tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52781358808988028332024-02-20T09:39:37.767-08:00the CASrsbarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17349757139516138503noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278135880898802833.post-43533528400355351822017-11-08T15:30:00.001-08:002017-11-08T15:30:32.428-08:00RebrandingEarlier this year The Center for Academic Study and Naturalist Painting became The Masters Academy of Art. A current list of classes and program descriptions can be found at www.mastersacademyofart.com. We are excited for this fresh start and hope to continue to educate young artists on <i>how</i> to become the master artists they <i>can</i> become.Katie J. Liddiardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01200202060642345490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278135880898802833.post-16959784735237807952015-09-25T09:27:00.000-07:002015-09-25T09:27:24.090-07:00Special Event Invitation<h2 style="background-color: white; color: rgb(64, 64, 64) !important; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: -0.75px; line-height: 32.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times, 'times new roman', serif;">CAS <em>Lecture Series:<br />The Educational Lineage of the CAS, part 1</em></span></h2>
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The CAS curriculum is the culmination of hundreds of years of master artists passing down their knowledge from generation to generation. CAS assistant director, Katie Liddiard, is presenting the first part of her two part lecture <em>The Educational Lineage of the CAS</em>. It traces our roots from Jacques-Louis David through Jean Leon Gerome. We'll learn about the different lives and temperaments of the artists and discover how much the current events of the time influenced the art that was produced.<br /><br />Lectures are, as always, free and open to the public, so we invite everyone to come and participate. Refreshments will be served.</div>
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Friday, September 25, 2015<br />6:00 p.m.<br />CAS Studio: 43 E. 200 S. Springville, Utah 84663</div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,times,times new roman,serif; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: justify;">New Weekly Evening and <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1917081028" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Saturday</span></span> Classes at the CAS</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">After a long Summer break students and
faculty at the CAS are getting prepared to get back in the swing of
things. With the new trimester come new classes which have been opened
up to the public. All skill levels are welcome. <span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">Students must provide own materials, but a suggested materials list from the instructor will be available upon request.</span> We hope you'll join us! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Portrait Drawing/ Painting</b></span>*</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Instructor: Brock Alius</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">When: Every Wednesday <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1917081029" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">6 p.m.- 9 p.m.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Tuition: $45/month (uninstructed), $90/month (instructed). 4 sessions per month. Includes model fees</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Class will cover the fundamentals of drawing a successful portrait
from life. Discussing how to achieve proper proportions, capture a
likeness, properly describe form and lighting, attain structure, and
simplify detail to ultimately achieve a convincing, beautiful, and
truthful depiction of the subject.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">*Painting will be allowed only to students of adequate skill level. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Portrait Drawing/ Painting</b></span>*</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Instructor: Brock Alius</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">When: Every <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1917081030" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Saturday</span></span> <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1917081031" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">10 a.m.- 4 p.m.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Tuition: $200/month. 4 sessions per month. Includes model fees</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">Class will cover the fundamentals of drawing a successful portrait from </span><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">life. Discussing how to achieve proper proportions, capture a likeness, </span><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">properly describe form and lighting, attain structure, and simplify detail to </span><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">ultimately achieve a convincing, beautiful, and truthful depiction of the </span><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">subject.<br />
*Painting will be allowed only to students of adequate skill level. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Paint En Plein Air</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Instructor: Katie Liddiard</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">When: Every <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1917081032" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Saturday</span></span> <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1917081033" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">3 p.m.- 7 p.m.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Tuition: $90/month. <span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">4 sessions per month.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Painting in the beautiful canyons and scenic valley views around
Springville, this class will discuss how to break down the sometimes
overwhelming information of the landscape, and how to get the most out
of your studies in the field.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Student must provide own means of getting to and from painting sites as carpools may not always be available.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">If you are interested in any of these classes, please email <a href="mailto:info@cas-utah.com" target="_blank">info@cas-utah.com</a> for more information.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Sign up quickly, and don't miss out! Space is limited.</span><br />
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<a href="http://cas-utah.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6087e668ee2ddc23bf963b775&id=1b345413ba&e=26c317135a" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><img align="none" class="CToWUd" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgkW4rceU1BBBhCiyuI7fTW0JejCg86zZuR1IbUwZlkVbmtPAdtVzZP1RkxeVkLE56VgUMyKmeP0pzrckjzvMEt3R4Y4tKAprKN0KLYVG1Fr-Ah-MVAzatJX1WnNok1Fiocsu1ttfDZvE5Pq9r_4vTdwx46u8L6N01M_D-4r6aLZ9Zd2V1WYQ0OHChAdL39dWpJPhps7Gh8hTZsQqFSj-IdYqpXj505sQ=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; min-height: 175px; outline: medium none; text-decoration: none;" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">The Hudson River School dates back to the mid-nineteenth century when
painters in Northeast America, particularly the Hudson River Valley,
painted en plein air and took their studies back to the studio to use in
making a larger paintings.</span><br />
<a href="http://cas-utah.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6087e668ee2ddc23bf963b775&id=c4227fd594&e=26c317135a" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><img align="none" class="CToWUd" height="479" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEje550_75ABsJJAMtB-c3DYx1DsawyZKVw8kZQi6-TwGX2gNpoeo3rm4XBSiZvl7MJCm8Jo8tDz7nWxymHIHbsgLRssYYNvFHTeSgq9k9Qws8GSrfd1471eFghXoytzvaKns3pRpQSGnXffNZJXJzH3FsqeppRGCjIdRKoOZwsCklinBfWozoNT0I5csE5BaI8ST5SJt1BZkMvaXwgYJgLEudsObuPJQA=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px none; line-height: 20.8px; margin: 0px; min-height: 175px; outline: medium none; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">The Grand Central Atelier has att<span style="line-height: 1.6em;">empted
to revamp the Hudson River School with an annual Fellowship. Awarding 20
artists the opportunity to immerse themselves in the beautiful White
Mountains of New Hampshire, participants spend three weeks painting,
talking about art, and forming lasting friendships. They are encouraged
to take the studies they made while on the fellowship back to their
studios to compose a larger piece. </span></span></div>
