Sunshine Amos
I’m Sunshine Happiness Amos. I’m from Nigeria west Africa but currently lives in Togo another west African country which is a small beautiful tropical heaven. I also lived some of my childhood in Ghana, Accra. I grew up in a lot of rich west African culture, lifestyle and foods. I’m a self- thought artist from a draftsman to an impressionist and watercolor painter.
As an African I thought I should be painting African works of art. After I discovered my dream as a painter. I visited a lot of art galleries and saw African paintings which were mostly figurative of the people, lifestyle and culture. I used five years of my art journey trying to be an African artist painting African art. No matter what I did I was failing. I couldn’t paint figurative properly and I was bad at portrait after learning how to do them for years. I started to reach out to some established Nigerian Artist for help to point me in the right direction. They were happy to help but I wasn’t improving. Until an Art curator from an Art gallery asked to see my portfolio. Then he said to me.
” Sunshine, I can’t feel your Art. It’s like you’re trying to be like somebody. Please don’t do that. There are no Police in the Art World. Do whatever you want. Create whatever you want. You have something that will touch the lives of people through your art. But you haven’t found it yet.”
Then I asked him with frustration. “But how will I know?”
Then he said ” When you know you know. With your artistic flare and passion. I guess maybe three years from now”
This was in 2017. I didn’t like what he said. I was desperate. I just wanted him to put my paintings in his gallery. But what do I know. I went home crying.
Three years later in 2020 during the world COVID 19 lockdown. I found my voice in Art and my calling. The funniest thing is that it has been there all along. My love for gardens and flowers. European Antiques and Dutch style still life paintings. I started with painting gardens I found from garden photographers, gardeners and garden home owners from Europe and America. Every painting I made made me feel happy and accomplished. I felt I created a paradise with my paint brush. The feeling was overwhelming. I started posting it on Facebook and Instagram and people were engaging with it happily and telling me how it touches their hearts. This is it! My calling.
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Biography
I’m Sunshine Happiness Amos. I’m from Nigeria west Africa but currently lives in Togo another west African country which is a small beautiful tropical heaven. I also lived some of my childhood in Ghana, Accra. I grew up in a lot of rich west African culture, lifestyle and foods. I’m a self- thought artist from a draftsman to an impressionist and watercolor painter.
As an African I thought I should be painting African works of art. After I discovered my dream as a painter. I visited a lot of art galleries and saw African paintings which were mostly figurative of the people, lifestyle and culture. I used five years of my art journey trying to be an African artist painting African art. No matter what I did I was failing. I couldn’t paint figurative properly and I was bad at portrait after learning how to do them for years. I started to reach out to some established Nigerian Artist for help to point me in the right direction. They were happy to help but I wasn’t improving. Until an Art curator from an Art gallery asked to see my portfolio. Then he said to me.
” Sunshine, I can’t feel your Art. It’s like you’re trying to be like somebody. Please don’t do that. There are no Police in the Art World. Do whatever you want. Create whatever you want. You have something that will touch the lives of people through your art. But you haven’t found it yet.”
Then I asked him with frustration. “But how will I know?”
Then he said ” When you know you know. With your artistic flare and passion. I guess maybe three years from now”
This was in 2017. I didn’t like what he said. I was desperate. I just wanted him to put my paintings in his gallery. But what do I know. I went home crying.
Three years later in 2020 during the world COVID 19 lockdown. I found my voice in Art and my calling. The funniest thing is that it has been there all along. My love for gardens and flowers. European Antiques and Dutch style still life paintings. I started with painting gardens I found from garden photographers, gardeners and garden home owners from Europe and America. Every painting I made made me feel happy and accomplished. I felt I created a paradise with my paint brush. The feeling was overwhelming. I started posting it on Facebook and Instagram and people were engaging with it happily and telling me how it touches their hearts. This is it! My calling.
- Nationality: NIGERIA
- Date of birth : 1994
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary Nigerian Artists
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A Day In My Life as an Artist Blog - Still life painting
Garden In A Vase Number 6
Watercolor Still life painting 16×24 inches.
