I teach a class on abstract art at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City, IN. One of the lessons we do is to create a collage from existing paintings on paper that we have earlier created during the session. /*! elementor – v3.16.0 – 20-09-2023 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image …
History / Motivation I started making small collages in my sketchbooks back in the early 1980’s. In those days, I was cutting up photos from magazines, as well as rejected pieces of my own work. It was a way to discover more about composition and design. My husband at that …
Jean Dubuffet butterfly wings, ink, gouache and paper collage in this week’s Focus On Abstraction meeting (thursdays, 11am CST), as requested by one of the member of the group, we will be discussing extreme uses of technique when creating a painting. Albert Oehlen “More Fire and Ice” (2001), a mixed-media work …
July 16, 2021 (updated July 23, 2021) Published by jayInStudio in our weekly online meeting of artists, this week we discussed two similar artists’ works. Richard Diebenkorn and Frank P Phillips, a contemporary artist. Diebenkorn died in 1993, after a very successful career of painting and teaching. Frank P Phillips …
I’ve admired sillman’s work for a long time. and I’m happy for her success, although of course, I have wished that I was her! an inventive approach to abstraction, while rolling in quite a bit or personal information. there are several very good monographs of her work. the one I …
when the mother of my late partner, john reuter-pacyna, fled germany during WWII, she took only her most valuable belongings. they were limited to two suitcases. amazingly, one of the things she took was a 12-volume set of german encyclopedias attempting to show all the animals that lived on all …
some artists are born within cultures that have specific visual art histories, based on traditions handed down over centuries. asian and Arab artists are particularly notable, since both may employ calligraphy (an honored tradition in both cultures) in work that otherwise feels very abstract. i think the path into abstraction …