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<a href="http://cas-utah.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6087e668ee2ddc23bf963b775&id=3fd615b9e6&e=26c317135a" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><img align="none" class="CToWUd" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgK8eNiLeL98eX33JV6Stf0K0yle8HnFNvfyjYAawBSDWyiJygF_qfKol9_mq-ElHkEnGouTZa7twRgB4e_fIGIBWBtJx-VZW5ognZP9Kknh-MmZQMeVJvTBsZdQQYLJQCteUy1tjxviTD_X6zYv1dUEP61elZSWvBvx07lnppsMgYjHw3G4fn50rUJriyogV-7PnrLWFc5qq88ZxrYJEpgXJTSNxDjUQ=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px none; line-height: 20.8px; margin: 0px; min-height: 175px; outline: medium none; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" width="299" /></a><a href="http://cas-utah.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6087e668ee2ddc23bf963b775&id=282fd9b89f&e=26c317135a" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><img align="none" class="CToWUd" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiUWyr58bbVLesV7xCleCL4GRAldqkMCR6XwPUzeUiy_tB2FME-53wuoLvSMha0Ago3-zM6P9bMH7elBlkTJrHcXs6JdVomL3JpG6BlvDMTZfk-F-Jia-LNbNvdDHHRSdSIs1HUOt0ltDFiT3S7iSRp6HY9vabd5tWdXHrutFFsxESxC_TMySx7snmtz6RO2DgaBpYTCRv7OBpzL5eYWeOZ8odtp3JoEA=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px none; line-height: 20.8px; margin: 0px; min-height: 175px; outline: medium none; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" width="299" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">CAS Assistant Director, Katie Liddiard, was one of the lucky few to be
chosen to participate the past two years and her love for painting the
landscape has been cemented through these experiences. "It's all art,
all day," she says, adding, "We would wake up (sometimes before
sunrise), pack up lunch, and we're out the door until after painting the
sunset. After that we'd congregate to eat dinner and talk art. It's an
absolutely magical thing to connect with other artists who are just as
passionate as you about their craft and want to learn more. We would
offer critiques, encourage one another, and glean information from each
other since all of us were from different backgrounds. Even though we
all had to disband after the fellowship, distance hasn't dampened our
friendship. In the art world having friends you can trust to give you
honest feedback about your work is invaluable, and I definitely made
those sorts of relationships at the fellowship."</span><br />
<a href="http://cas-utah.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6087e668ee2ddc23bf963b775&id=7e9ec08bf7&e=26c317135a" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><img align="none" class="CToWUd" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiLphxnQh52ynVHwsNevsb4VyqGBjBe76YpDX7Hvwt2ZAyVrnl_ffWABHBlSTwRNb-5wIwpzcdy0XkO6iFxTvnZstoFmO0E4UOV3RxTn3K7JQ29pxGiJUWYS0XOuWEiQVbIHVWNXdIS6K96mYxwMXGp1hYeQTR4QLZ2UBPgB9P_oC9TXINjnnT2_Hym-gk5gSCRTx_3HL7o8IB1JgH4_5cZ-2rDn8uE0g=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; min-height: 175px; outline: medium none; text-decoration: none;" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Just as the old masters of the Hudson River School, Katie is now
composing a piece based off of her studies while in New Hampshire. She
says she's anxious to start painting it, but won't until the composition
is just right.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">For more information about the Hudson River School, go to <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hurs/hd_hurs.htm" target="_blank">http://www.metmuseum.org/<wbr></wbr>toah/hd/hurs/hd_hurs.htm</a>.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">For more information about the Hudson River Fellowship, go to <a href="http://grandcentralatelier.org/hudson-river-fellowship.php" target="_blank">http://grandcentralatelier.<wbr></wbr>org/hudson-river-fellowship.<wbr></wbr>php</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Every Summer the CAS hosts several workshops bringing great new learning
experiences that turn into treasured memories for all the participants,
and this year was no exception.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">We started out Summer Break with CAS director Ryan Brown teaching a 5
day sight size portrait workshop. Participants got one on one
instruction on how to break down and accurately see the portrait of the
model they were painting or drawing. Summer scholarship winner,
Christelle Xu, was one of the participants as her scholarship covered
her tuition costs for the workshop. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Then we got the special treat of hosting Edward Minoff as he taught his 5
day portrait workshop. Starting out with drawing, then into grisaille
painting, and on to full color painting. By the end of the week our
heads hurt from Edward's vast knowledge of form that he was so gracious
enough to share so freely.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">The final workshop of the summer was Ryan Brown's Plein Air workshop.
Students got some fresh mountain air as they painted every afternoon in
the gorgeous light of Hobble Creek Canyon. Summer Scholarship winner,
Neldon Bullock, was one of the participants as his scholarship covered
his tuition costs for the workshop.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">We had a fantastic summer learning new techniques during these
workshops, and now we're excited to apply what we learned to our work
during the upcoming school year.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">If you'd like more information about any of the workshops discussed here, or any future workshops, please email <a href="mailto:info@cas-utah.com" target="_blank">info@cas-utah.com</a></span>Katie J. Liddiardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01200202060642345490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278135880898802833.post-29753606692260207252015-08-11T19:29:00.000-07:002015-09-10T19:31:07.609-07:00News, August 2015<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">School is out for the Summer which means
workshop season is underway. Here's a few shots of director of the CAS,
Ryan Brown, teaching a great group of participants. We're excited to
see what they come up with by the end of the week.<br />
Workshops are great opportunities to learn from artists you've always
admired, but without any long term time and money commitments. At the
CAS we make sure we offer the highest quality workshops we can, so you
can be sure that you get your money's worth and will leave feeling like
you really learned something. For more information on upcoming workshops
at the CAS scroll down, or visit our website <a href="http://www.cas-utah.com/" target="_blank">www.cas-utah.com</a>.</span><br />
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The Summer Workshop Schedule has begun, but there's still time and a few
more spaces to sign up for the last two workshops. Act fast by calling <a href="tel:801.822.8802" target="_blank" value="+18018228802">801.822.8802</a> or <a href="tel:801.822.2178" target="_blank" value="+18018222178">801.822.2178</a>
to find out more information and to sign up. You don't want to miss out
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Here's a list of the rest of the CAS' Summer 2015 Workshops: </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Painting the Portrait </strong><br />
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Workshop dates: August 17-21<br />
Tuition: $625<br />
Reservation deadline: August 16, 2015<br />
Each day will bring a new pose, building towards painting convincing and lifelike portrait sketches.<br />
More information may be found at <a href="http://cas-utah.com/" target="_blank">cas-utah.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Plein Air Landscape</strong><br />
Taught by Ryan S. Brown<br />
Workshop dates: August 24-28<br />
Tuition: $400<br />
Reservation deadline: August 23, 2015<br />
<span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">Every day is spent in the field, painting and discussing</span> the stages of development for a plein air landscape sketch.<br />
More information may be found at <a href="http://cas-utah.com/" target="_blank">cas-utah.com</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=6babe2a57f5f9861032fbb62b&id=5a2017da24" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><img align="none" class="CToWUd" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiVhYeCHtvVkzlKvIstNmG4q4xftm3AJWOQCf6MZXs17UkWMBTZQQa89n-yUiDQDCQ8twjlmUPA7H4PcqPBjZUoCDZ3Nft-2FPUBkrJPZUNdOq4OdQdsm9FRoH_ZBokllH-At43dfHFWF-5suZU3o9QI9wKNNT8CpSQx7yObJ5vIOhpcuNRfP4PQ_DCcSAysZ0aiaDjpS993tdHdqvu8hQJjiEXnNZk9g=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; min-height: 400px; outline: medium none; text-decoration: none;" width="332" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Boston saw some great painting during the last week of July. Highly
talented artists such as Shane Wolf, Carlo Russo, and Elizabeth
Zanzinger just to name a few gathered together at the Academy of Realist
Art, Boston for their first annual Figure Painting Competition.