Garden In A Vase Number 6 is finally done. It 's the first big size painting in the collection. It took me three days to finish with a lot of patience, observation and color touch-up. The painting is a mixed-media of watercolors for the flowers, and still life objects. And the greenery scenery is painted with acrylics. This painting is a realistic impressionism painting. I used both techniques were my artistic mind wants to apply it. The greenery scene behind the vase of flowers is fully the work of impressionism with brush strokes in dark green to make the vibrant flowers of the vase to shine. The painting is like an early morning day in spring. But it's simply the beauty of tranquility and rest. A calmness of the mind and of the heart.
Painting In Progress
Bit by bit the vision begins to come alive. I had to work slowly and gently because I was working a lot with contrast and lots of color mixing.
Photo of A Food.
Sandwich helps my creative energy a lot. During this painting Tuna and egg sandwich was the energy food that keeps me active.
ARTIST IN STUDIO
Art books I Read In A Week
About The Book:
Perhaps best known as the long-suffering wife of Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner is now, finally, being recognized as one of the 20th century’s modernist masters. In Lee Krasner, author Gail Levin gives us an engrossing biography of the painter—so memorably portrayed in the movie Pollack by actor Marcia Gay Harden, who won an Academy Award for her performance—a firebrand and trailblazer for women’s rights as well as an exceptional artist who led a truly fascinating life.
ABOUT The Book
best book of the year from New York Public Library, NPR, the Financial Times, Book Riot, and the Sunday Times (London).
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.
Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They’re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits, keeping a watchful eye on the two million square foot treasure house. Caught up in his glamorous fledgling career at The New Yorker, Patrick Bringley never thought he’d be one of them. Then his older brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer and he found himself needing to escape the mundane clamor of daily life. So he quit The New Yorker and sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew.
To his surprise and the reader’s delight, this temporary refuge becomes Bringley’s home away from home for a decade. We follow him as he guards delicate treasures from Egypt to Rome, strolls the labyrinths beneath the galleries, wears out nine pairs of company shoes, and marvels at the beautiful works in his care. Bringley enters the museum as a ghost, silent and almost invisible, but soon finds his voice and his tribe: the artworks and their creators and the lively subculture of museum guards—a gorgeous mosaic of artists, musicians, blue-collar stalwarts, immigrants, cutups, and dreamers. As his bonds with his colleagues and the art grow, he comes to understand how fortunate he is to be walled off in this little world, and how much it resembles the best aspects of the larger world to which he gradually, gratefully returns.
In the tradition of classic workplace memoirs like Lab Girl and Working Stiff, All The Beauty in the World is a surprising, inspiring portrait of a great museum, its hidden treasures, and the people who make it tick, by one of its most intimate observers.
ABOUT The Book
Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times).
Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting -- not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come.
Gutsy and indomitable, Lee Krasner was a hell-raising leader among artists long before she became part of the modern art world's first celebrity couple by marrying Jackson Pollock. Elaine de Kooning, whose brilliant mind and peerless charm made her the emotional center of the New York School, used her work and words to build a bridge between the avant-garde and a public that scorned abstract art as a hoax. Grace Hartigan fearlessly abandoned life as a New Jersey housewife and mother to achieve stardom as one of the boldest painters of her generation. Joan Mitchell, whose notoriously tough exterior shielded a vulnerable artist within, escaped a privileged but emotionally damaging Chicago childhood to translate her fierce vision into magnificent canvases. And Helen Frankenthaler, the beautiful daughter of a prominent New York family, chose the difficult path of the creative life.
Her gamble paid off: At twenty-three she created a work so original it launched a new school of painting. These women changed American art and society, tearing up the prevailing social code and replacing it with a doctrine of liberation. In Ninth Street Women, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel tells a remarkable and inspiring story of the power of art and artists in shaping not just postwar America but the future.
ABOUT The Book
How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we understand about God and humanity by looking at the lives of artists?
Striving for beauty, art also reveals what is broken. It presents us with the tremendous struggles and longings common to the human experience. And it says a lot about our Creator too. Great works of art can speak to the soul in a unique way.
Rembrandt Is in the Wind is an invitation to discover some of the world's most celebrated artists and works and how each of them illuminates something about God, people, and the purpose of life. Part art history, part biblical study, part philosophy, and part analysis of the human experience, this book is nonetheless all story.
