Come and take an inspiring journey into the world of art and the artists compelled to make it.
Art
John James Audubon: The Birds of America
Length: 29:32
PublicResourceOrg — December 12, 2009 — 1986 ARC Identifier 55178 / Local Identifier 306-AAM-22.
This program commemorates the 200th Anniversary of this 19th century naturalist and artist, John James Audubon. To highlight Audubon’s development as an artist, the program uses quotations from his journals, illustrations from his original drawings and engravings, and works of art by other artists of the period.
The images of the works of art are interwoven with live motion nature photography and footage of sites significant to Audubon’s life and work. U.S. Information Agency. (1982 – 10/01/1999)
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The Sistine Chapel by Michaelangelo Buonarroti
Years ago, very few people were allowed to learn to read and write. Access to books was only given to a select few. In order to teach their people about the word of God, churches would commission (hire) artist’s to paint frescos or sculpt statues relating to stories in the Bibles. Some of the greatest museum’s are the churches of old. These paintings are from the beginning of the Renaissance Era (1450-1600) in which human knowledge and inventions grew by leaps and bounds thanks to a few Renaissance Men, like Leonardo Da’Vinci and Michaelangelo Buonarroti.
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litania przeniesienie ciala (litany of saints)
Click the arrow above to listen to ambience music while you watch this slide presentation of Rennaisance Art.
L.A. Unit 1: Seeing Like a Writer
Impressionism
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The Blue Pond by Luis Graner Arrufi
GRANER, y Arrufi, Luis
Spanish, 1867-1922
Born in Barcelona, Spain, Luis Graner arrived in the United States in 1910 and was in New Orleans intermittently from 1914 to 1922. Reportedly he painted many scenes of rural Louisiana, which became some of his most signature work..He also was active in California where he painted scenes of La Jolla dated 1910. He opened a studio in New York City after he left New Orleans. By the time he arrived in the United States, he had an established international reputation for portraits, genre subj
from: askart.com *Note: Check back on Friday for full biography.
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Mother and Child by Mary Cassatt
Mary (Stevenson) Cassatt
American, 1844-1926
Artist. Born on May 22, 1844, in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. Mary Cassatt was one of the leading artists in the Impressionist movement of the later part of the 1800s…. She is best known for her luminous portraits of women and children, such as The Morning Toilet (1886) and Mother Feeding a Child (1898). A less recognized legacy was her influence in getting many Americans to acquire Impressionist and other contemporary French paintings now in U.S. museums.
from: biography.com
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Play in the Surf by Edward Henry Potthast
Edward Henry Potthast
American, 1857-1927
Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927 ) was an American Impressionist painter. In 1886 he departed for Paris, where he studied with Fernand Cormon. In 1895 he relocated to New York City and remained there until his death in 1927.
from: artst.org
What all of these artists have in common is they exemplify a period in art called Impessionism in which artist’s began rebelling against traditional norms and began to explore the idea of painting with light, moods, and movement.
Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism
Radicals in their time, early Impressionists broke the rules of academic painting. They began by giving colours, freely brushed, primacy over line, drawing inspiration from the work of painters such as Eugene Delacroix. They took the act of painting out of the studio and into the world.
Artful Fun
A cool way to view your photos on Flickr. TagGalaxy will make a planet out of your photos or any tag that you type into their page.
When you arrive at TagGalaxy simply type in a tag (keyword) to watch the creation of your photo galaxy. Related tags will be shown as neighboring planets. If you see a related keyword you like better, simply click on it to have it take center stage. Click on the central planet, and TagGalaxy will begin to assemble photos in the shape of a planet that are related to your tag word.
One click on a photography will enlarge it and give you the title. A second click, enlarges it further, gives you the photographer and other information about the photo if available, and shows a link to the photo’s Flickr page.
Our view of the world is sometimes changed by the way we view it, and viewing a particular thought, such as “school” in TagGalaxy can give you a much different view than perhaps you expected. I not only found children in a classic American school, I also found a young ballet dancer, Amish children leaving in a buggy, Orthodox Jewish students playing around, Middle Eastern students in the door of their classroom and much more. Expand your horizons and pick a tag to explore.
If you’d like a planet of your own Flickr photos, simply type in your Flickr screen name. Suzanne Whisler brought this to my attention and her photography can be found by typing in [necc09] without the brackets.
A Galaxy of Photography
By Cynthia Kirkeby
Jul 1, 2009, 6:35am
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Intro to Prehistoric Art, 20,000?-8,000 B.C.
Cupules between 30,000 and 40,000 years old
Cupules (Fig. 1) are the earliest surviving rock art we know about in the world, but this does not necessarily make them the first rock art produced.
Cupules—- the oldest surviving rock art, ROBERT G. BEDNARIK
No doubt, more will be discovered and written about as you grow up.
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