidable mastery of the art of spot colour printing. There are only four inks—cyan, magenta, yellow, and black—used to create secondary colours green, brown, purple, and orange. The fact that all four process colours were used indicates that Cahén could have submitted full colour art. Instead, he used flat spot colours to intentionally achieve a desired effect. The final illustration is not simply black and white art with some hues thrown in for fun—it is colour artwork, designed that way from the start and rendered using the ink and press as the “paint” and “brush.” Oscar Cahén developed his aesthetic repertoire through illustration in technical and iconographic ways, reflecting on the relationship between the verbal, the non-verbal, and the visual. He then switched hats and allowed that internalized knowledge to come out in a different way in abstract painting, as a member of the Toronto collective of abstract artists called Painters 11. Unlike for his illustrations, Cahén made rough drawings for his abstract paintings and reworked them over and over. Subjective Image Railroad Yard Expressing non-verbal feeling in the visual was always uppermost in Cahén’s intentions as an illustrator; abstraction simply stripped away the nameable, verbal layer to leave behind that lurking pure sense. Art theorist Meyer Schapiro has said that the New York abstract expressionists didn’t care about communicating with an audience. As an expert in visual communication, Cahén differed from them in that he knew quite well that even unfamiliar symbols were not devoid of meaning, and he asserted that his paintings were “a search for faith, and an escape from loneliness through communication.” New Liberty, 1949 We don’t know where this image appeared. If you do, contact The Cahén Archives. From oral histories and a few speeches that were luckily recorded, we know that Cahén had more influence on his peers in the graphic arts than almost any other Canadian illustrator up to at least 1960. In art director Stan Furnival’s estimation: "There isn’t any doubt that he was the greatest single force in Canadian illustration since Jefferys. He revitalized the whole business of illustration in Canada and encouraged a lot of good people to stay here and work here. He brought an academic art training to his illustrations—which, combined with a sense of freedom and vitality, radically changed a tight slick Americanized attitude almost overnight." We don’t know where this image appeared. If you do, contact The Cahén Archives. Original art for a Maclean’s cover Tom Hodgson, a Painters 11 member and friend of Oscar’s, wrote: "Oscar Cahén was the major impact in two areas, advertising and painting... Nothing even close to his impact has happened since... for many people, Oscar was their beginning." * The first exhibition of Oscar Cahén’s illustration since his lifetime will be shown in New York at Illustration House in October 2011 (opening night Oct. 1). With Roger Reed, I have written a full colour catalogue with an essay and over 60 images. In this series of posts about Cahén, I will introduce him and feature some artwork that will not appear in the show, catalogue, or websites. The tearsheets and originals here are from Oscar Cahén’s estate, courtesy of his son Michael Cahén at The Cahén Archives ~ Jaleen Grove