From Michelangelo to Vincent van Gogh to Edward Hopper, the lives of the artists in this book illustrate the struggle of living in this world and point to the beauty of the redemption available to us in Christ. Each story is different. Some conclude with resounding triumph while others end in struggle. But all of them raise important questions about humanity's hunger and capacity for glory, and all of them teach us to love and see beauty.
"The artists featured in these pages—artists who devoted their lives and work to what is good, true, and beautiful—remind us that we can, and should, do the same." —Karen Swallow Prior, author of On Reading Well.
ABOUT The Book:
A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world—and Picasso the most famous artist alive—in the shadow of World War II
“[Eakin] has mastered this material. . . . The book soars.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vanity Fair, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker
In January 1939, Pablo Picasso was renowned in Europe but disdained by many in the United States. One year later, Americans across the country were clamoring to see his art. How did the controversial leader of the Paris avant-garde break through to the heart of American culture?
The answer begins a generation earlier, when a renegade Irish American lawyer named John Quinn set out to build the greatest collection of Picassos in existence. His dream of a museum to house them died with him, until it was rediscovered by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., a cultural visionary who, at the age of twenty-seven, became the director of New York’s new Museum of Modern Art.
Barr and Quinn’s shared goal would be thwarted in the years to come—by popular hostility, by the Depression, by Parisian intrigues, and by Picasso himself. It would take Hitler’s campaign against Jews and modern art, and Barr’s fraught alliance with Paul Rosenberg, Picasso’s persecuted dealer, to get Picasso’s most important paintings out of Europe. Mounted in the shadow of war, the groundbreaking exhibition Picasso: Forty Years of His Art would launch Picasso in America, define MoMA as we know it, and shift the focus of the art world from Paris to New York.
Picasso’s War is the never-before-told story about how a single exhibition, a decade in the making, irrevocably changed American taste, and in doing so saved dozens of the twentieth century’s most enduring artworks from the Nazis. Through a deft combination of new scholarship and vivid storytelling, Hugh Eakin shows how two men and their obsession with Picasso changed the art world forever.
The Valley of RoseBud Garden Collection Art Blog
The First painting in the Valley of RoseBud Garden Collection. I got the title of the collection from a book I read about a town called RoseBud. In my imagination I pictured a valley of flower field of rEd rose gardens and bushes. So, this is the first painting of the collection and the work in progress.
IThe finished work of the first painting. Size- 30×24 inches. Medium- Acrylic. Painting hanging on the wall in my Art Studio.
. ABOUT The Painting
In the rich world of Reds and Green I'm creating a collection of Red rose garden in different painting format. The first painting of this collocation is an expressionism type of Art. I created an illusion of a rose garden bush by imitating the shapes of a rose by drawing it halfway and using painting brush strokes. The shapes of the leaves were painted with brush strokes and the vines with the tip of my round brush. I had no explanation while painting this Art piece. It comes out looking like an abstract and an impressionism painting after the finished touches were added. So, I called it a painting of expression.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Finishing up the first half of the painting on the second day. I was doing some brush work on the dept of the painting with Ultramarine, Sap green and a tiny little bit of black.
Halfway through the painting on the second day. It starting to look like a Rose flower bush in an impressionism way.
Quotes About Art by Famous Visual Artists - The Artist Feeling
I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality. —Frida Kahlo
Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. —Pablo Picasso
Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in this phrase: To create a harmony. —Gino Severini
I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. —Georgia O’Keeffe
The Fantasy Novel That Pique my Creative mind to paint 🎨
This story got me into fantasy after many years. As a painter it spark my imagination and gives me a good creative vibe while I take a break from painting.
The story is very intriguing. A human powerless Stich girl who works in a dressmaker shop got abducted by a Fae Lord and was sent to his kingdom to be his bride. Eloras the Fae Lord is such a sweetheart. I thought he will be a overbearing and insufferable creature. But he was very attentive towards Valera. The Fae kingdom was got me interested in the story. The description of the realm and happenings of the kingdom was so well written. I loved the nymph lady who was a Lady's maid assigned to look after Valera. Her grumpy attitude makes me laugh. And she is green with two antenna and big huge eyes and she hates the little mischievous goblins with passion another characters I so much love in the story. Anytime they show up in the story I get excited and always laugh. Valera's character is what I admire and hate at the same time. She's very creative and smart. She's also embraces her weakness and tries to cope with her situation. But at times she can really be a whining bitch. Sometimes I feel she's intentionally finding reason to hate on Eloras when it's not necessary. How dare she betray him at the end! I was so angry with her. Like _ Why, did you do that?