Director of the CAS, Ryan Brown, was one of the lucky few to be invited
to attend and he sure didn't disappoint viewers with his outstanding
knowledge for painting the figure. At the end of the week voting was
opened up to the public and Ryan received the Viewer's Choice Award. His
painting looks great and represented the CAS well. Great job Ryan! More
information about the competition may be found at <a href="http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=6babe2a57f5f9861032fbb62b&id=5a2017da24" target="_blank">http://us7.campaign-archive1.<wbr></wbr>com/?u=<wbr></wbr>6babe2a57f5f9861032fbb62b&id=<wbr></wbr>5a2017da24</a>.</span>Katie J. Liddiardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01200202060642345490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278135880898802833.post-22143268154491534372015-06-09T19:25:00.000-07:002015-09-10T19:27:27.547-07:00News, June 2015<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: georgia,times,times new roman,serif;">CAS <em>Paint En Plein</em> Air Student Competition Winners</span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Many talented students applied to the
CAS Paint En Plein Air Student Competition, but unfortunately only three
could take away one of the Grand Prize Packages. <span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">It
was a lot to ask judges Ryan Brown, Carlo Russo, and Kate Sammons to
narrow down all of the applications to the top five, so to ask them to
pick the top three out of those five was strenuous.<br />
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The winners:<br />
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Julie Beck- Academy of Realist Art Boston<br />
Emilae Belo- The Center for Academic Study<br />
Leeanna Chipana- Grand Central Atelier</span></span>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px; text-align: justify;">We'd like to wish the winners a huge congratulations. It is well deserved. </span></span>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">All
three will receive a prize package fit for a budding professional
artist. With sponsors like Raymar Art, Natural Pigments, Soltek Easel,
Strada Easel, Guerrilla Box, Rosemary and Co., Trekell, Gamblin,
ArtEfex, Kolibri Brushes, and Jerry's Artarama these student
artists know they're getting quality materials with which to start their
career.</span><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: georgia,times,times new roman,serif;">CAS Summer 2015 Workshop Schedule</span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Every Summer the CAS hosts several workshops bringing great new learning
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Sight-Size Portrait Drawing & Painting </strong><br />
<span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">Taught by Ryan S. Brown</span><br />
Workshop dates: August 10-14<br />
Tuition: $450<br />
Reservation deadline: July 1, 2015<br />
This unique workshop will pair only two artists per model as
participants work in "sight-size", allowing for thorough study of the
development of a classical portrait.<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Painting the Portrait </strong><br />
<span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">Taught by Edward Minoff</span><br />
Workshop dates: August 17-21<br />
Tuition: $625<br />
Reservation deadline: July 1, 2015<br />
Each day will bring a new pose, building towards painting convincing and lifelike portrait sketches.<br />
More information may be found at <a href="http://cas-utah.com/" target="_blank">cas-utah.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Plein Air Landscape</strong><br />
Taught by Ryan S. Brown<br />
Workshop dates: August 24-28<br />
Tuition: $400<br />
Reservation deadline: July 1, 2015<br />
<span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">Every day is spent in the field, painting and discussing</span> the stages of development for a plein air landscape sketch.<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Painting Italy</strong><br />
Taught by Ryan S. Brown<br />
Workshop dates: August 31- September 5<br />
Tuition: $1650 (does not include airfare)<br />
<span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">Reservation deadline: June 15, 2015</span><br />
This amazing workshop will be held at the Punta Ala Resort on the
Mediterranean in the Tuscany region of Italy. 6 days and 5 nights will
be spent painting seascapes, forest interiors, Tuscan villas, and many
other quintessential Italian scenes.<br />
<span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">More information may be found at <a href="http://cas-utah.com/" target="_blank">cas-utah.com</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">The CAS got a couple new full time students recently. Grand prize winner
of the 2nd annual CAS Summer Scholarship Competition, Meghan Sours,
recently started her tuition free month-long studies and is well into
her first Bargue copy. However, Second place winner, Christelle Xu,
decided, upon visiting the studio after she won, that she wanted to
study full time through the whole Spring trimester. She just passed off
her first Bargue copy and is getting ready to tackle a new one.
Christelle's <span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">prize will come in August when we hold the 5 day Sight-Size Portrait Workshop which she will be able to attend tuition free.</span> We're happy to have them here at the CAS.<br />
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But we can't forget our Third place winner, Neldon Bullock. He has the opportunity to attend the<span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;"> 5
day Plein Air Landscape Painting Workshop in August tuition free. We're
looking forward to working with him this Summer in the beautiful
landscape that surrounds Springville, Utah.<br />
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We couldn't be more pleased with the winners' talent and dedication to
learning more about their craft. All of them are definitely worthy of
the prizes they won. Good job artists!</span></span>Katie J. Liddiardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01200202060642345490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278135880898802833.post-48539671299638862392015-05-11T19:16:00.000-07:002015-09-10T19:22:28.930-07:00News, May 2015<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: georgia,times,times new roman,serif;">CAS <em>Paint En Plein</em> Air Student Competition</span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Being a professional artist can be expensive. Buying professional grade
equipment and materials can quickly add up which can be daunting for
students. This often leads to students using lesser quality materials.
The <strong>CAS <em>Paint En Plein Air</em> Student Competition</strong>
is aimed specifically toward students for this reason. Three prize
packages will have everything a student needs to get started- including
plein air boxes, brushes, paints, mediums, panels, and more- encouraging
them to get outside and paint!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">For information on prizes, judges, and how to apply visit <a href="http://cas-utah.com/" target="_blank">cas-utah.com</a>.</span>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Application deadline: May 15, 2015</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Every Summer the CAS hosts several workshops bringing great new learning
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<strong style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;"><a href="http://www.cas-utah.com/2015-sight-size-portrait.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><img align="none" class="CToWUd" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEh7f8prMPWVILbZHqsEBFw8Quxnsrpvlp1STTMtjefTpNY_RAaeITUc4BIxvcv4Kzj6J2lmCELP7Grhc-blOh__zOxnc5bBzxQw52YAyguNaSJ0U2Q6Kciu07xhjv3rrd8gyH13uyz_2gda2rrZmrRzDaJOeY7lcc9BFeRXrA8kCMAgZNnxD373Xg7PaDiy0ZbNdvACHl7JyW4mVKvDMIXfpCiX34xjUg=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; min-height: 200px; outline: medium none; text-decoration: none;" /></a></strong><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Sight-Size Portrait Drawing & Painting </strong><br />
<span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">Taught by Ryan S. Brown</span><br />
Workshop dates: August 10-14<br />
Tuition: $450<br />
Reservation deadline: July 1, 2015<br />
This unique workshop will pair only two artists per model as
participants work in "sight-size", allowing for thorough study of the
development of a classical portrait.<br />
More information may be found at <a href="http://cas-utah.com/" target="_blank">cas-utah.com</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.cas-utah.com/2015-edward-minoff---portrait.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><img align="none" class="CToWUd" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEg5hjEYrO_cCNyWdJ9kpEG9I84rJLbPBguC6e1s1rmFk9HVcVO7tEsm-yKskZCbDR_879ceo4ij1pZtaDcrv1voCay9ofL_IPrMDPu1T6icgCU0OI4VOni0NvjC33GZRX_DivWEfsZgETdQsl0m70J7VI4U9xucnzvnGKVtgEWvtHbbT8aBuCY4pINitYe8AuC_CS3QYPGzJp9BuiLFp_orh8D5FwaR9w=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; min-height: 168px; outline: medium none; text-decoration: none;" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Painting the Portrait </strong><br />
<span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">Taught by Edward Minoff</span><br />
Workshop dates: August 17-21<br />
Tuition: $625<br />
Reservation deadline: July 1, 2015<br />
Each day will bring a new pose, building towards painting convincing and lifelike portrait sketches.<br />
More information may be found at <a href="http://cas-utah.com/" target="_blank">cas-utah.com</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.cas-utah.com/2015-landscape.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><img align="none" class="CToWUd" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEj754k9NM1edzjW9nuWCGBZhSwo2esNAIoyacPGarc7c0X2kfN23meIfB2l05XBM_0-TfbmisH2ALxSNVe1tdLZ_v8pmQRYs8yNfBVqBvxN9XKWpJ7neThYDpdXqZiaQtBcZBNQfAu8LRjZJ8GZs4oSbf46N1Rxo3cJdhaAd9SCuBaDZXxjQh9l_RHnwQPATmOIuDdTBFY2L1jh-pdzfiXRu6OMtUDVmQ=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; min-height: 146px; outline: medium none; text-decoration: none;" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Plein Air Landscape</strong><br />
Taught by Ryan S. Brown<br />
Workshop dates: August 24-28<br />
Tuition: $400<br />
Reservation deadline: July 1, 2015<br />
<span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">Every day is spent in the field, painting and discussing</span> the stages of development for a plein air landscape sketch.<br />
More information may be found at <a href="http://cas-utah.com/" target="_blank">cas-utah.com</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.cas-utah.com/2015-paint-italy.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><img align="none" class="CToWUd" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjpHs8D0MTZk8_dg7HfiM0UBRfy5MaOA5PlVZto5bQxYGnW8tm50mAwAIR3GhH_IAgFxT7zYFeqTJuObtklcIZAwK90OHYtwco2BjzEiPlZsRZXB5-ZoRm3-lDAvFsEapCzw7droSmTypliqlfurqvJMzZ6WTtk43VVPlsbOSpdI3mshJEbb66rQykeOFxyH0iKRfVVZFToATBoF7wovG9JzKQpiz5UIQ=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; min-height: 133px; outline: medium none; text-decoration: none;" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><strong>Painting Italy</strong><br />
Taught by Ryan S. Brown<br />
Workshop dates: August 31- September 5<br />
Tuition: $1650 (does not include airfare)<br />
<span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">Reservation deadline: June 15, 2015</span><br />
This amazing workshop will be held at the Punta Ala Resort on the
Mediterranean in the Tuscany region of Italy. 6 days and 5 nights will
be spent painting seascapes, forest interiors, Tuscan villas, and many
other quintessential Italian scenes.<br />
<span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">More information may be found at <a href="http://cas-utah.com/" target="_blank">cas-utah.com</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times, times new roman, serif;">A CAS Student in Need</span></span></h2>
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Taryn Blackburn is a dedicated mother
with a love for art. She's been dreaming about becoming an artist since
she was a young girl and finally has the opportunity to study full time
at the CAS this Summer.<br />
She's saved up as much money as she could and moved her family from
another state in order to receive the education she so desperately
desires. But Taryn still needs some help. She has set up a fund at <a href="http://gofundme.com/" target="_blank">gofundme.com</a> to try and raise only $850 more, ensuring her children, housing, and tuition are fully covered for the Summer.<br />
If you would like to help Taryn visit <a href="http://www.gofundme.com/tarynart" target="_blank">www.gofundme.com/tarynart</a>.
