Edvard Munch: The Sun, 1910–11. Oil on canvas“I even work in the wheatfields at midday, in the full heat of the sun, without any shade whatever, and there you are, I revel in it like a cicada” Vincent Van Gogh to Emile Bernard.Frederic Edwin Church, Late Afternoon Sun Over a Stream, 1855–65, oil on cardboardEdward Hopper, People in the Sun, 1960, oil on canvas
Sargy Mann, The Point Morning, 50×40″ oil on canvas
Vincent DaCosta Smith, The Long Hot Summer, 1965. Etching on paper, 19 3/4 x 16 1/16″Florine Stettheimer, Heat, 1919. 50 x 36 1/2″ Oil on canvasUtagawa Hiroshige, View of Nihonbashi Tori-itchome (Nihonbashi Tori-itchome Ryakuzu), No. 44 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1858. Woodblock print, 14 3/16 x 9 3/8″Ivon Hitchens, Flowers in Hot Sun Alper Dostal, Hot Exhibition, a series of digitally altered versions of masterpieces
Finally! I’m posting the 30SAL Finalists for January 2022! Over 4,000 30SAL Artworks posted to Padlet and Instagram In January, artists all over the globe sketched, inked, sculpted, collaged, and animated their way through our 30 Day Creative Challenge. Challenges exercised a wide array of artistic skills, including observation, composition, sequence, see & respond, vocabulary, …
This is the first of three posts about Scott McClellan, head of ceramics at the Seattle Artist League—his work, his approach, and the tone he sets in the studio. Scott McClellan’s vessels seem caught mid-motion. They settle into themselves without ever going still. His forms press downward—weighty, bodily. Surfaces remain raw and exposed, with nothing …
[image_with_animation image_url=”8621″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Xu Wei (1521-1593) was a Ming Chinese painter, poet, calligrapher and dramatist. He was raised by a single mother who died when he was 14. He married a woman, who died 5 years later. He fought Japanese pirates. He had bipolar disorder, a condition recognized in China, so after …
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[image_with_animation image_url=”8621″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Xu Wei (1521-1593) was a Ming Chinese painter, poet, calligrapher and dramatist. He was raised by a single mother who died when he was 14. He married a woman, who died 5 years later. He fought Japanese pirates. He had bipolar disorder, a condition recognized in China, so after …
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