William Christenberry: A New Respect For Photography

Benjamin West was truly a remarkable artist who required no formal art education to learn how to

I feel that his work is very creative and innovative. He takes everyday occurrences that people overlook and turn them into something that cannot be ignored. His works of art make people see the world in a different way. They allow people to step into his mind and see what he is thinking. I believe he has good range in his work, simple to complex. He can create spaces that evoke feelings a peacefulness and calmness to places that disorientate the viewers. I have never thought of using light in the way does. He is able to explore mediums that are unique and unconventional. The work he does is inspiring. His art makes me want to explore the world of light; or the world of sound or color or some other concept. He makes me want to create something truly unique and

Andrew had quite a vivid memory and a fantastic imagination that led to a great fascination for art. His father recognized an obvious raw talent that had to be nurtured. While his father was teaching him the basics of traditional academic drawing Andrew began painting watercolor studies of the rocky coast and the sea in Port Clyde Maine.

He was moved multiple times and attended many middle schools. His academic record wasn’t so good and neither was his college experience because he left only after a year. As a child he painted, collected postcards and took pictures of his friends and family with a small Kodak. After he quit college he moved to New york City and worked at the New York Public Library. He went to Paris to try and get better on his French but came back after a year to New York to become a writer. He also started taking pictures as well.

From a young age, he chose to study under George Bridgeman and Thomas Fogarty who were considered to be more traditional, and looked up to artists such as Rembrandt and Brughel. He did intense research for his paintings, and created backgrounds for his characters and props for his settings. Norman Rockwell had an extensive process to his work, and created detailed sketches from live models or photographs before he would begin to paint. In the early thirties, he did go to Paris and attempt dynamic symmetry, but quickly went back to his traditional way of painting. Alden Hatch states that Rockwell “brings to his painting not only great talent, but superb technique and artistic knowledge, bought by years of training and unceasing study.” (Hatch/Rockwell, 9) Ben Sonder states in The Legacy of Norman Rockwell that Rockwell “had remarkable eye for detail, was rigorous in his authenticity in rendering people and things, and possessed the academic trying and technical skills of a fine artist.” (Sonder, 7) Norman Rockwell’s work, created with such idealized naturalism, captured the lives and stories of the American people and emotionally connected with his

I believe I was more drawn to why this artist did this type of art and why it’s considered art. At first look, his paintings look like a child or children had a blast with paint. No rhythm or method and the lines and brush strokes going to nowhere. Then I really started looking his paintings in the last few years of his life. He was bolder with his colors. I think he felt free and no so repressed, not lead to have to produce art. Even though in the movie it showed he battled alcohol and turned to art as a released but he was reined in by an agent, and then heavily criticized by the art world. When he appeared to be drinking again he painted without restraint. His paintings at first seemed to be rejected because they or he was not understood as an artist and at the time the world of art of Regionalism and Social Realism was what artists were viewing and creating. Jackson Pollack was living during World War II, in his earlier paintings he makes reference to this war. And later there was the Great depression and he had mother son issues from his childhood. I think he embraced the changes and went with what he felt he needed to express and so he became a known artist as a new Abstract Expressionist. I believe once he explained where the paintings came from is when the art world embraced his creations. These creations came right in the mist of World War II and into the aftermath and a new error of the fabulous fifties, when the

In his education department , Longfellow attend Portland in his early years. After graduating from his early years, he later went on to attend Bowdoin College. A position later came up for a teaching job at Harvard. This was a big opportunity but the college wanted Longfellow to have different languages to speak. ( Source 1)

His style of painting combined many pictorial depth cues while maintaining realism throughout the relatively few paintings he produced. Then there is the Prussian artist, Albert Bierstadt, who was born

Mark divides his time between Brookline and Truro, Massachusetts and has studied at the New England School of Photography, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Griffin Museum of Photography, Photographic Resource Center, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. He has degrees from Cornell University and M.I.T.

emotional focus on nature. He changed the face of landscape paintings, by giving them significant

William Morris led the Arts and Crafts movement in the 1800’s. Some of his work, like this one pictured to the left, demonstrates the beauty of the simplicity in his work. William Morris was an artist, designer, printer, typographer, bookbinder, craftsman, poet, writer and champion of socialist ideals. He believed that a designer should have a working knowledge of any media that he used and as a result he spent a lot of time teaching himself a wide variety of techniques. He also founded the Kelmscott Press which published high quality hand bound books and was very influential in the revival of the private press.

Jenny Uglow’s masterpiece chronicles the life of William Hogarth, one of the greatest illustrators in history. The book leads the reader on a journey of Hogarth’s birth, early life, entry into art and his eventual maturity as an artist. It explains that William Hogarth’s birth took place in the United Kingdom in November of the year 1697. He was the son of an uneventful writer and schoolmaster from Westmoreland. In the early years of his adulthood, William Hogarth was an apprentice of a goldsmith. By the year 1710 William began producing his engraved projects (Uglow 23). Later on in his life, William Hogarth began oil painting where he began by painting small portraits groups named ‘conversation prices’. Motivated by the previous projects, William Hogarth proceeded with more projects that contained satirical paintings. The paintings mocked modern customs inspired by early Italian prints. The

One of his famous works are done by the art style Impressionist. When he first saw this type of art, he was inspired by the color and light of it. He began studying this type of art with people that also enjoyed this art. Van Gogh was very passionate about his artwork, and tended to argue with his friends about their work.

Being very interested with this work and he would take a series of photographs selected carefully and arranging them in the right way, Hockney was able to change the shapes and the space within

From the start of his career he pushed the limits. Almost being expelled from the London College of Printing when he designed a postage stamp with Queen Elizabeth’s head turned sideways. Growing up in Southgate, North London he said, “I was apparently drawing before I was walking, and that is something that has stayed with me ever since”. From an early age his ambition was to be an artist and chose to enroll on a Fine Art foundation course at Hornsey College of Art in 1975.