</span>Katie J. Liddiardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01200202060642345490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278135880898802833.post-53994774673934013432015-02-27T10:57:00.000-08:002015-02-27T10:59:38.204-08:00Fraud? Really?Recently there have been suspicions and claims of fraud from some people over social media. I'm here to set the record straight and to try to understand their claims.<br />
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Two photos were presented as portrait paintings of Sonja. One was painted by CAS director Ryan Brown, and the other was painted by me, Katie Liddiard.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Sonja</u><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">, 20"x 24" Oil on linen</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">by Ryan Brown</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sonja</u>, 18"x 24" Oil on panel<br />
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The claim is that I copied Ryan's work and that I'm trying to pass it off as my own. This couldn't be farther from the truth. It's true, the positions are similar, but I would argue that the handling of each portrait is very different.<br />
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So a little back story on how this all came to be-</div>
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Sonja is a tried and true model for the CAS. She's posed for us countless times and is an absolute beautiful woman. So when Ryan posed the idea of painting a portrait with Brock Alius and I, it was a no brainer that we would ask Sonja to sit for us. We opened the session up to other students as well. In total there were about 6 of us gathered around the model, sharing the expenses to have her pose for us 6 hours a day/ 5 days a week for a month. As per protocol at the CAS for picking spots in the model room, the head of the school (Ryan) picks first, then top student, then the next best student, and so on and so forth. Ryan picked his spot based on what he wanted to capture in the beauty of the pose, and chose to sit down to paint the portrait. Sonja's profile is extremely beautiful and I chose a spot where I could try to capture it. That spot happened to be behind and slightly to the side of Ryan. Everyone else in the room picked their spots around the model based on what they wanted to capture in their work.</div>
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Sonja is very beautiful, but her features can be elusive. This painting, quite honestly, was difficult for me, though I'm not disappointed with the outcome. Ryan's is extremely beautiful and I think captured her very well. I'd buy his piece in a heartbeat if I could afford it. If anyone wants to see the progression shots he did, you can see them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbpLLwKD3P8 . He has far more experience than I do at painting portraits, especially at the time that we painted this particular pose. </div>
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So my question is where is the "fraud"? The person on social media said she would never promote a work that was similar to a colleague's or teacher's work. But why? Because the teacher or colleague deserves all the recognition? Because the teacher or colleague has more of a name for themselves so they get first and only claim to promote their work of a particular pose when others worked on it as well? Perhaps because the teacher or colleague is a man? Though I would hope that's not the reason. Maybe because the teacher or colleague shot progression photos, so that gives him first and only claim to the pose? Because the teacher or colleague was first to send theirs to a gallery? I don't think so. </div>
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Ryan has made more of a name for himself because he's been a professional painter for a while now. That gave him the confidence and ability to shoot the progression photos and come up with a really nice piece. I could have shot progression photos of my piece, but it would not have been so inspiring because there was a lot of fussing over it. Ryan did get his framed and sent out to a gallery before I did because of all of my fussing, but when I did finally send mine out I sent it to a different gallery. Never once did Ryan say, "Hey, you can't show that! It looks like mine!" And why would he? He's not threatened by me, nor I him. We're completely supportive of each other and the pieces were done independently, though from the same pose. </div>
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This idea of artists working for the same pose is not, by any means, new. Here's an example of two, extremely talented professional artists from the 19th century working alongside each other. The paintings are similar, but they are by no means the same. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Unexpected Intrusion </u>or <u>Boy Feeding Parrot</u>, 1876<br />
by William Merritt Chase</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Turkish Page</u>, 1876<br />
by Frank Duveneck</td></tr>
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So which one, using the logic introduced by the person on social media, would have gotten the opportunity to promote their piece? The answer is that both of them showed their pieces. Because they're both works of art.<br />
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Look through any academy's photo album. <br />
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You'll see students and teachers consistently working side by side. This is how the students learn from each other and from their instructor. Here's some pieces from some of our students at the CAS showing this exact principle. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brian Johnson</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emilae Belo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Randy Peay</td></tr>
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All are figure studies of Alexanna in the same pose, so all probably have similar titles. So if one person chooses to frame and send their piece to a gallery, do the others not get that opportunity? Seems silly. </div>
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I hope this sheds some light on the issue for those confused as to how can I feel morally and legally okay about showing, and hopefully selling, my portrait of Sonja when Ryan has a piece similar to it. There is no foul play involved. I would never knowingly pass something off as my own if it weren't. Ryan and I have known each other for a long time and care for and support each other a great deal. He would never want me to not promote my work because one of his paintings is similar. "Similar" is not "same".<br />
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in drawing is absolutely the most important factor and the first step
toward developing the visual clarity that allows you to self-critique
your work.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Learn to see the whole –
all elements in a work must work in harmony to support the whole.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Use your mirror. This
helps provide a mental separation with the piece that brings clarity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Learn to see it as it is,
and not how it was – separate yourself from the small steps that
made the work better in order to see whether or not it is fully
resolved yet. Self-critiquing is difficult because we see everything
that has gone into the piece. When we make a change or a correction
it is easy to convince ourselves that it’s right, or that it’s
fully resolved. It’s easy to see it that way because we see how
much better it looks than it did in previous stages. It becomes
necessary to blind yourself to how much better it looks and see it as
if you've never looked at it before. Try to figure out if it is
fully resolved or if it still needs some adjusting.
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Good drawing is a product
of good understanding – It is easy to see in a final painting how
much the artist understood his subject. You cannot define something
you do not understand. In the initial stages of a drawing or
painting we concentrate on the flat, abstract explanation of a
subject, or ‘how’ the shapes, rhythms and proportions look. An
important transition in our thinking leads us to ‘why’ the shapes
look like they do. This ‘why’ helps bring us to a fully
realized, sculptural explanation of the subject.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Never knowingly leave
anything wrong on the canvas.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Take breaks – rest your
eyes – after a break, don’t come back and pick up where you left
off. Look for the worst thing in the painting and attack that. This
forces you to assess the whole of the painting and look for the areas
that negatively affect the visual impression of the painting.
