The Cleveland Museum of Art, in association with the Royal Academy of Arts in London, is staging an exhibit entitled “Painting The Modern Garden: Monet To Matisse.” As I read from the CMA website and looked at the paintings they …
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Marcel Burger (Anna Paulowna Noord-Holland, 1964) self-taught artist. Started drawing and painting in 1984. At the time, mainly engaged in airbrush. Won numerous awards (including trips to Milan and New York) in the course…
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If you have a starving artist or two on your holiday gift-giving list, we’ve assembled some creative accessories to amuse, surprise and delight the artistic spirit in anyone. Whether you’re looking for something practical, a little luxury your recipient may …
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Agnes Preszler was born in 1961 in Budapest (Hungary), where in 1988 she graduated in computer science. Since 1990 she lives in Italy. Her artistic career began in 2003 with freehand digital painting. Encouraged by the success she continued with the traditional…
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Today’s art students have such a wealth of educational opportunities that just a few years ago were unthinkable. Anyone who painted or studied art BC – Before Computers – knows what that means. Trips to the library to borrow books, …
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A Los Angeles native, Mike Quon was greatly influenced by his father, Milton Quon, one of the first Asian-American animators at The Walt Disney Companies and an accomplished watercolorist. After graduating from UCLA, where Mike studied…
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I love painting flowers. I use my paints to sculpt a flat piece of paper into a three dimensional image. Conveying the curves and contours of flowers and foliage is an ever-changing challenge, as no two petals or leaves are identical…
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My name is Art Scott. I’ve dabbled in the arts my whole life. My mom was the creative type and painted herself. So it’s pretty easy to guess I started out painting with Acrylics in my teens as well. At first I painted all sorts of things, and then found…
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We’ve scoured the Internet and have accumulated a great collection of art apps for your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. These applications vary from tools to help you create art, reference material to learn more about your favorite artist and …
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The son of a poor tinsmith, Henri Rousseau was born in the Loire Valley of France in 1844. His early life had none of the romance and education of an artist. In 1868, after spending four years in the military, …
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Want to do something fun and unusual with your art? Get involved with the Artist Trading Card movement. This group began as a means to promote artwork. Originally, artists traded cards face to face at swap meets, and later sent …
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Thomas Kinkade (January 19, 1958 – April 6, 2012), Painter of Light, is critically well known to the art world and beloved by millions of consumers who have his artwork on their walls, calendars, tote bags and coffee mugs. Mr. …
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The Internet has changed our lives dramatically. Artists in search of instruction, inspiration or fodder for subject matter had limited choices before the birth of the Internet. Traveling far afield to take classes was expensive and time consuming. Searching for …
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An artist generally works in solitude, whether in his studio or home workroom. This is a tenable situation for most painters, who often relish solitude in their working environment. However, there are times in which almost every artist would like …
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Edward Hopper was born in the last part of the 19th century and lived until the mid-1960s. This span of time was incredibly fast-paced, spawning and seeing the end of two world wars, a stifling depression and the advent of …
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Georgia O’Keefe may be best known for her close-up paintings of flowers, but this artist had a wide range of subject matter, style and technique over the span of her years. She was among the first generation of women to …
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Monet was one of a group of well-known painters in the late 19th and early 20th century. Some of his most famous paintings are: View At Rouelles, Hunting Trophy, Mouth of the Seine at Honfleur, Fontainebleau Forest, Camille (The Woman …
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