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5 Painters to Study to Learn How to Do Dynamic Poses
I made a new art blog. You can see the video in my Artsy Sister Youtube channel. This is just to showcase the high-quality paintings I used for the blog. I am still working with the display options and whatnot. The television showed things decent enough. This is not important as all. The painters I mention in the blog are Bouguereau William-Adolphe, Norman Rockwell, Michelangelo, Fredrick Leighton and Joaquin Sorolla. You can tell a story with just hand gestures and poses. Above, you can see the paintings. I hope that you find this little visual blog useful. I am also...
Art Movements of the 19th Century
I did a new Art video blog. You can check it out in my Artsy Sister Youtube channel. Please give a like and subscribe. I spoke a little bit about all the art movements happening at the same time. In art classes, they pretend that one movement ended when the other began. Reality is never so simple. The first movement I mention is the Pre- Raphealite. They like art before Raphael showed up. They also like fancy colors Shakespeare’s Ophelia and Dante’s Divine Comedy. The second art movement is Neo Classical. It is just a continuation of what was started...
William Adolphe Bouguereau A Painter that Time Forgot
I made a video blog of this painter. You can check it out in my Artsy Sister Youtube channel. Please give a like and subscribe. This painter was a contemporary of the impressionists. Since he was a Salon painter, he lies forgotten. His students are far better known. He had hundreds, and most of them American. He would use his influence to get into the Salon at least one painting of his students. This gave them some much needed exposure. He also taught them how to make money from their artworks. Above, you can see 1 painting of some of...
Teach Yourself to Paint: The Van Gogh Method
I did an video blog about Van Gogh. He was a self-taught painter. He followed steps to master his craft. He started with paper and pencil. In fact, the bulk of his artworks are pencil drawings. Once he mastered pencil, he started painting. He used first cheap colors. He was trying to translate his drawing skills to paintings. His next step was to master color. He did still life of flowers to learn how to work with colors. Flowers used to be popular in his day. Since he was an unproven artist, he taught himself to paint flowers and...
Kissing Painting Reference
I did a new podcast. The theme was kissing paintings. Kissing in western art was limited to religious subjects. It was just the Virgin kissing her son or Juda kissing Jesus. Kissing in a romantic sense was taboo. As the Catholic church went out of fashion, kissing became more prominent. This was truer when the Neoclassical period started. Once we got to the modern days, kissing was no longer taboo. Painting kisses was socially accepted and even encouraged. You can see the blog in my Artsy Sister Channel. Please give a like and subscribe.