A little bit of Spoiler: What pique my interest the most is that the beautiful looking angels are the demons and the Faes with their horns are the good guys. And.... Valera was tripping. Not her fault. She's just human. Who wouldn't fall for Beautiful looking Angels a.k.a demons.
I applaud the book for the great character development.
Impressionist Painter Art History - Suzanne Valadon
Suzanne Valadon (French, 1865–1938) was a painter and artists’ model, known as one of the most successful female artists of her generation and the mother of French artist Maurice Utrillo. As the daughter of an unmarried maid, Valadon had a rather solitary childhood. She lived in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris, where she began working as a model for artists who patronized the cabaret called the Lapin Agile, such as Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Jean-Louis Forain. Valadon had taught herself to draw around the age of nine. Fellow artists, including Renoir, Edgar Degas, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, responded encouragingly to Valadon’s work. In 1896, her marriage to Paul Mousis enabled Valadon to leave behind her career as an artist’s model, and by 1909, she was painting and working as a full-time artist. Her first solo exhibition took place in 1911, and she reached the height of her celebrity and success during the 1920s. Valadon frequently painted reclining figures in ornately decorated interiors, as in Blue Room (1923). Valadon’s works are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.
Timeline
In 1865 in Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France, Marie-Clémentine Valadon was born. Her mother was an unmarried laundress and her father was probably a young man who worked at the nearby mill and was killed soon after Marie-Clémentine’s birth. Madeleine, her mother, moved herself and her baby to Montmartre to escape the scandal. There Madeleine worked as a char-woman, and Marie-Clémentine grew up very much on her own. While in her early teens, she was apprenticed to a dressmaker in Paris, and soon after she joined an acrobatics group. She was happy there, but following a fall that nearly killed her, she had to give up performing with the group. At the tender age of 15 she went to the Place Pigalle, where a neighbour had led her, in order to become an artist’s model. The established artist, Puvis de Chavannes, immediately spotted her - he was one of the many Montmartre artists who went there to take their pick of scores of wretched men, women and children who gathered every Sunday hoping to become models. The 56 year old artist was understandably attracted to the young girl, she was pre-maturely voluptuous, with “cognac-coloured” hair, stunning blue eyes and an “infectious” sense of fun. Puvis used her both as the model for his ‘neo-classical’ heroines and as his lover, but when he saw some of her early drawings, he pronounced “you are a model, not an artist!” His lecherous behaviour was well known throughout Montmartre and, as a wealthy man, he could buy anyone of the desperate ‘models’ at any price. This ‘relationship’ between model and artist was a condition of life in Montmartre at that time.
After being dismissed by Chavannes, Valadon next modelled for Renoir, for whom she portrayed the beautiful innocent in some of his most notable works, like the Dance at Bougival of 1883 and The Bathers. Valadon liked Renoir no better than Puvis, describing him as “all brushes and no heart,” but she still carried on an affair with him. She became pregnant that year aged 17 and although Renoir was a suspect, there were many others, including an unknown dilletante and Bohemian named Boissy. The baby was called Maurice Valadon, but later became known as Maurice Utrillo.
Valadon began to model for Toulouse-Lautrec after the birth of Maurice. He was different; kinder than the others had been to her, he saw her drawings and encouraged her to do more. He also told her that she must change her name from Marie-Clémentine to Suzanne, a name that could be respected and remembered.
In 1893 she succeeded in meeting and impressing Degas. On the advice of Lautrec, she took her drawings and showed them to the reclusive genius. It is said that Degas took one look at her drawings of little Maurice and said, “you are one of us!” He then bought 17 of these drawings and hung them among his Cézannes, Gauguins and Van Goghs.
