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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 18 - Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)
“The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”
“Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.”
“I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them”
Rise above it
Week 20 - Hans Holbein(1497-1543)
No quotes
Princess for a day
No Week 5
No quotes
TBD
Week 19 - El Greco (1541 - 1614)
“You must study the Masters but guard the original style that beats within your soul and put to sword those who would try to steal it.”
The Lion will lie down with the Lamb
Week 21 - Jean Francois Millet (1814-1875)
“If you could see how beautiful the forest is! I sometimes slip away there at days end after my work day and I always return overwhelmed. It has such a calm, such a terrible grandeur, to the point that I am surprised that I feel genuinely afraid. I don't know what the trees says amongst themselves, but they say something we don't speak the same language.”
Rural Ontario
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