At the League

The Metropolitan Mindset of New Yorker Cartoonist Barbara Shermund

December 15, 2020 0 7601

Shermund’s cartoons are about human nature, relationships, youth and age, and, more often than not, poke fun at the very metropolitan and highbrow people to whom The New Yorker was marketed.

At the League

Quarantined II

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Artists from James Little’s class, “Non-Objective Painting, Color and Design,” forge ahead with their work over ZOOM.

At the League

Painting Is a Way of Life: Robert Philipp’s Legacy

December 14, 2020 0 4126

Robert Philipp was—and this may be a defining characteristic of many League instructors—an iconoclastic traditionalist, well enough versed in the conventions of art to take them as a point of departure.

At the League

A Master Instructor of Artistic Anatomy: George B. Bridgman

October 30, 2020 0 25970

George B. Bridgman was the preeminent instructor of figure drawing in this country during the first half of the twentieth century and is credited with having taught close to 70,000 students, from illustrators to the avant-garde. What makes his lessons so enduring?

Interviews

Artist Snapshot: Marshall Jones

October 27, 2020 0 3842

Art in general isn’t nearly as fun or powerful in this age. You could say there’s a positive side to all the access we have to art, as well as the exposure, as artists, we can get outside of the traditional structures. But I wonder if it’s worth what we gave up.

Art Students League History

How the Art Students League Shaped the Life of Twentieth-Century Artist Marion Greenwood

October 15, 2020 0 5051

Formative experiences with Art Students League instructors shaped the way Marion Greenwood viewed and painted the world around her.

Art Students League History

Meditative Motions

October 14, 2020 0 1864

Chellis Baird found a kindred spirit in the great iconoclastic sculptor Louise Nevelson.

Reviews

In London, a Question of Pedagogy

October 12, 2020 0 2545

An exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art asks, Does great art begin with studying nature, or studying the great art of the past?

Interviews

Artist Snapshot: Sylvie Covey

September 25, 2020 0 3399

For a very long time I thought art was all about esthetics, beauty, grace. I did not look at other dimensions, such as distortions, unbalance, pain, darkness. Now I try to reach both, very much like in nature, there is life and death.

Tips & Advice

Becoming an Artist

September 9, 2020 0 28264

What steps can you take to develop as an artist? Janet A. Cook offers a short guide of thirty-five tips to help get you started and to keep the momentum going.

Interviews

Artist Snapshot: Ronald Sherr

September 8, 2020 0 5419

The most important quality in an artist is need. A need to draw, a need to paint, a need to observe and obsess.

Art Students League History

Fresh Fields

August 26, 2020 0 2089

The question that seems to be posed in this exhibition is whether the Lyme Art Colony’s interest in landscape, light, and color can be enjoyed at face value, or is complicit in whitewashing the area’s history.