Suzanne Valadon had a complicated life… Her son also became a brilliant painter - unfortunately, he was also one of Montmartre’s most notorious drunkards. After a long and tumultuous relationship, Valadon married Paul Mousis, a well-to-do lawyer with many Montmartre connections. It was not to last, and when she was 44, Maurice introduced her to his friend André Utter, another aspiring painter. He was 23 and despite the difference in age, they formed a relationship that would cause her great happiness and sorrow for the rest of her life. Maurice, too, would plague her, he was constantly in and out of institutions for mental illness and more often, drunkenness. Through all of this we still get a sense of Suzanne’s spirit. Though she was not the best of mothers, she was a truly gifted artist. Her paintings are brutally honest, they force us to react to their boldness and their unschooled intensity. She still cannot be classified in one group, or as the follower of any particular artist; she taught herself and thereby formed a style all her own.
Suzanne Valadon did not lead an easy life and only now is she gaining the respect that she so richly deserves as one of the great painters of the twentieth century. Sadly, her son’s life and reputation has, in many ways, overshadowed her own, yet from what we have come to learn of her personality, she probably would not begrudge him even that. Her work is exhibited in many of the finest museums and galleries throughout the world.
These are my Five Favorite Paintings of Suzanne Valadon
This is my favorite of all her paintings. Her impressionism style is very unique and it's inspires me as another impressionist female Artist.
If you like to read books about Art and Biographies. I will recommend a good Bio- fiction book about Suzanne Valadon. It's called Renoir's Dancer.
Modernist Art Movements
The turn of the 20th century was a time rife with change, chiefly in the way in which people began to perceive civilization as a whole and its overall goal. The outbreak of World War I, or the supposed War to End All Wars, and the unprecedented devastation that ensued challenged the foundations of many cultures’ belief systems, which led to a great deal of experimentation and exploration by artists with morality and in defining what exactly Art should be and do for a culture. What followed from this was a litany of artistic movements that strived to find their places in an ever-changing world.
Post-Impressionism
Georges Seurat: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884, oil on canvas by Georges Seurat, 1884–86; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Often thought of as a necessitous precursor to the plentiful art movements formed under the Modernist umbrella, Post-Impressionism had its start in the waning years of the 19th century. It was made famous by the unforgettable works of Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, and others, as they focused on extending the limitations of the movement’s predecessor, Impressionism, by investigating techniques that would allow them to gain a purer form of expression, while, in most cases, retaining Impressionism’s use of bright and fantastic colors displayed with short brushstrokes. Post-Impressionists, unlike many members of other art movements, mainly composed their artworks independently of others, thus, allowing them to experiment in varying directions, from intensified Impressionism, as characterized by van Gogh, to pointillism, as seen in Seurat’s most famous work Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–86).
Fauvism
This famous avant-garde movement is credited with being one of the first of its kind to prosper at the start of the 20th century. Pioneered by Henri Matisse, Fauvism owed a significant debt to Impressionism, as it exhibited vibrant colors in order to capture landscapes and still-lifes. However, it became its own movement as Fauvists, such as Matisse, instilled a heightened sense of emotionalism into their paintings, often utilizing crude and blatant brushstrokes and vivid colors straight from their tubes that at first appalled audiences. It was the overly expressiveness of these raw and basic techniques that led art critic Louis Vauxcelles to christen such painters fauves (“wild beasts”). Other notable Fauvists include André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Georges Braque, the latter evolving from the unclad emotionalism of Fauvism to create the more structured and logical focuses of Cubism, which is viewed as being a direct descendent of Fauvism.
Cubism
Possibly the best-known art movement of the Modernist era, Cubism has come to be associated with one name in particular, Pablo Picasso. However, it should be duly noted that Georges Braque was also a leader of the movement and that he and Picasso worked so well off of one another that, at the height of Cubism’s reign, their paintings are practically indistinguishable from one another. It’s often noted that Cubism was ushered in a definitive movement with the revelation of Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), which shows nude women in a fractured perspective and which demonstrates a significant African influence. However, the movement did not receive its name until 1908, when, art critic Louis Vauxcelles (again!) depicted Braque’s House at L’Estaque as being fashioned from cubes. The central aims of Cubists were to discard the conventions of the past to merely mimic nature and to start in a new vein to highlight the flat dimensionality of the canvas. This effect was achieved through the use of various conflicting vantage points the paint pictures of common objects such as musical instruments, pitchers, bottles, and the human figure. As they progressed in their work, Braque and Picasso adopted the use of a monochromatic scale to emphasize their focus on the inherent structure of their works. Though commonly associated with painting, Cubism had lasting effects on many sculptors and architects of the time.
