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Are You a Better Artist Than a Cave Man?

Stone age cave dwellers were artists in the grand manner manifested in works of subtlety and power that has never been surpassed. Archeologist can say little about the small, hairy, and unlettered Paleolithic ancestors of ours that lived in prehistory, … Continue reading →

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Art Center Information Considers the Painting of Reflections

Here at Art Center Information, we have often been asked about the proper way to portray reflections. For your art information, we wish to pass on the following tips. We hope it helps you. Remember, the angle of incidence and … Continue reading →

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“Old Woodie”: Another Day Toward a Finished Painting

Well, I dug “old Woodie” out of the bin and decided to take the painting another day toward a finished work. At this rate, I should finish about this time next year. What my attempt today was to get the … Continue reading →

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Art Center Information Presents Flag by Jasper Johns

Is it a flag or a painting?~Jasper Johns You can tell that the forty-eight state American flag below is not a picture of the work of Jasper Johns. However, you can’t help having patriotic feelings when looking at Mr. Johns’ … Continue reading →

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Gustave Courbet: An Uncompromising Artist

Not only was Gustave Courbet’s class-conscious art subject matter alien to critics, but his uncompromising and painting technique, evolved to treat rural themes, was mostly immortalizing the common, middle and laboring classes of his home town…people with whom he was … Continue reading →

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Paul Klee: An Astonishingly Prolific Art Technician

For your art information and insight, Art Center Information proudly gives you a moment to appreciate the artist, Paul Klee, undoubtedly one of painting’s most inventive technicians. He was a very prolific artist that had at any given time a … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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