Ford Smith : Art Gallery

A bit about the Author: Todd Smith teaches at Liberty University and directs the art studio for the school. He oversees the studio art groups, the art galleries on North campus along with the managing the Graphic Design program at the University. Todd Smith’s book does a great job of stating many facts about art and the creation of art within the church. His book takes us back to the 18th century art and then brings us up to today’s modern art. Showing how art has changed throughout the course of history. I think he did a great job showing the

Secondly, the light and colors help to enhance the piece. Due to the oil painting,

The Carleton University Art Gallery’s current exhibition We Are Continually Exposed to the Flashbulb of Death: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg (1953-1996), is a linear timeline of the lives, romances, and works of the American Beat generation. The exhibition, curated by Barbara Fischer and John Shoesmith, is a survey of Allen Ginsberg’s photographs, which capture the freedom, artistic creations, and the open sexuality of this group. The organization of the exhibit, along with the added captions below each photograph, create a narrative of a past generation, both capturing and reflecting on an era.

It must have been 13 years or so since I have been to the art museum, back in elementary school, on a one of a kind field trip. 13 years is way too long to have been away from the art museum, as my experience this year reminded me that. It was a beautiful, sunny October day, although it felt like July, and it was an even better day to talk a walk through the vast, mesmerizing pieces of art that the museum has to offer. The North Carolina Museum of Art provides an abundance of artwork from various time periods, cultures, and one can find art anywhere from Egyptian, to classical, to modern and contemporary art. The artwork that the museum provides not only displays an abundance of artwork, but

One of the first artist I’ve seen at the Georgia Museum of Art was Lamar Dodd. One of the painting is called “self-portrait” painted in the year 1936 and another called “Copper Hill” painted in the year 1938. Both of these works have the same color scheme where there is a collection of low-key colors around the space. The main object in the “Copper Hill” and figure in “Self-Portrait” is filled with bright shots of colors. To all appearances Lamar Dodd wanted to have the viewer’s focus more on what was most significant in his paintings. For the painting title “Self-Portrait” Lamar Dodd himself has intense highlights around his face and the side of his body where we would look first. As for the painting title “Copper Hill” was the hill

Norman Rockwell, a 20th century painter was born in 1894. He depicted many scenes of American culture through his perspective until his death in 1978. I chose to do my looking assignment on his oil and graphite on canvas and wood “Framed”. I traveled to Roanoke to see this fine piece of art in the Tubman Art museum. When I first looked at this piece I was very drawn to the texture. By the looks of the picture I took, you cannot really tell that this piece is textured. This piece depicts a picture of a man who seems to be a museum worker holding a frame and essentially framing himself in it. In this piece you also see other pieces of art hanging on the wall around him giving him a wide variety of very expressive looks. You see in this painting that Rockwell used a picture inside of a picture to tell the story of the museum worker.

His father was in World War II, a Marine in the Third Marine Division. He fought the Japanese in the Pacific.

The Artist/Gallery I have chosen to write about is Kathy O’Leary and her studio is located at 208 “C” Street in Old Town Eureka. I’ve chosen to write about her because she is a landscape artist who works in oil and travels around either painting on sight or from a photograph that she has taken herself. Firstly, I'll be talking about how she paints, A series she’s currently working on, and a painting I liked the most.

Down in the deep south, a talented Mississippi artist Walter Inglis Anderson was born to George Walter Anderson, a grain broker, and Annette McConnell, an artist, on September 29, 1903 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Annette McConnell, a daughter of a distinguished New Orleans family, attended the Newcomb School of Fine Arts in New Orleans where she studied the ideals of the American Arts and Crafts movement. She was artistic with a passion for ceramics, painting, music, and literature which strongly influenced her three sons (Walter, Peter, and Mac) to draw, paint, and write poetry. Soon after Walter’s birth, the Andersons moved to Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where they created their family business, Shearwater Pottery, which sold decorated pottery, carvings, and creative widgets for tourists.

When I attend the Oklahoma Art Museum this morning, I was completely blown away by the different styles, technique, and artistic abilities that artist have. Art can come in many forms and can involve many different things. From paintings, sculptures, and abstract pieces of the modern world. Along with my visit, I got to experience a new collection of blown glass that was absolute remarkable. As I walked though the museum, it was as I walked though time and got to see how each period’s art changed throughout time. From the different shades of color to the different types of technique that filled the halls of the Oklahoma City Art Museum, each piece was genuine in its own way. I was starstruck as I witnessed Lowell Nesbitt’s Parrot Tulip, Richard Diebenkorn’s Albuquerque, and Dale Chihuly’s blown glass.

The Philbrook Museum of Art is easily the best museum Tulsa has to offer, and since I have been there before I probably wasn’t going into with a fresh mindset. However, I think the additional knowledge of art I learned through the couple of years in between allowed me to appreciate even more of the art there. I went there with Prof. Trotter and most of the class of art appreciation. I don’t think that most people that go there realize that the museum has such a rich history, and some of the art there is exceptional in my opinion. We went there November 6th, it was a sunny Friday, and I was able to get off work so it made the visit even more fun. The museum was located in the heart of one of richest neighborhoods of Tulsa, which makes sense considering the museum was once owned by a wealthy oilman. I went to the Philbrook not only to make sure I was able to write this essay, but because I truly love art throughout history.

The work is very smooth and fluid making it appear much like a photograph. The oil is not built up on top of itself keeping it very two dimensional. The colors vary between dark and light throughout the painting. In the top right corner, the sun, outside the painting, shining down, aluminates the castle and also the lone tree at the bottom left corner. Besides the back cliff, the rest of the painting is in shadow and displayed in a much more melancholy tone. The colors that Cole focuses on, to display the sharp contrast between rock and nature, are mostly dark greens and gold. The striking blue of the river stands out dramatically from the rest of the colors and draws the eye after the initial citing. The grey in the cloud is the only place where I can find that shade of gray in the work, and it sets itself apart from the snow white clouds in the background. The color helps draw the eye immediately to the castle on the hill. My eyes then fallow the flow of the river down to the tree, which is illuminated by a beam of sunlight.

We can also see the use of black shades to create a hole at the bottom part of the rock. With his excellent use of colors, we can identify the good, healthy and green grass from the bad, unhealthy, brown grasses. Looking beyond the main focus of the painting, he uses colors to separate the sky from the land in the background creating a solid form of perspective on the painting. He also uses colors to create water forms as seen behind the young character. Now, for the sky, he uses shades of white to magnificently differentiate the thick clouds from the light ones. He also uses this to create a source to light to the whole area. All these put together creates a splendid, realistic and familiar atmosphere for the viewers to relate with.

Personally, it is easy to associate art scenes with more populated US cities or other countries, but I can sometimes overlook the talent from the Gulf Coast. The experience sparked my interest in seeing art from more local artists. Furthermore, my trip gave me some nostalgia from my elementary art classes. At my elementary school, my art teacher let us work with all sorts of media, and because of that past knowledge, I was able to recognize some of the media used in the art before even reading the description. Seeing the different textures transported me to moments when I used those same tools.

Ingleby Gallery is house of the works of Charles Avery. “A kind of fictional parallel to life here on Earth,” said by Richard Ingleby, the gallery owner. Avery is just getting started on his island. The artwork is very unique I believe that Avery’s work is trying to draw attention to what another universe might have within it.