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Self-critiquing will only
get you most of the way there. Always ask someone whose eyes you
respect. Don’t assume you can pull it off by yourself. Painting
is hard enough. Don’t cheat yourself out of a needed pair of fresh
eyes and a fresh perspective. Your painting deserves every
opportunity to be as brilliant as it can be. Greatness is never
achieved alone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On March 21st, Katie Liddiard lectured about the influential 19th century artist Jules Bastien-Lepage. Here is her lecture for those who could not attend:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Born
on Nov. 1, 1848 In Damvillers, France in the Lorraine region. He
loved his home, which would be a strong thread throughout his body of
work. His father operated a small farm and vineyard to support the
family, though they were not destitute like many of the peasants of
the area. Jules took an early interest in art, perhaps because his
father was also an artist, and his parents encouraged him by buying
prints of paintings to copy. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 11pt;">When
the time came, his parents wanted more for him than working the farm,
so he went away to college in the nearby town of Verdun, possibly at
the commune or monastery. There he met Louis Collin. They became
friends and together decided to become professional artists. He
received his degree which was very valued at the time and was offered
a job in the government in the Post Office Department. Though he
wasn't thrilled to take the job as he had other plans, he accepted
the clerk’s position as the dutiful son that he was. His parents
knew nothing of his desires to become an artist yet. But not all hope
was lost. The job was in Paris which excited him as he’d dreamed of
getting an artist’s education and what better place to
receive it? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 11pt;">Every free moment he had was spent at the museums and
expositions, studying the masters. He seemed to appreciate Flemish
painting over Italian, but respected what the Renaissance had
accomplished. While studying the old schools, he was fully aware of
the new, contemporary ideas that were being pushed by Manet and
Courbet. He sympathized with the efforts of these two men in the
onslaught of criticism they received for not conforming to the well
beaten paths of Classicism and Romanticism. After he could no longer
accept not being a painter, he quit his job and enrolled in the Ecole
des Beaux-arts. (His parents weren't so pleased with this decision.)
He was admitted into Alexandre Cabanel’s atelier at the age of 19
where he met up with his old friend Collin again, who had previously
been studying in Bouguereau’s atelier. They worked alongside
Fernand Cormon, Morot, and Benjamin Constant. Without the income from
the postal job, however, and money from his parents tight, he went
from business to business in search of advertising work. He made
enough to live off of, some advertisements even widely circulated,
though his name was not known even though he had a painting in the
Salon. His first Salon entry was in 1870 with a portrait of a young
man, which is now lost.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 11pt;">Jules was known to only occasionally be in class as he prefered to
work alone. He seemed to agree with Emile Zola’s observation that
“Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon
us as geniuses, men of correct, facile talent who follow the beaten
track”. So though classically trained, he wanted to stay true to
his own vision. He studied with Cabanel for three years during which
time he won a couple drawing prizes, one of them even being a first
place award.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"> <img height="320" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/oFtvYmuQ0sLHW0mpbnFqIQJHs7dW0NeU_AHhQAUbfUqVedpuDi-YALJZ5YphCq5pmUEGpjr7GaYGr8vHhbxPSI8bxHSXB42Oet1pNhsaYHsYmF-2QMaK4HkHuGUjucoM" width="171" /> <a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/sjGcqecWsUD1T48BxT-Jx17d71VU_mH0LqmoP2QTBcirrbsIaMT9-tgxjniEhqCpBadp2jXgXoVJ8mJRasmS8qVHszfwwp-MTwQhQWBKzcXZNMVgFDYWirE-iiTaj8-k" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/sjGcqecWsUD1T48BxT-Jx17d71VU_mH0LqmoP2QTBcirrbsIaMT9-tgxjniEhqCpBadp2jXgXoVJ8mJRasmS8qVHszfwwp-MTwQhQWBKzcXZNMVgFDYWirE-iiTaj8-k" width="209" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">The
the Franco-Prussian war broke out in 1870 and Jules went to serve in
the army as it directly affected his beloved Lorraine. While fighting
he was severely wounded in the chest. When he returned home he
painted family and local villagers while he recovered. He also tried,
unsuccessfully at illustration work.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In
1874 he entered the Salon again with </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Song
of Spring</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Portrait
of My Grandfather</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.
These submissions were the first real critical recognition Jules
received for his work and the portrait of his grandfather won him a
third-class medal. These two pieces clearly demonstrate the subjects
Bastien-Lepage naturally excelled at and the ones he did not. <i>Song of
Spring</i> is an allegory which held little interest to him while the
portrait of his grandfather is extremely natural in pose,
observation, handling, and color. During this time he was
commissioned to paint the Prince of Wales which he exhibited in 1880
at the Royal Academy. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The
following year’s Salon he entered </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>First
Communion</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Portrait
of M. Hayem</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.
This time he was awarded a second prize. Though he still felt that he
could do more. He was still not the painter he wanted to be. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-edef9984-ea35-1d09-597d-bed0c415c347"> <img height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/WcTjo0tgr3jteu6sPk6FGPozRaoSQfNPmudpucm3xdwh3OpMO4kLHrub97f5s2uHajUe2Kd9zVTZQ6ubLMIVbrbApvDmEHzhT3q6KfeYOEpjCjxqT05InhJq4yVFI85d" width="213" /> </span><img height="320" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/T-KEdb3Q0J2ZwtGh7pWm6mOmt6-JAux7wRyy3QxGeqIC6D6EPfN0XXJtCtj-nNFdzLW7K7n8dyl3vr5hzP8vdNYFTBYjdQkb4tos9QRTbNr-KNdWtT82X-M4Jnb1qhgW" width="242" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">So
in 1875 he decided to compete for the Prix de Rome with </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Angels
Appearing to the Shepherds</i></span> <span style="font-size: 11pt;"> which received him second place. He applied again in 1876 with </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Priam
at the feet of Achilles</i></span> <span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and was again unsuccessful. It could be that the subjects were just
too much of antiquity. He prefered to be in nature, painting what he
knew. These were subjects of ancient tradition to which he felt little connection. He decided that he would stick with what he was most
comfortable and happy painting: portraits, and people of the land and
their fields. That same year he painted </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>The
Portrait of M. Wallon </i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> which is a testament to his inclination to paint in a
naturalistic way.</span></span></span></div>
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entries:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1877-
</span> <span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>My
Parents </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1878-
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Portrait
of M. Theuriet</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>The
Hayfield</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">- inspired by a poem: </span></span>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #cccccc;">“<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The
reaper stretched out on his bed of fresh grass</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 11pt;">Sleeps
with clenched fists while</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 11pt;">The
tedder, faint and fuddled, tanned by the sun,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 11pt;">Sits
vacantly dreaming beside him…”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This
piece clearly shows the precursors to Impressionism. Light palette,
close framing, brushy forms. </span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-6a0669e9-ea3a-f1cd-df5d-4f768013fdf6" style="color: #cccccc;"> <img height="299" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/c-N7iVHBfBxmTfHZ4cvOEiu6i9YoE6_ZVzsE9bohn6Mg_Aikfw0pmw6gRmH9VlYoMG2lBAKFd3MxYq1C05blnxzVUVTkz3uG6tk95VtpY1GvrbsS6GsQwizVQaGSCQ9-" width="320" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1879-
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Portrait
of Mlle Sarah Bernhardt</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">-
won the cross of the Legion of Honor</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>October:
Gathering Potatoes</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">-</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Théodore
de Banville, writing of the Salon of 1879, said: "M.
