These days seem to be built for introverts. Stay at home, don’t congregate in groups, avoid contact. While the rest of the world goes stir crazy, introverts quietly read a book. …Unless their family is trapped at home with them.
Call for Art: 6′ of space
At the end of this collection of people quietly reading is a call for art. I’m looking for artworks depicting the very strange new rule of 6′ of space. See details below. Thank you!
Quietly Reading
Search for paintings of women reading, and so many appear that it could be a genre. Perhaps the book was how the model was coaxed into sitting still long enough to be painted.
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Deineka (1899-1969) Young Woman with Book, 1934
David Park, Woman Reading, 1957
Giovanni Giacometti (1868-1933) Alberto Reading, 1915
People from my Thursday “Effects of Light” class, did you see effects in the Giacometti above? Wow. The colors are luminous as stained glass! Blend nothing ever.
John Duncan Fergusson (1874-1961), Lamplight, 1900
“Vanessa Bell was a central member of the Bloomsbury Group in London. She was a painter, textile designer, ceramic designer, and graphic designer. She is also well known for being the sister of Virginia Woolf. (…) Vanessa Bell designed this book cover for Virginia Woolf’s book of essays, The Second Common Reader. She designed many covers for Woolf’s work, which were published by Hogarth Press, owned and run by Leonard Woolf, Virginia’s husband….”
I wasn’t going to include any photographs, but this one gave me a smile, and seemed prescient: 6 feet of space.
CALL FOR ART
I’m interested in seeing pictures that illustrate the very strange 6′ social distancing rule. Open to any media (photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, etc). Must be a League member to submit. Please email your works and include your name, size and materials of your piece, and your website/social media page. Send your images to ruthiev(at)seattleartistleague.com before April 14.
Include “6′ of Space” in the subject line. I’ll post my favorites.
Neil Welliver is one of Patty Haller’s inspirational artists. See a resemblance? Neil Welliver in conversation with Edwin Denby Q. Why do you staple the big charcoal drawing to the white canvas? A. The charcoal drawing, when it is stapled to the white canvas, is ready to be transferred to the canvas and it’s been …
I have a new little studio to fix up. It’s a mess of a space; low ceilings, filthy and rough, but full of potential. I thought I’d let you know how I make decisions about fixing up a studio space. Today, I’ll talk about the paint. Painting an empty room is such a simple thing, and …
The Migration Series In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just twenty-three years old, completed a series of sixty paintings about the Great Migration, the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North. Lawrence’s work is a landmark in the history of modern art and a key example of the way that …
In the previous post featuring Stanley Lewis, Lewis was quoted on his admiration of Wilbur Niewald. “You have got to find out about his paintings (…) Wilbur is an interpreter of Cézanne and Mondrian.” – Lewis Following this advice, I looked up Wilbur Niewald. My eyes were most eager to look at his drawings, still life, and …
Quietly Reading
These days seem to be built for introverts. Stay at home, don’t congregate in groups, avoid contact. While the rest of the world goes stir crazy, introverts quietly read a book. …Unless their family is trapped at home with them.
Call for Art: 6′ of space
At the end of this collection of people quietly reading is a call for art. I’m looking for artworks depicting the very strange new rule of 6′ of space. See details below. Thank you!
Quietly Reading
Search for paintings of women reading, and so many appear that it could be a genre. Perhaps the book was how the model was coaxed into sitting still long enough to be painted.
People from my Thursday “Effects of Light” class, did you see effects in the Giacometti above? Wow. The colors are luminous as stained glass! Blend nothing ever.
According to http://www.painting-box.com/:
“Vanessa Bell was a central member of the Bloomsbury Group in London. She was a painter, textile designer, ceramic designer, and graphic designer. She is also well known for being the sister of Virginia Woolf. (…) Vanessa Bell designed this book cover for Virginia Woolf’s book of essays, The Second Common Reader. She designed many covers for Woolf’s work, which were published by Hogarth Press, owned and run by Leonard Woolf, Virginia’s husband….”
I wasn’t going to include any photographs, but this one gave me a smile, and seemed prescient: 6 feet of space.
CALL FOR ART
I’m interested in seeing pictures that illustrate the very strange 6′ social distancing rule. Open to any media (photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, etc). Must be a League member to submit. Please email your works and include your name, size and materials of your piece, and your website/social media page. Send your images to ruthiev(at)seattleartistleague.com before April 14.
Include “6′ of Space” in the subject line. I’ll post my favorites.
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