I seem to have gotten into “creative mode” since the decision to work with the celery root as a subject. This may have to do with the deliberate choice of something I knew I would struggle with. The challenge seems to have woken me up, which I like. I’ll have to take care not to […]
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Celery root, anyone?
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Exhibition Visit: Mike Kelley
I visited the Mike Kelley Exhibition at Moma PS 1, Long Island City, New York. I think this was the first time that I deliberately went to an exhibition of modern art. My elder sister had notified me about Mike Kelley’s exhibition in New York. I had never heard of this artist and looked him […]
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More artists: Georgia O’Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe was an American Painter (1887 – 1986), “recognized as the Mother of American Modernism” (Wikipedia). I became curious when I found her in the series of stamps “American Artists 1913- 31” by the United States Postal Services. I had often heard her name but never taken a closer look. After my move to […]
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More artists: Paul Noble, Charlotte Verity, Piet Mondrian, Leon Kossoff
My tutor suggested in the report on assignment 3 that I take a closer look at these four artists: Paul noble – For personal interpretation of townscapes in pencil. Charlotte Verity – Trees for fluidity and sense of movement. Piet Mondrian’s trees – again for the use of manipulation of media. Leon Kossoff – energy […]
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More artists: Paul Klee
Paul Klee, born in Switzerland of German origin, 1879 – 1940 I received an advert for the Paul Klee exhibition at Tate Modern, London. I always liked the subtle tonality of Paul Klee’s paintings, and I was immediately curious what kind of drawings he may have made. A brief Google image search brought up wonderful […]
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More Artists: Georg Kolbe
Georg Kolbe (1877 – 1947) was a German painter and sculptor. I saw one of his drawings in the textbook on drawing the human figure by Gottfried Bammes which I studied for the research point on structure. I was impressed by the energy and lightness of these drawings. Reading the Wikipedia article on Kolbe, I […]
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Exhibition visit: Hopper drawing
For several weeks I had seen the announcements for the exhibition of Hopper drawings at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Time was flying and finally I made it there, three weeks before its closing date (October 6). I had done some preliminary research. The exposition’s website is very informative. The aim […]
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Visit to the National Gallery, Oslo, Norway
I went to Oslo in Norway for a day… I loved it. I know it’s very irresponsible from an environmental point of view, adding to ever growing flight tourism and associated pollution, but well… I had many individual-centred justifications for just doing what is possible today which wouldn’t have been possible 20 years ago. The […]
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More artists: Henri Matisse
I came across some drawings by Henri Matisse (1869 – 1954) by accident. Searching for watercolours by Emil Nolde, I was directed to the page of a commercial gallery which had organized an exhibition of works by Henri Matisse, too, and presented some of the drawings and prints of the exhibition. I had seen some […]
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More artists: Matt Niebuhr
I discovered Matt Niebuhr when I was searching on the web for oil pastel drawings. I came across an abstract drawing of a plaited structure in black and red. It is actually a mixed media work of oil pastel with graphite. I really like it. It is in stark contrast to the mostly naturalistic works […]
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