“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child” pablo picasso Pablo Picasso is a household name when you think of art. His popularity grew once he pioneered a new wave of modern art in the early 1900s. Picasso typically gets a bad rap for his many…
Cultivating the Best Environments for Pretend Play
“Play is Our Brains Favorite Way of Learning” – Diane Ackerman It is very important that your home atmosphere is conducive for your children’s learning. Setting up an immersive environment for play is just as important as having the proper play materials. There are a lot of developmental advances happening for children in pretend play…
But What if I’m The “Other”?
There is no doubt that as we entered into the romantic era of around 1780 to 1830, we were introduced to a fanciful, experimental new wave of art. But how did we get there? Through what means did these new ideas of the romantic come to pass? What concepts did romanticism trainblaizers like David Casper…
Paint me Out to be Like The Royals
Ah, using art to express where you are socially. What an ever present reality for us today. In the 21st century it’s at our fingertips to show people the most curated versions of ourselves, because let’s face it social media drives our understanding of art and can act as an art form of expression for…
Tableau Vivant
Georges de la Tour’s The Penitent Magdalene contains elements of design that we have been learning about all semester. From Tenebrism, to illumination, to the memento mori this piece is riddled with interesting attributes that I thought would be interesting to recreate for this living picture. The Penitent Magdalene which is an oil painting on…
How do I Follow That?
Artists in the 1520s were faced with a real crisis affecting the work they produced. Imagine you are the artist at this time, trying to create a breakthrough, remarkable piece that wins over the masses. By now the High Renaissance had rightfully earned its name by creating some of the most high quality works not…
Something Borrowed, for Something New
There are plenty of great artists that need to borrow from the past in order to create new, beautiful art. Quinten Tarantino for example wrote his first feature film Reservoir Dogs with a scene irrefutably taken from Ringo Lam’s 1987 movie City on Fire. If he were to not take that concept and turn it…
Blog Post #6 – Contemporary Manuscript Illumination
To create this manuscript and ensure it was illuminating to a reader, I decided to use an old tea bag and saturate the paper first to give it a weathered aged look. Medieval manuscripts had to be made out of raw natural materials. The pages were created by stretching and scraping off an animal hyde….
Blog Post 4 – Representing the Body
It has been truly fascinating to learn about the early representation of the human form. It has always been true that different countries value different parts of the body. The creativity used to render body sculptures in ancient art is interesting because some features are dramatized and others left under dramatized. Some cultures favor some…
Blog Post 3- Repatriation
The debate of repatriation of art is one I don’t hold solid beliefs on yet. The idea of stolen art being returned to its rightful owner is of course reasonable, buty what if the artists who created certain pieces were unreachable. The fate of a work is usually decided by the artist himself or herself….