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This Year Marks a Century Since the Death of Howard Pyle

“I was struck dumb with admiration”~Vincent van Gogh, speaking about Howard Pyle. The Delaware Art Museum Celebrates 100 years The Delaware Art Museum,in Wilmington, was founded in 1912 to preserve and exhibit the art of Howard Pyle following his untimely … Continue reading →

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Art Center Information Presents the Impressionists

The system of loosely dabbing and dashing paint employed by Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir to preserve the spontaneity of a late summer or early autumn moment at Argenteuil (a suburb of Paris on the bank of the Seine), or, … Continue reading →

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Artist’s Paint Media: A Brief History

Artist’s paint media is made by grinding pigment and dispersing it in a binding medium which binds the pigment to a support or substrate. Wax was the earliest known medium and was used mainly by the Greeks and Romans. It … Continue reading →

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For Your Art Information, We are Re-Posting One of My Art Works in Progress

Art Center Information is proud to present the following: This is a pencil drawing that I did of a photograph of my father taken back in 1949 filling up a gas tank of the automobile we nick-named the “Old Woodie”. … Continue reading →

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Perspective-Nothing is as it Seems

“Nothing much is really the way it seems. If you could travel faster than light, you might set out on a trip and arrive back before you leave.”~Einstein Einstein also said that there’s really no such thing in the universe … Continue reading →

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El Greco: Famous Artist’s Techniques

Techniques of the famous artists in the world is as revealing as their biographies. Consider this, the reason artists painted landscapes for hundreds of years without moving toward impressionism lies not in the subject matter but in technique. Do you … Continue reading →

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The Louvre-All The Paintings: The Next Best Thing To Being There

Please note: The book was given away and any reference to this book (The Louvre: All The Paintings) being given away no longer applies as of July 16, 2012. To see the selection of the winner, please click on the … Continue reading →

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Three Tips to Paint Sunlight

If you are painting your landscape from nature, you may find the hues changing as the sun crosses the sky. In many instances there is the need to finish the work in the studio. You should get in the habit … Continue reading →

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Working on the “Old Woodie”

I hope for the sake of art information you artists understand what I am doing here. I am working on the “Old Woodie. I hope as an artist you realize the importance of the different stages that an artist goes … Continue reading →

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Wassily Kandinsky – Painting Needs No Other Subject Matter Than Itself

For your art information, we present a few notes about Constructivism. The Constructivists declared art must be free of subject matter. Kazimer Malevich, with his “Black Square on a White Field” and his famous “White on White” painting probably sounded … Continue reading →

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