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Repository 176: Top 11 e-Tools for Your Art Box | Bookmark Now
I’ve just completed an art history lesson for my local 3rd graders. The art history lesson will be accompanied by an exercise. Unlike the massive number of exercises out there, I am hoping a heavy history lesson will inspire them to look at art differently – specifically Monet and Impressionism. What I will deliver to these 8 and 9 year olds will likely give them an edge in understanding that no, in fact, it’s not just a pretty picture, but…
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Repository 45: On Matisse’s Art Genes
I’ve been reading some essays on Henri Matisse lately, and was excited to read his quote, which I whole heartedly agree – as artists we are very much influenced by whom we admire and surround ourselves with – the good, the bad, and the ugly. His words: I have never avoided the influence of others…I believe that the personality of the artist develops and asserts itself through the struggles it has to go through when pitted against other personalities. If…
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