I didn’t even want the brush to come between me and the image.
[Regarding the white paintings…] If you have size, you have proportion. If you have size and proportion, and if white is a color, than you have a painting.
An artist has to start without any conceivable purpose other than curiosity and a sense of adventure. Not a good job, not a better life. I just do what I do.
I think curiosity is probably the most important energy that any creative person can have.
Creative Challenge: Think of a person. They can be someone from any time in history – someone you know, someone famous, or a character in a story. Then, based on their personality, design a hat for them. Go all out on this! They don’t actually need to wear it. Materials for this creative challenge are …
“No one did more to reanimate the tired old genre of still life painting in the last half century than did Mr Thiebaud with his paintings of industrially regimented food products.” (NYT, 2004) In 2000, Thiebaud told PBS’ NewsHour with Jim Lehrer that the subject of food was “fun and humorous, and that’s dangerous in …
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! Salman Toor, born in 1983, is an American painter raised in Pakistan. He creates paintings that depict the imagined lives of young gay men, often of Asian descent. His artwork explores various themes, including the treatment of brown men, the experiences of young people in public and private …
Robert Rauschenberg with Charlie Rose
Quotes:
I didn’t even want the brush to come between me and the image.
[Regarding the white paintings…] If you have size, you have proportion. If you have size and proportion, and if white is a color, than you have a painting.
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