Readers often send me personal responses to these V. Note postings. Yesterday I received a story I had to share.
“I went to Linfield college in the late 60s and we had a seminar that Andy Warhol spoke at. I was excited to attend as I was and am a big fan of his. He gave his lecture and it was a terrific hit with all who were there.
I remember him as a small man with thin brownish hair. As I recall he kept us waiting for a long time before he appeared on stage.
We found out later that it was not even him. He had paid someone to go in his place.” – League artist Kathy Paul, shared with permission
[image_with_animation image_url=”9700″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Topophilia (From Greek topos “place” and -philia, “love of”) is a strong sense of place, which often becomes mixed with the sense of cultural identity among certain people and a love of certain aspects of such a place. Today is the second of a series of Topophilia Creative Exercises, this …
Search the internet for perspective, and Western perspective is pretty much all you’ll see. Billions of lessons illustrating the importance of one point, two point, and three point perspective. Lessons state that this is something every artist needs to learn in order to correctly render the three dimensional world on a two dimensional surface. It …
[image_with_animation image_url=”6410″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Vote for your favorite Seattle Artist League mascot! The winning entry could end up on a poster, or as a mural on our building. Please see entries below, and use the comments to cast your vote. Forward to your friends, this is open to all. Still want to submit an …
As a painter, trying my hand at printmaking was a little frustrating. Ink on paper is gorgeous even when I make mistakes, but there was something about every print that drove me nuts. So what is it that’s so frustrating about printmaking? I was talking to Nikki about this. She had a good idea: traditional …
Andy Warhol’s speech at Linfield College
Readers often send me personal responses to these V. Note postings. Yesterday I received a story I had to share.
“I went to Linfield college in the late 60s and we had a seminar that Andy Warhol spoke at. I was excited to attend as I was and am a big fan of his. He gave his lecture and it was a terrific hit with all who were there.
I remember him as a small man with thin brownish hair. As I recall he kept us waiting for a long time before he appeared on stage.
We found out later that it was not even him. He had paid someone to go in his place.” – League artist Kathy Paul, shared with permission
If you’d like to hear Warhol share more of his shenanigans, come hear him talk at the League this Saturday at 1:30pm. I can’t believe our luck in booking him!
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