Session three of The Art World: TODAY takes a closer look at the role celebrity plays in the art world. Can artists be celebrities? Can celebrities be artists? Can an artist become too famous? What happens when an artist is more famous than their work? Is this necessarily a bad thing? Art theory will have […]
Read more "The Art World & Celebrity"The second session of my series The Art World: TODAY is all about fashion. Does haute couture have a place in the art world? One could easily argue that fashion is definitely an artform, but is it a fine art? Do we need such designations in the art world in 2019? Answer questions like these […]
Read more "The Art World & Fashion"This fall I am bringing my class, The Art World: TODAY, to SoBo Gallery in historic downtown Winter Garden, FL as a very special four-part series. Hosted by the Winter Garden Art Association, we will explore a different topic each week with the principles of art theory driving our discussion. On Saturday, September 21 our […]
Read more "The Art World & Social Media"The 2019 edition of the Art Lovers Book Club concluded this past Saturday with a discussion of A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline. I was really moved by this book as it is told from the perspective of Christina Olson, the subject of Andrew Wyeth’s most famous painting, “Christina’s World.” The author […]
Read more "A Piece of the World"The 2nd Annual Art Lovers Book Club is in high gear at the Winter Garden Art Association! My gratitude to everyone who attended yesterday’s discussion of Javier Sierra’s The Secret Supper. Some really profound observations were shared and that made the experience even more enjoyable for me as facilitator. One reason I chose Sierra’s novel is […]
Read more "The Secret Supper"This past Saturday I kicked off the 2nd annual Art Lovers Book Club at SoBo Gallery hosted by the Winter Garden Art Association. We had an amazing time discussing June’s book, Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriett Scott Chessman. You may remember that I posted about this book on the blog back in […]
Read more "Art Lovers Book Club 2019"The current art exhibition on view at SoBo Gallery in Winter Garden, FL is titled “Concealed and Revealed” and features local artists interpreting the concepts of concealment and revelation – obviously. However, in addition to the expected myriad of traditional portraits and nude figures, there were some very interesting (and surprising!) mixed media pieces included […]
Read more "Concealed & Revealed"The story of the Magdalene is a wild, weird and complex one that is more mythic legend than factual event. For starters, throughout art history she is depicted as a sort of amalgam of a few different women mentioned in the Bible’s four gospels of the New Testament. Second, her story takes an extreme turn […]
Read more "Mary Magdalene"Have you ever noticed that COLOR plays a vital role in filmmaking? The image attached to this post is a before-and-after shot of a scene from the film, “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” It is a perfect example of the role COLOR plays in creating an emotional feeling for a film or establishing a time […]
Read more "How to Read a Painting – COLOR"Join me for an art meet up at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum that is FREE for members of the Winter Garden Art Association and $10 for nonmembers. I will lead our group through a unique and atypical tour of their new exhibition, “Dangerous Women: Selections from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.” […]
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