Meeting Benches World art in all forms
DAVID HOCKNEY, ENGLISH PAINTER – Synesthetic colours in response to musical impulses
THE PAINTER THAT ENCOURAGED THE CAREERS OF EXPERIMENTAL ARTISTS – William Rothensteing: when art training should encourage flexibility
WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN 1/3 – He was an English painter, but also printmaker, lecturer, and writer on art. His father was emigrated from Germany in 1859, to work in Bradford textile industry. His style and subject varies, through certain themes reappear. He took a keen interest in the work of young artists (and this included Augustus John).                        WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN 2/3 …
Read More »WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN (1872/1945), ENGLISH PAINTER – Paint with fears, about loss of facility in draughtsmanship
WHERE YOU CAN PERCEIVE COLORED STEPS, INTO A WORLD OF PASSION AND BEAUTY – The wonderful world of Stephanie Clair
STEPHANIE CLAIR 1/3 – Yes, it is like to see through a new set of lenses. Raised in upstate NY, after high school she moved to Virginia where she got a BFA in painting/design at Old Dominion University. A Modern Day Romantic Artist? Maybe, but when you see her paintings, you can perceive her colored steps into a world of …
Read More »STEPHANIE CLAIR, AMERICAN PAINTER – Let the world become light
THE CLASSICALLY-EDUCATED HUMANIST SCHOLAR, NAMED PETER PAUL – Rubens, the man able to be painter, art collector and diplomat
Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man …
Read More »PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577/1640), DUTCH PAINTER – The prince of painters and the painter of princes
ALSO HIS DINOSAURS WERE SOMETHING RATHER SPECIAL – Rob Hefferan and the Pre-Raphaelitism as photos painting
ROB HEFFERAN 1/3 – He was born in the north of England, where began drawing and painting as a small child. During family holidays, he would paint en plein. His art teacher who recognized that his childish drawings of dinosaurs were something rather special. Throughout high school and college, he entered and won many art competitions. This painter, is influenced …
Read More »ROB HEFFERAN, ENGLISH PAINTER – Capturing skin tones, movement, and fabric
MARC STOCK (1951/2014), AMERICAN PAINTER – Stylish women in slinky gowns and white-gloved butlers
