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.
[image_with_animation image_url=”10969″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Best print of the day: Katy’s Aurora Bridge and Connie’s Octopus combined Steamroller Moments: Nikki (printmaking instructor and lead for the day) telling Nickie (certified heavy equipment operator) where to aim the steamroller to get the maximum out of the press. Nikki and Nickie nailed it to the quarter …
[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 …
The Reith Lectures, Grayson Perry: Playing to the Gallery: 2013 Episode 1 of 4 Listen in pop-out player In the first of four lectures with the BBC, recorded in front of an audience at Tate Modern in London, the artist Grayson Perry reflects on the idea of quality and examines who and what defines what we …
Notations A multi-media art show about migration, music, health, and family. Lucy Garnett seeks to understand the themes of migration, music, health, and family by breaking them down and rebuilding them into sculpture, print, painting, and installation. Reception: Saturday Dec 14, 5-8pmOn display: December 14, 2019 – end of March 2020Open: Monday through Friday, 8-5pmShow …
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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Read, and be well.
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