I just stumbled onto these beautiful acrylic paintings by David Agenjo who is a self-taught artist born in Madrid but living and working in London. He has a number of prints and several original works available over on Saatchi Online. More
Selecting a concentration topic is of paramount importance when it comes to developing the AP Studio Art Portfolio–students must select something that offers enough engagement and interest to…
Oh my! Breathtaking paintings by Canadian artist Alexandra Levasseur! I wrote about Levasseur at the beginning of this year (read it here) and I love her work, but I love her new paintings even mor…
Austrian artist Martin C. Herbst pushes the limits of two dimensional portraits with his series of distorted oil paintings on crumpled aluminum.
Cristina Troufa talks to The Arty Teacher about her work and themes and gives advice to art students who are inspired by ther work.
“I am interested in the symbols that are flooding our world, which everybody can recognize, but which have almost no meaning.”
Íme egy könnyen érthető, rajzos magyarázat néhány sokszor összekevert ige használatához!
Are You Giving Your Students Too Many Choices? Connections % %
this term i'm teaching advanced 2d art. it's one of my favorite classes to teach because it is so much about ideas. it's about the kids making their own work, not mine. it can be tiring but incredibly fulfilling for me...and for them. i spend the entire first week teaching them how to develop a theme they can work with for the whole term. this year what i did was to put pictures of famous works of art around the room. i then asked them to walk around and look at the work recording what they observed. on the worksheets you see below i asked them to generally record themes & concepts (what the work was about) and subject matter (what was the work a picture of). after a healthy debate about what i meant by themes & concepts, the difference between themes and subject matter, and a discussion about how anything could be a theme and the fact that many themes overlap we made this list as a group of possible themes to work with. we also decided as a group that a theme was a big idea and definitely something you could hold or touch. after this activity each student chose a theme they were willing to commit to for the entire term and they made a brainstorming web with their theme at the center. i use these webs as starting points for almost all the projects over the course of the term. some students chose themes that are way too big. some chose themes that will go cliche real fast. i tried hard to control my natural tendency to save them by correcting these mistakes. they will suffer a bit, but through the suffering they will learn either not to choose such things in the future or how to grapple with it today. either way i'm pretty happy. we'll see what kind of work we get.
Working out of her studio in the city of Lille, in Northern France, on the border with Belgium, Hélène Delmaire is an oil painter focused on both traditional
Les Trois Grâces (In the studio of sculptor Aristide Maillol), 1937, Erwin Blumenfeld