Futurism
Perhaps one of the most controversial movements of the Modernist era was Futurism, which, at a cursory glance, likened humans to machines and vice versa in order to embrace change, speed, and innovation in society while discarding artistic and cultural forms and traditions of the past. However, at the center of the Futurist platform was an endorsement of war and misogyny. Futurism—coined in a 1909 manifesto by Filippo Marinetti—was not limited to just one art form, but in fact was embraced by sculptors, architects, painters, and writers. Paintings were typically of automobiles, trains, animals, dancers, and large crowds; and painters borrowed the fragmented and intersecting planes from Cubism in combination with the vibrant and expressive colors of Fauvism in order to glorify the virtues of speed and dynamic movement. Writers focused on ridding their poetry of what they saw as unnecessary elements such as adjectives and adverbs so that the emphasis could rest on the action of infinitive verbs. This technique in conjunction with the integration of mathematical symbols allowed them to make more declarative statements with a great sense of audacity. Although originally ardent in their affirmation of the virtues of war, the Futurists lost steam as the devastation of WWI became realized.
Vorticism
A specifically English artistic movement, since its mouthpiece was the famed London-based magazine Blast, Vorticism followed in the same vein as Futurism in that it relished in the innovative advances of the machine age and embraced the possible virtues of dynamic change that were to follow. It was founded right before the start of WWI by the celebrated painter Wyndham Lewis and the ubiquitous poet of the Modernist period Ezra Pound. However, whereas the Futurists originated in France and Italy and then sprawled out over the continent to Russia, Vorticism remained local in London. Vorticists prided themselves on being independent of similar movements. In their literature, they utilized bare-bones vocabulary that resonated in likeness to the mechanical forms found in English shipyards and factories, and, in their writings as well as their paintings, Vorticists espoused abstraction as the only way to sever ties with the dominant and suffocating Victorian past so that they could advance to a new era. However, Vorticism, like Futurism, struggled to cope with the incomprehensible destruction during WWI that was a result of the new machines which they so highly praised. As WWI came to an end and valued Vorticists, namely T.E. Hulme and Gaudler-Brzeska, died in action, Vorticism shriveled to a small few by the beginning of the 1920s.
Surrealism
As one of the most famous art movements of the Modernist era, thanks mainly to the indelible work The Persistence of Memory (1931) by Salvador Dalí, Surrealism has come to be remembered for its production of visceral, eye-grabbing and aesthetic images. Leaping off from the absurdist inclinations of the Dadaists and the psychoanalytical writings of Sigmund Freud, André Breton, a well-known poet and critic of his time, published “The Surrealist Manifesto” in 1924, in which he declared the group’s intention to unite consciousness with unconsciousness so that the realms of dream and fancy could merge with everyday reality in an “absolute reality, a surreality.” Although they were best-remembered for the work of their painters—such as Jean Arp, Max Ernst, and André Masson—Surrealists worked with a variety of mediums, including poetry, literature, sculpture, and the then-new medium of film. Because Breton was militant in the adherence to his manifesto by the members of the movement, many members splintered off into new art forms, though still incorporating techniques and motifs of Surrealism.
Art Stories Fun Facts : VanGough
Munch had sensed “The Scream” as he walked down along a path one evening
Back story- Edward Munch’s “The Scream” is the name given to describe each of four versions created by the Expressionist artist. In one of the entries in his diary dated Nice 22 January 1892, Munch described the inspiration behind the art. He wrote, “One evening I was walking along a path, the city was on one side and the fjord below. I felt tired and ill. I stopped and looked out over the fjord—the sun was setting, and the clouds turning blood red. I sensed a scream passing through nature; it seemed to me that I heard the scream. I painted this picture, painted the clouds as actual blood. The color shrieked. This became The Scream.”
Interesting facts- a) While each of the three versions of “The Scream” (two painted versions and one pastel version) grace the walls of three renowned museums, the fourth pastel version was sold at Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art auction on 2 May 2012 to a financier Leon Blac for a staggering $119,922,600, thus becoming one of the most expensive paintings in the history of art.
Letter Of A Fan
Finished work of an impressionism painting
Letter of A Fan by An Art Collector.
