Previously I posted four masterwork studies drawn by Fran O’Neill and I challenged you to identify them. I don’t have a good memory for names, but I did recognize the works in a general way, and I was impressed when you named all but one. I admit I didn’t recognize the landscape but the scene did look familiar.
I asked Fran for clues about the landscape:
“Orvieto is a hillside walled town perched in the Umbrian countryside. The Duomo there has incredible Signorelli frescoes, that apparently Michelangelo went to look at before starting the Sistine Chapel. NYSS used to host a summer program from there. I was lucky enough to be the administrator 2, maybe 3 times. The drawing was me taking a break from the class, sitting on the wall and drawing the view.” – Fran O’Neill
So… evidently the place was art historic but the drawing wasn’t a masterwork study, it was an original O’Neill circa 2005. The drawing had been mistakenly grouped in with her masterwork studies on Instagram, so I mistakenly put it in the contest. There was no masterwork, other than the original O’Neill itself.
Tomorrow’s post: Find out who is buried in Grant’s tomb!
Hotel La Badia as viewed from Orvieto
Fran O’Neill’s study from the wall of Orvieto c. 2005
Fran O’Neill’s Landscapes class starts in 4 days! Can’t do Tuesday afternoons? You can watch recordings of the class on your own time, and we’ll schedule you for 1:1 feedback directly with the instructor. Click here to learn more.
San Brizio Chapel in Orvieto Cathedral
San Brizio Chapel in Orvieto Cathedral
“The Duomo [in Orvieto] has incredible Signorelli frescoes, that apparently Michelangelo went to look at before starting the Sistine Chapel.” – Fran O’Neill
Signorelli’s frescoes of the apocalypse were inspirations for Michelangelo’s Last Judgment.
Signorelli painted gnashing of teeth and nasty awful tortury scenes of hell and heck and purgatory all over up and down that gosh darned ceiling. Click here to learn about the frescoes that inspired Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel.
This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. TUCKET : a fanfare on a trumpet Merriam-Webster: Tucket can be found most notably …
Last week I sent out a creative invitation to put googly eyes on inanimate objects. The responses on Instagram made our heads spin! Below are a few selected from the whole googly bunch. Stay tuned! The monkeys are gathering their favorites for week 2 of the #30SAL Challenge. Posting soon!
An atelier is a snobby word for an artist’s workshop space. The word studio is from the Italian: studio, and from Latin: studium, from studere, meaning to study or zeal. The word atelier is French for workshop, especially the workroom or studio of a sculptor or painter, 1840, from French atelier, going back to the Old French astelier which was a carpenter’s workshop, woodpile …
“The beginning is the best part. Why continue? Yes, things will get richer and deeper, but the simplicity and directness of a birdsong is soon gone. When I get old and begin losing my marbles I will learn to keep it simple, the way Matisse, De Kooning and Whistler did in the end.” – Alex …
Well, this is embarrassing…
Previously I posted four masterwork studies drawn by Fran O’Neill and I challenged you to identify them. I don’t have a good memory for names, but I did recognize the works in a general way, and I was impressed when you named all but one. I admit I didn’t recognize the landscape but the scene did look familiar.
I asked Fran for clues about the landscape:
“Orvieto is a hillside walled town perched in the Umbrian countryside. The Duomo there has incredible Signorelli frescoes, that apparently Michelangelo went to look at before starting the Sistine Chapel. NYSS used to host a summer program from there. I was lucky enough to be the administrator 2, maybe 3 times. The drawing was me taking a break from the class, sitting on the wall and drawing the view.” – Fran O’Neill
So… evidently the place was art historic but the drawing wasn’t a masterwork study, it was an original O’Neill circa 2005. The drawing had been mistakenly grouped in with her masterwork studies on Instagram, so I mistakenly put it in the contest. There was no masterwork, other than the original O’Neill itself.
Tomorrow’s post: Find out who is buried in Grant’s tomb!
Fran O’Neill’s Landscapes class starts in 4 days! Can’t do Tuesday afternoons? You can watch recordings of the class on your own time, and we’ll schedule you for 1:1 feedback directly with the instructor. Click here to learn more.
San Brizio Chapel in Orvieto Cathedral
“The Duomo [in Orvieto] has incredible Signorelli frescoes, that apparently Michelangelo went to look at before starting the Sistine Chapel.” – Fran O’Neill
Signorelli painted gnashing of teeth and nasty awful tortury scenes of hell and heck and purgatory all over up and down that gosh darned ceiling. Click here to learn about the frescoes that inspired Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel.
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