Bastien-Lepage is the king of this Exposition. Young as he is, he has
started in to produce masterpieces: he is very wise! For in later
years an artist continues to copy himself, with more or less
cleverness and success; but the creative genius has taken wing, like
a bird on whose tail we have failed to drop the indispensable grain
of salt. The </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>October
Season</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">pictures
the harvesting of potatoes. The earth, the encompassing air as far as
we can see, the sky, the solitude laden with silence, are all evoked
for us in this picture by the sincerity of its powerful painter; the
peasant women are done in a masterly manner, and precisely for the
reason that he has seen them apart from all convention and has not
tried to idealize them by any hackneyed device."</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Albert
Wolff also commented on the piece- "The colouring in </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Women
harvesting Potatoes</i></span> <span style="font-size: 11pt;">is
ingratiating and discreet; not a discordant touch disturbs the
beautiful harmony of this canvas, over which the silence of the open
country has descended, enveloping the obscure toil. It is only
artists of superior powers who can embody so much charm in a single
conception."</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This
image brings to mind Millet’s </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>The
Gleaners</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">,
except there is no sorrow or sympathy for the women in
Bastien-Lepage’s work as there is in Millet’s. There’s a sense
of resoluteness in their faces, instead. They’re not downtrodden,
they do their work willingly. </span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6a066a07-ea3c-c030-f14f-11aebf3836db"> <img height="295" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/lbIn9kPKqdVsjeeYGZip76xYE4lQCEPbqP_pbhpZxiftmRwNoP1u0jyhodOibU6iTRPJ3q60noXIX7xvpxBBsXBuSpqSVSYSyc0I-QkE5YJt5LSqNemm_mE5Ky4EzFgI" width="320" /> </span><img height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/iyqu_VB-rCmwiVKaai53vC_AbAgjW_FONFAzqoSxVWqALR0uTjxtZDp8nuG2wigvppdofkAyMKdU1-31fLeYbnSBJRhd_j3Y-JMa_0Osaga0JFoSxWHq36KJ_OJ07a_w" width="320" /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1880-
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Joan
of Arc Listening to the Voices</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">- This was a tribute to his native Lorraine as Joan was from
the same region. But the critics were not so keen on the piece,
reproaching him for the use of traditional saints. Idealists claimed
it was not ideal enough, realists claimed the saints should not be
there at all. Again, this was a subject that he was not all
comfortable with as it was more supernatural instead of his
naturalist bend and it shows a bit in the piece. </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-6a066a10-ea3f-86ef-ff2b-c9764556db3b" style="color: #cccccc;"> <img height="289" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/BXVMSoOEwAL80vX9Xb0mWSu7I9YfgMxIvJr7t3bQ9fwOqJYpRLRVAphj657AkE5QdidzNa8HszNmxufq8SJaezH6ex4gEcnQfZucqMuZo6pHq1QOwevSWpbU9Pu3n_v9" width="320" /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1881-
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>The
Beggar</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-6a066a2b-ea40-0ba8-052f-05f15d18c3ba" style="color: #cccccc;"> <img height="320" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_LWm7X1E8RttdXiSkIs35mlxWMnOT0x5zt-MwBbY-eHJjqC8jFlXQcklRzRoGqhPkxRirKxFRspFcjrFj-3d3S8XesYxB8XdzED6d8CxJCwncuqWE4sjpHCGnlnqKPAu" width="280" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 11pt;"><i><br /></i></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1882-
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Le
Pere Jacques</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-6a066a49-ea41-2e14-16ee-c42fca653312" style="color: #cccccc;"> <img height="320" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-jqjm4EqQKsdn9_Kxv_1rne1bm2kLViARfM74H3ND9awxExyEBXJlXRqxfPfRXMg2guETF-7RjNDnZSpSZ72GWNUkVnjD9uxld4jl36_W0SslPkJKULiQgAwMSYlMlDC" width="293" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 11pt;"><i><br /></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">He
also submitted works to the 1883 and 1884 Salons. </span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">His
portraits and figure paintings were always eagerly awaited by the
critics, and regularly reviewed. They brought him much recognition,
and several paintings were bought by the State. With the success and
recognition he received from the Salons, he was able to travel.
Particularly to England, Switzerland, and Italy. Many works were
brought back from these travels. </span></span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Bastien-Lepage
was avidly collected in Europe and America, and exerted tremendous
influence on an international group of followers from France,
Germany, England, America and beyond, who took up his Naturalist
approach to painting and made it one of the dominant movements at the
Paris Salons of the 1880s and 1890s. After reviewing the 1883 Salon,
one art critic said, “In each room, on each wall, everywhere you
turn- Bastien-Lepage! Everywhere, constantly, and incessantly. The
whole world paints so much today like Mr. Bastien-Lepage that Mr.
Bastien-Lepage seems to paint like the whole world.” This made it
very difficult to identify true Bastien-Lepage works if they were not
signed and dated. One example is a painting of a young peasant woman. Though it is attributed to him, there were so many imitators
that no one is absolutely sure. </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-edef99a2-ea42-798b-888f-6634ac4bc7ac" style="color: #cccccc;"> <img height="320" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mh7ElqwKnJX86GYLCZMbLCiUq6alMul5xhhicgSMF1XJ-59D3RuvoLxX4beO8POQb2_y1OZg0gDvFlWLZQ0PUOu0G85Oqr7ZHobDLv3srlewDyDeYVPPvO4cIxQyhKM7" width="258" /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The
first attacks of ill health ailed Bastien-Lepage. Violent pain made
him irritable and cut off almost all outside contact. He consulted
with doctors who told him some sea air would be beneficial. He
traveled to Brittany, which alleviated the symptoms only briefly
before taking a turn for the worse. After travelling back to Paris to
again consult with doctors, who were realizing Bastien-Lepage’s
fate, he travelled to Algiers with his mother. Again in an effort
that the warm African sun and sea air would hurry his recovery. The
trip kept him in good spirits for a time, but again the illness took
hold and he was forced back to Paris. His kidneys and intestines
failed. He would be stricken with horrendous pain for days at a time
that forced him to stay on his back. He could only sleep with
powerful doses of morphine. All the time he worked as best he could,
not being able to stand not painting. Only about a year before he had
been optimistic about death stating "I am not afraid of death,
dying is nothing,—the important thing is to survive oneself, and
who can be sure of establishing a claim upon posterity? So long as
our work is true, nothing else matters." But now he was
shattered with no hope of relief except through the one way that he
did not want just yet. He died in Paris on December 10, 1884 at the
age of 36. </span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/CU0TDk8nikBK4qXuQFmrTCBO_wb3PMm93jCjaOiohUuDCuHXYZrAJ4HHUcPhARKK7RLr9zxKRwlh0WjCqt7JLgfKz7lMr0sQjAwhCSJ6SYCrMYCtG-iQc7RtF3hd3CR5" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/CU0TDk8nikBK4qXuQFmrTCBO_wb3PMm93jCjaOiohUuDCuHXYZrAJ4HHUcPhARKK7RLr9zxKRwlh0WjCqt7JLgfKz7lMr0sQjAwhCSJ6SYCrMYCtG-iQc7RtF3hd3CR5" width="111" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 11pt;">M.
Gustave Larroumet, director of the Beaux-Arts gave a fitting tribute
in honor of the artist after his death as a statue of him constructed
by Rodin was erected in Damvillers. He said, "At the moment
when ordinarily the best of artists have done no more than to give
indications of their originality and when ripening years alone begin
to keep the promises of youth, Jules Bastien-Lepage died, leaving
masterpieces behind him, besides having liberated an artistic formula
from the tendencies and exaggerations which hampered it, and
indicated to the art of painting a new pathway along which his young
heirs are advancing with an assured step. He loved nature and truth;
he loved his own people, and no one ever lived who was surrounded
with a greater degree of affection; he inspired faithful friendships
which he himself enjoyed to the full; and those whom he left behind
soothe their heart-ache with the balm of tender memories; he
practised his art without ever making sacrifice to passing fashion or
sordid profit; there was no place in his mind or in his heart for any
other than noble and generous thoughts. Let us comfort ourselves,
therefore, for what his death has taken from us by the thought of
what his life has left to us, and let us assign him his place in the
ranks of the younger master painters who have been mown down in full
flower, close beside that of Géricault and of Henri Regnault."</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-25a66e20-ea43-f792-85fe-08c19efd7d84" style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 11pt;">In
1885 over 200 of his works were gathered from museums and private
collections and shown at the Ecole after his death. And in 1889 the
Paris Exposition showed some of his best works.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 11pt;">Zola
dubbed Bastien-Lepage the “grandson of Millet and Courbet”. And
certainly he had a pronounced influence on many painters after him.
