Monday, November 2, 2009
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Toulouse-Lautrec
Most famous for his posters of for the Moulin Rouge, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was French post-impressionist artist who dabbled in various art forms such as painting, printmaking, and illustration. Toulouse-Lautrec lived from 1864 t0 1901. Due to a debilitating disease mostly from a family history of inbreeding, Lautrec only grew scarcely to five feet, with child sized legs and adult torso. Lautrec turned to art as means of passing his time as he was unable to physically take part many other activities, and during the twenties years of his art career he produced an estimated 737 canvases, 275 watercolors, 363 prints and posters, and 5,084 drawings (source: wikipedia).
Lautrec's work is best known for depicting the bohemian lifestyle of Paris at the time, and is mostly comprised vibrant buildups of color to create forms, heavily lines outlining figures, and noticeable brushstrokes to create an exciting and lively sense of movement.
Monday, October 12, 2009
PAFA and Welcome House
Last Thursday I met up with a friend that goes to the Academy of Fine Arts to attend an model drawing session at PAFA. It was open to the public for a few of ten dollars. Since I haven't had an ample chance to draw since high school it was a good opportunity for me brush up and break out the pencils that where collecting dust in my room.
I had never been to PAFA before so it was an entirely new experience. I had considered PAFA in my college search but I disregarded it as "too tradition" and I felt I was too unsure of my career path to be locked into a strictly art school. But after checking out PAFA I kind of regret writing it off so quickly.
Before the session started, my friend gave me quick tour of the cast hall, which was pretty amazing. One cast was so massive it nearly touched the ceiling and took up a good portion of the room. The foot of the statue was wider than the with of my body and my head barely reached its knee.
A few students where drawing the casts, and one of them showed me that they had complete control over the lightening of the room.
Many rooms and galleries at PAFA are only open to the students so that really limited where my friend could take me, which was very disappointing because I would have loved to check out the sketchbook they with their art vault.
This is probably where I would then compare PAFA to my time at Tyler but alas, I won't be able to do so until the spring. Then it will very be interesting to see how my experience compares with my friend's.
After the drawing session, my friend and I took a small detour to Love Park to check out the "Welcome House" that was still in the process of being set up. It didn't look like much then but I sure it would have been pretty cool to see the artists at work during the day.
I had never been to PAFA before so it was an entirely new experience. I had considered PAFA in my college search but I disregarded it as "too tradition" and I felt I was too unsure of my career path to be locked into a strictly art school. But after checking out PAFA I kind of regret writing it off so quickly.
Before the session started, my friend gave me quick tour of the cast hall, which was pretty amazing. One cast was so massive it nearly touched the ceiling and took up a good portion of the room. The foot of the statue was wider than the with of my body and my head barely reached its knee.
A few students where drawing the casts, and one of them showed me that they had complete control over the lightening of the room.
Many rooms and galleries at PAFA are only open to the students so that really limited where my friend could take me, which was very disappointing because I would have loved to check out the sketchbook they with their art vault.
This is probably where I would then compare PAFA to my time at Tyler but alas, I won't be able to do so until the spring. Then it will very be interesting to see how my experience compares with my friend's.
After the drawing session, my friend and I took a small detour to Love Park to check out the "Welcome House" that was still in the process of being set up. It didn't look like much then but I sure it would have been pretty cool to see the artists at work during the day.
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