Sunshine Amos your work reflects you sunny and cheerful with a taste of delightful reflection into the women you are…For the simple long forgotten pleasure in not saving the beauty of everything around actually living it.This is you and your work reflects your authentic self.I truly Love your work and look forward to seeing your new pieces. It stirs my soul and brings my Soul to the Joy of being me.I could only wish to have the Privilege of owning one of your pieces in the future.I will to a big one of my favorite so that when I want to and whenever I feel like it I can sit and stare at it all day and Dream my owns thoughts away.This is how I describe you and your work .The way it makes me feel.Stay Your Authentic self never second guess yourself. With a Artists eye and heart Love your friend and biggest fan Colleen🙋🏻♀️
The New Found Skill to A Good Drawing
It's Called The Snail Move
. Working Process of a Drawing. My magic pencil
During my time creating this still life collection called Garden in a Vase. Which means flowers in a vase in a garden surrounding which is inspired by Country life, Cottage core and flower nature. But drawing the whole composition was sometimes challenging. I was slow and I use my eraser a lot. Something wasn't working. And I don't know what it was. I've been good at drawing. If I didn't make a perfect drawing I can't paint a good watercolor still life. I do end up making a good drawing but not without the use of my eraser and sluggishness. Until my last painting. The Garden In A Vase collection No.6.I was so interested in the vase shape and design that I immersed myself in the drawing. I was drawing with a very slow and precise movement. Which I later called the Snail Move. It made me to have a keen eye on shapes and composition. I also finished the drawing faster and make a beautiful drawing.
Drawing a vase using the Snail Move 🐌
Diary of My New Painting
Garden In A Vase
Art In Studio
This painting is like a memory capsule of spring. Among the paintings I have done so far this is the busiest of them. It has a whole garden in it and the Watercolor flowers in a beautiful ceramic vase.
The painting took me three days. A lot of what I did with the painting was unplanned and unexpected. I found myself taking a step back to study it very often. After I painted the flowers with watercolors in an impressionist style and a little bit of realism. I did the old skool impressionism techniques for the garden part. After all I'm a garden impressionist painter first and foremost. I used watercolor soluble acrylics for the garden and some gouache. The painting looked very different because I end up creating a mixed - media painting. That is not what I had in mind but that was the outcome. It looks very garden - ish instead of a Still Life flower in a vase art I was trying to do. I think it looks interesting and very creative.
The Best White Roses Watercolor painting from my Garden In A Vase collection.
The best white rose flower painting with watercolors from my Still life series.
Book I Read During My Painting week. (A Great Recommendation)
About The Book
Book By Author Renee Rosen.
"When my girls wake up in the middle of the night with these thought plaguing them, I want them to reach for their issue of Cosmo. When our girls read Cosmo, I want them to feel uplifted and optimistic about their futures." _ Helen Gurley Brown.
ABOUT The Novel
It’s 1965 and Cosmopolitan magazine’s brazen new editor in chief—Helen Gurley Brown—shocks America and saves a dying publication by daring to talk to women about all things off-limits...
New York City is filled with opportunities for single girls like Alice Weiss, who leaves her small Midwestern town to chase her big-city dreams and unexpectedly lands a job working for the first female editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown.
For Alice, who wants to be a photographer, it seems like the perfect foot in the door, but nothing could have prepared her for the world she enters. Editors and writers resign on the spot, refusing to work for the woman who wrote the scandalous bestseller Sex and the Single Girl, and confidential memos, article ideas, and cover designs keep finding their way into the wrong hands. When someone tries to pull Alice into a scheme to sabotage her boss, she is more determined than ever to help Helen succeed. While pressure mounts at the magazine, Alice struggles not to lose sight of her own dreams as she’s swept up into a glamorous world of five-star dinners, lavish parties, and men who are certainly no good. Because if Helen Gurley Brown has taught her anything, it’s that a woman can demand to have it all.
REVIEW
Praise for Park Avenue Summer
“A delightful and empowering read.”—PopSugar
My Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
What I love most about the story is the four men of Hearst always threatening and sabotaging Helen's plan to give Cosmopolitan magazine a sexy makeover. Sometimes I would feel bad for her or I would laugh at the way she wears a poker face pretending to be strong but when they leave her office she will start crying. If there was an unpleasant encounter with the Hearst men, I will wonder. " Is she going to cry again?"
Great Book by Renee Rosen. 🥰💗💕💖