Today, get political. Draw/paint/collage/photograph/print something civic. Add your artwork to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge)
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You may recognize Morandi for his dusty still life bottles, carefully and quietly clustered in the center of the canvas. Recently, I’ve been revisiting his lesser-known but more personally inspiring collection of landscapes. In classes, we’ve been talking about simplifying a composition into shapes, and applying those shapes to pull you through the composition with …
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Gilbert Stuart’s Unfinished Portrait of George Washington Gilbert Stuart first painted George Washington in 1795 (in a work now known only from copies). That painting was so successful that, according to artist Rembrandt Peale, Martha Washington “wished a Portrait for herself.” She persuaded her husband to sit again for Stuart “on the express condition that …
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SAL Challenge Day 16: Get Political
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Haitian artist, Watson Mere
Today, get political. Draw/paint/collage/photograph/
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