Roger Fry credited the public’s wide acceptance of impression to
Bastien-Lepage. The works of George Clausen, Henry Herbert La
Tangue, and William Hankey are just a few artists who were
clearly heavily influenced by Bastien-Lepage’s work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-25a66de6-ea44-64bd-d3e9-c8ece9d081d0"> <img height="200" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Tf4sG2QqebNLh-T_MnWxVEltg3izoAQLY26SWtfLLxgcmd3NgJiE6maiXR71RoHgZINC969QkxQUvM3FRVi4Zi5O30s7dxmCr2d_h5WzNQCXlS2xpMnlKykIWgKWregQ" width="145" /> </span><img height="200" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/bETcUu_00iE7ghgxVg92sSeCi6zPDtmdTx_Xklms1rMC7iKBsncwBJnrRom3gtRj_AxzNdqP8r8tbLsy5ocOTyinJfV1hDmTQw75ENr5Ip5yokC3qn_WdIFGrJl3MqSP" width="167" /> <img height="149" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/nlYFFH8XZXYx0ADAfGGjhz0S5qkL4JYt_X8lw1qJJd-MKsYZ9t_y52bRBhKyw9kznliBOjdfce9fphUwKWgBurSyY4EFXBJYU2QOWskmMlC5bsKNMhBPwgROSF-gJUHF" width="200" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 11pt;">More
of Bastien-Lepage’s work</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/dn4BIkijK-LMaYVTsoFLX2kH4g-y08gRQJCcp46SKQF_T18swzqY197dIaiDD624N0moNhOeeByM-js_Xe9B42KGSoYvLYtbBcXc-7NQ7Itv_EPg39svVCt-27awapl5" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/dn4BIkijK-LMaYVTsoFLX2kH4g-y08gRQJCcp46SKQF_T18swzqY197dIaiDD624N0moNhOeeByM-js_Xe9B42KGSoYvLYtbBcXc-7NQ7Itv_EPg39svVCt-27awapl5" width="246" /></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-edef99ff-ea47-7637-cdcd-c8d3aed654f1"> <img height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/aS9swvongx_wM21rOii09nUoYkW_wxqrhUBiP1yhUIvfeigZQVohJotr2vhBUeIxTmAT9Zxv4m1-v_Xv7iU-C_pICj2GixoeU7yHcHu6LMPZRFdtcNAoqHN_UG8CStu7" width="295" /> </span> <img height="320" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZrA5Kc6BO7pE0VboKS_2Ck4SxTc9NMuWq-q5-dzsNuFMXY53fG5SWWzq1Y_-XwuvObOqOSJDFSXGtkoM5bbusQZvmzAJJFVv7cy0VoR2sf7B-C0DdsAk4mEdab4ez4ry" width="231" /> <img height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/iiplbEmoGT016U86dtfQYmjQ3-eDLZTPBig5p-y2bWBG_lR8HjsEdFEmSGlNJkf38FS8L9-h8MIwoALDuHTfONEoNN8veM2xZZ8Ug_4_yOE6_DebxEdfcXjzpcwa6hgK" width="283" /><img height="320" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mfLEsD3Gn82N8Dm5mCkNYK3wQJp74Xk2nIjo8V-6HlA9SILTfHL4L8aionuD4JEBsb66VtBRdIi0Zkdrnu96YjbosNiXyCRq6zvoDmM0fjdCTun9-R-1PS1JOgNj8pvZ" width="162" /> <img height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/50Tt8lttFjGwUfM9lj7yLD0BZg26fqrYCobg69VYQvgfFmf-79Z6NNPmUL3bOR4ZX7g8lfd150r5hWKJNKizcf8iGw2k2xwsH4ShIsxS-1YKCrz01nNnNa7PE2JVs_jv" width="245" /> <img height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/bPUPELmlm4NJSt35x4M6gzXsr_PJD8hKkRANJDjYh1lInlTGVAJsTRIH2bY2Ncfci5NIBt7M3k49vdOxwrv0fxqicXkq4xJUJ_Lc6O_Z6yaXfNZZalyhVk7fN0IWrnsg" width="231" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 11pt;">Plein
air studies</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-edef99a5-ea4a-2644-d519-d900da746a06"><img height="238" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/R79WJ7fcQlq_Mo2TC4cpWYIrVgviHAItciMUH1v2yiGK_OF33E7FwAImEMTS0Dt4n-sl15Y1IqUmo8T7aaQMD51nsTWTgNBYW5kMoDoSjtzwzlvV6t536V4vsH35dNPy" width="320" /> </span><img height="254" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/f6jFDCPq-2g-GolNIFniNg_Ghl_YBCuexWl5tLnV-wmkD8Mm1M0c0kNVvYf99ISB7jc6Axl2jb0s1Sab99TQTZecKUvl-O8dqjDMSfXGO7epSRVWgTN9LiGAWklJXhJX" width="320" /> <img height="248" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/dKQXprqKB_DtMcLTortpfH1kilEABIzKjx4S8vG33SpiOQRbhA1uydIH5cOdwRwb42cV9jlGXl8QtJYTTHy-dLHflZOhecWFXPVX4Rcq3VfGxsJJCvS8wzEKXg8EP1da" width="320" /> <img height="253" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/Ufbe0SJCxJPv2BerTQ1guhGuYfvXqDlzXoxYjNaO-VXXq1R5VpUtjb-jBlPJ-IVgSaR4cMbUanozzTjBqEB90nTHceWgYAXOCA7JjPUp8RfzDGk6spzQd_xbaJg6iPns" width="320" /> <img height="235" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/XDEnevACnXz1bjQ58OMPdBTM_HL2_YPMzaGMWEuyXjPM3gxO5LGkeHDLW9RMvHaRiXWnnr0RhB8uvdPhrJfAAwWdFcMlsd31gEq6Q8EldFobggfjqklXA2DMPTSId7HO" width="320" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Self
portraits</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">
</span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14.949999809265137px; text-align: justify;">Please note: I am not claiming to be any sort of expert on artists or art history. If you feel that I need to make a correction, please email me at katieliddiardart@gmail.com and I will rectify the problem as quickly as possible. The lectures in the CAS Lecture Series</span><i style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; line-height: 14.949999809265137px; text-align: justify;"> </i><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14.949999809265137px; text-align: justify;">are as much for me to learn from as I compile information as they are for other students. Thank you for your understanding. ~Katie</span>Katie J. Liddiardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01200202060642345490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278135880898802833.post-88836784841420430562014-03-07T08:24:00.003-08:002014-03-07T20:01:23.128-08:00Confidence vs. EgoI've always had a natural bend toward art. For as long as I can remember I've wanted to be a gallery artist. Something about having my work hanging on gallery walls for patrons to admire and purchase for their own walls seems somewhat glamorous to me. I took art classes all through grade school and college and was consistently top in my class. Praise from teachers, classmates, friends, and family encouraged me to keep pushing for more while gradually building in me a false sense that I absolutely knew how to draw and was on my way to figuring out paint. Though there was always the little voice in the back of my head that said I wasn't sure about my abilities, outward influences said I did. I was fortunate enough to have found the Florence Academy of Art while in college. When I saw what their students were producing I knew that I needed to get that education in order to produce the level of sophisticated, professional work that I had always envisioned for myself.<br />
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I applied to the Academy's Painting Program. I figured that I already knew how to draw, so no sense in starting from the beginning. After all, I had taken, like, a year of figure drawing. I mean, come on, how much can you really study on a figure? I had finished pieces within three hours. And the college actually purchased one of them. That had to mean something, right? I can only assume the knowing smile that would have come across Daniel Grave's face while he reviewed my application. Probably something of a "she thinks she knows what she's getting into, but from the work she's submitted, clearly she doesn't". Nonetheless, I was accepted into the Academy, though I can't deny my slight disappointment when I saw it was just into the Drawing Program. </div>
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On my first day at the academy I was set up onto a Bargue copy drawing by one of the student teachers. He gave me a basic five minute rundown of how to go about it and left me to my own devices. So I went to it. I had a finished drawing in two hours. What was so hard about this course, again? Okay, it wasn't <i>exactly </i>like the Bargue drawing, but where's the fun in complete fidelity to your subject anyway? I could only imagine what heights I would rise to within the academy. I would be top of the class, again. People would be looking to me for inspiration. I was the best... and then the student teacher came back in to give me my critique. Everything that I thought I was, everything I thought I had ever accomplished, all of the confidence vanished in 30 seconds. As Ryan Brown has so aptly named it, that was my donkey kick to the face. I was forced to start over on the drawing and I got a glimpse of all the things I didn't know. I was crushed. And that's exactly what I needed. I tried to justify in my mind that, no, I'm right. They just don't understand me and how I work. But I knew, deep down, that I was wrong all along. </div>
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After much contemplation over the lies I had built up in my head, I got back to work. I listened to critiques and tried to absorb as much as I could. I realized I had a long way to go, but I wasn't going to give up on my goals that easily. Though I was starting back at square one, relearning basic rules and principles of art, they were presented in a way that I had never heard of before but that made more sense. That was the start of the long road that I'm still on today of trying to understand truth, beauty, the necessity of art, and my own abilities in relation to those. </div>
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At the CAS we've seen many students come and go. Some just couldn't understand what we were trying to teach them, other's didn't want to understand. Egos are dangerous things that can get in the way of true knowledge. Telling a student to start over on a drawing today brings up those emotions I felt that day at the FAA a long time ago. Though their experience might be different, their egos are always slightly (sometimes not so slightly) crushed. Having the humility to not only physically, but mentally start over is a tough challenge. But the old saying of "whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger" seems to fit here. If the student is humble enough, they will overcome what ailed their thinking and come out a better artist than before. </div>
