In celebration of the Metropolitan Museum’s encyclopedic holdings, “Take Five” is a series of posts where artists describe the lessons that any five works in the collection have taught them about their craft or life as an artist.
An exhibition of nine graduates of the Art Students League’s Certificate Program for 2015 opens at Elga Wimmer and Associates on June 17, 2015.
Life drawings, known as académies, served as a conduit for the European academic training nineteenth-century American art students craved. Pam Koob writes about their creation and significance during the Art Students League’s early history.
There is no question that plein air painting is a class of painting unto itself, and we understood early on that it can be more akin to an extreme sport than a creative activity.
“My mind is an evocative jumble of myths, facts, and fictions. I view and articulate my world through narrative.”
I enjoy engaging thoughts of the creative mind, irrespective of the field.
As I thought about which books are most important to me and my development as an artist, it gradually dawned on me that it would not be a reading list.
You’re in a cave, it’s pitch dark, you’re holding a silk thread, and you move one inch at a time forward, because the secret you want is deep inside …
As I thought about which books are most important to me and my development as an artist, it gradually dawned on me that it would not be a reading list.
We carry on conversations with great books over the years, and as we change, the works change with us. A must-have list of ten books for artists.