Robert Frank is one of the world’s most influential photographers. For more than fifty years, he has broken the rules of photography and film making, challenging the boundaries between the still and the moving image. @ Tate
Art in the Making: Degas - Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) was one of the most experimental artists of the 19th century. Throughout his long career he constantly found new ways to use oil paint, chalk, pastel, essence and printmaking processes (in particular monotypes), often combining two or more media in the same work. This exhibition is part of Art in the Making, the National Gallery’s ongoing series of exhibitions on artists’ techniques, and comprises in-depth examination of some twelve works by Degas. These will be complemented by x-radiographs, infra-red reflectograms and pigment analyses, with loans of works from Britain and abroad. It will reveal to a general audience, which has long loved this artist, just how complex Degas’s working methods could be.
Rafael: de Urbino a Roma (1483–1520) @ National Gallery, Londres.
Raphael was brought up in the cultured surroundings of the Court of Urbino, where he picked up the manners that were to allow him to move in the highest circles throughout his short life. He travelled from city to city, befriending artists and patrons, proving his skill with smaller works and gradually gaining the big commissions. Everywhere he went was an opportunity to study the work of other artists. Over the course of a decade of ceaseless work and absorption of other artist’s styles, Raphael developed a unique personal style that was to draw him to the attention of the greatest patron of all, the Pope.
I’m Javier Olivares, born in Madrid (Spain) in 1964. I’ve been working as comic book artist and professional illustrator since 1985. (via *.*)
Não é por nada, não, mas a minha mãe é o máximo. O chão de Vergara, artigo dela no JB de hoje.
ImpossÃvel não lembrar de um Brasil profundo, de caminhão parado em bar de beira de estrada. E é essa a terra que esse gaúcho do interior ”corrige”. Para que dela nasçam as sugestões de volume do Calor IV, a solidão do Sem tÃtulo 6. Vergara joga uma pesquisa em novos materiais para que brote um barroco que está ali (e em nós), dormente como uma semente, desde sempre.
Portrait of the art world - a century of ARTnews photographs @ Smithsonian.
Van Gogh’s letters
Mind you, to see it like that, one must not look at the local colour by itself, but in conjunction with the colour of the sky!
That sky is grey -but so iridescent that even our pure white would be unable to render this light and shimmer. Now, if one begins by painting this sky grey, thus remaining far below the intensity of nature, how much more necessary it is to tone down the browns and yellowish-greys of the soil to a lower key, in order to be consistent. I think if once one analyses it thus, it is so logical, one can hardly understand not having always seen it so.
But it is the local colour of a green field, or a ruddy brown heath, which, considered apart, easily leads one astray.
Drenthe, 12 October 1883
Art=Design=Invention
The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture… Sometimes… it seems to me that… all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art. - Michelangelo
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