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2019 Challenge
This year I have
challenged myself to
paint 1 painting
per week in the
style of one of the
historical Top 100
artists. I am trying to
use the techniques, medium and colours that they used but the goal is to refrain from copying them. The time restriction of 1 week puts limitations on the oil painting and those artists who produced very detailed works
1 week - 1 artist
Quiet Beauty
Acrylic on Canvas
Week 5 - Mark Rothko (1903-1970)
"The evolution of the work of a painter is a journey in time towards clarity...To achieve this clarity is, inevitable, to be understood."
"clarity - the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer."
Layers
Week 7 - Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
"I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration."
"White is poison to a picture: use it only in highlights."
2009
Week 9 - Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
"What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion."
Kh4
Week 6 - Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."
"I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell."
2049
Week 8 - Francisco de
Goya (1746-1828)
"Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters."
"Always lines, never forms! But where do they find these lines in Nature? For my part I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow."
Bowed but not Broken
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