Title: Mother Africa - Mother of All Humanity
Artist: Margaret BurroughsYear: 2008
Medium: Linoleum Block
Showing posts with label Print. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Print. Show all posts
2.16.2010
Tuesday February 16th, 2010
Title: Woman Bathing
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Year: 1890-1
Medium: Drypoint and Aquatint, printed in color
Since Everyone's Done It...
... I've decided to dedicate any blogs done this week to my modern art history teacher, Moira Roth. She's an incredible woman, with many artistic achievements, and I feel lucky to be a part of her class.
The reason why I've decided to dedicate the blogs to her is because I really feel like she is teaching me something new in every class. I enjoy her lectures, and her passion, her emotions and ultimately her knowledge.
Every class, we are required to write a 5 minute meditation on a work of art that is being projected (usually by a slide) at the front of a relatively dark room. Today the piece was a print by Mary Cassatt (a personal favorite of mine), which will be the first blog after this written piece. After first glance, I recognized the work as one I had seen before, and I was thrilled to write about it. It truly is a print that I love, and so my first sentence was "I absolutely love this print."
Usually, after this meditation, we just turn in the page and that's that, but today was different. Today, she chose several pages at random and read the first sentences. She didn't read the names, but I knew what I wrote, and her reaction was worth watching. When she looked at my page she was almost taken aback in a sort of gleeful fervor, and she clenched her fists with happiness and stated "Oh, I love this..." and then she read my first two sentences, "I absolutely love this print. I love every crinkle in the fabric of her skirt." A personal triumph for me, I must say, because it's not often you get to see the instant reaction to your work by your professor.
Needless to say, I'm enjoying the class more than I thought I would, and I am looking forward to learning about more artists every day.
11.10.2009
Tuesday November 10th, 2009
Artist: Jen Ray
Title: Toro
Year: 2009
Medium: Goache/Ink Illustration
No letters today, I'll stick to that when I can't think of anything else. I really love this print, it's being sold on Etsy for $20, I think it's really beautiful and unique, and it reminds me of early cave art, but not in an elementary fashion.
11.09.2009
11.06.2009
11.01.2009
Sunday November 1st, 2009
Artist: El Lissitzky
This piece is apparently part of the public domain. I don't know what it is for, but I love El Lissitzky.
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