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Part of the problem of humbling a student is forcing them to see the mistakes they chose to make. The instructor cannot and should not explain every detail of every drawing and every problem that can arise before the student even starts it. If they did the student would be more confused and veer even more off track than if they are slowly guided through. However, this poses the problem of the student lashing out at the instructor for not warning them of the consequences should they make whatever decision that was incorrect. "Why didn't you tell me?" is a phrase that I have heard countless times around the studio. I've even thought it myself at times. But the fault is not with the instructor. No, it's in the student. The student must interpret what the instructor is teaching and that interpretation will reveal itself on the paper. Sometimes it's right. Sometimes it's wrong. But should a wrong decision be pointed out the student must be willing to step back and fix the problem instead of sweeping it to the back of their mind. The goal of the CAS, ultimately, is to give students all of the tools necessary to be self sufficient as an artist. If the student is unwilling to face their poor decisions they will always err toward mediocrity. We all have our blind spots. Teachers are there to help us overcome them. </div>
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In order to be truly great, we must continually study and be humble enough to change when we need to. Confidence in our work is a necessity for an artist, but we must be careful not build egos. True confidence only comes with understanding each decision you are making and the consequences of those decisions. Egos are built upon lies and naïvety. I am constantly shifting between confidence and insecurity in my own work. One day I may feel really great about a piece, the next I may want to rip it to shreds. This keeps me digging deeper to understand my decisions and how I can make better ones on the next piece. </div>
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I guess the moral of this story is to never be complacent with where you are if you want to be anything more than mediocre in any field. Not that there's anything wrong with mediocrity. I want to learn how to play the guitar and be able to understand the instrument and music. But I don't want to be a rock star. I don't even want to perform for anybody. I just want to be able to play for myself- I want mediocrity. But art is different. I want to be one of the best in the world, and the only way to do that is to be humble enough to overcome my weaknesses so I can accomplish more on every new piece. </div>
Katie J. Liddiardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01200202060642345490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278135880898802833.post-85418917918151174902013-12-02T12:13:00.001-08:002013-12-02T12:14:28.254-08:00CAS Fundraiser Sale<br />
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Katie J. Liddiardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01200202060642345490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278135880898802833.post-11017823220598562372013-11-05T13:55:00.000-08:002014-04-01T12:12:22.973-07:00William-Adolphe Bouguereau<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bouguereau began his artistic training in 1838, attending drawing lessons with Louis Sage, a former pupil of Jean-Dominique Ingres. His training was interrupted in 1841 after his father moved the family to Bordeaux and established a new business in olive oil. His father sent for his assistance, always hoping that his son would take over the family business, but both he and his father, much to his father’s disappointment, realized that Bouguereau was more interested in filling the ledgers with drawings than with paid receipts. William showed artistic talent early on and a client convinced his father to send him to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux. After working another job with a wine merchant, Bouguereau earned enough money to enter the École, where Jean-Paul Alaux, after some persuasion, moved Bouguereau to the advanced class. He was only able to study early in the morning and late at night because </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">he earned extra money by designing labels for jams and preserves during the day. </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nonetheless, in 1844, after only two years of part time study, he won first prize in figure painting for a depiction of St. Roch. </span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-209960fa-2a0b-509f-9c7b-af80c51c6286"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He supplemented his education by attending anatomical dissections and studied historical costumes and archeology. Bouguereau first exhibited at the Salon in 1849 at the age of 24 with Égalité devant la Mort (Equality Before Death) </span><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. He was chosen as a contestant for the Prix de Rome in 1848 (third of ten contestants), in 1849 (seventh of ten), and again in 1850, when he was the last of the ten competitors chosen. He was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1850, for his painting</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Zenobia Found by Shepherds on the Banks of the Araxes</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">, but it was in fact a kind of second prize, as Paul Baudry (1828-1886) had won more votes</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">. But because of the political upheaval and the July Monarchy being overthrown the prior year, there was no award given in 1849 and thus two awards were given in 1850. </span><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bouguereau traveled to Rome and stayed for four years at the Villa de Medici which is still owned by the French government and occupied by the French Academy. </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition to absorbing the lessons to be learned in Rome from antiquity and the work of Renaissance artists, he traveled throughout Italy to copy the masterpieces found in Orvieto, Assisi, Siena, Florence, Pisa, Ravenna, Venice, Parma, Naples, Pompeii, Capri, Bologna, Milan, and Verona. He also visited the hill towns and lakes around Rome Terni, Narni, Civita Castellana, Albano and Nemi, Castel Gandolfosites that had inspired landscapists since the seventeenth century.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Upon his return to Paris in early 1854 Bouguereau was awarded valuable </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">commissions in two areas, portraiture and decorative work. These opportunities for work came from both Paris and his hometown of La Rochelle where he had kept strong ties. Bouguereau continued to exhibit paintings (some of which had been painted in Rome) at the Salon, where they were received by the public with great favor. Because of his training at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and that institution's emphasis on paintings with themes drawn from mythological, classical, and biblical history, the subjects of Bouguereau's early Salon submissions were mostly somber and serious. Titles such as Combat of the Lapiths and Centaurs (1852; private collection)</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Le triomphe du martyre: Le corps de Sainte Cecile apporte dans les catacombes (The Triumph of the Martyr: The Body of Saint Cecilia Being Carried into the Catacombs) (1854).</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">William exhibited at the Paris Salon regularly. An early reviewer stated “Bouguereau has a natural instinct and knowledge of contour. The eurythmie of the human body preoccupies him. And in the recalling the happy results which in this genre, the ancients and the artists of the 16th century arrived at, one can only congratulate M. Bouguereau in attempting to follow their footsteps... Raphael was inspired by the ancients... and no one accused him of not being original.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">William was given these commissions early on which helped his fame. He made reproductions of his paintings like “The Annunciation”</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for patrons. He also did many private portraits which are still in private collections today. In 1856 the state commissioned him to paint Napoleon III in Napoléon III Visitant les Inondés de Tarascon (Napoleon III Visiting the Flood Victims of Tarascon), his only true attempt at contemporary historical painting.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through the exposure from the Salon, William’s fame extended to internationally by the 1860’s. He bought a house and studio in Montparnasse with his income.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">William used his influence to open many French art institutions for allowing women. He opened up his own studio to women and then the Academie Julien, then afterward the Ecole. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He has 826 paintings attributed to him. In the spring of 1905 his house and studio were burgled after a string of burglaries in the neighborhood. He died later that year on August 19 at the age of 79 from heart disease. His last Salon entry was the year of his death when he exhibited L’Océanide (Ocean Nymph).</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By the Academic community he was considered one of the greatest painters, even in his own time, though simultaneously reviled by the avant-garde. The avant-garde emerged at the dawn of the 20th century and their concentration was to rebel against tradition because newness was an end in itself. Bouguereau, Gerome, Cabanel, Meissonier, Bonnat, and Lefebvre were labeled as reactionaries to this new movement that started as impressionism and continued into Post impressionism and onward. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">The youthful artists blacklisted these artists. They had a cooperative press and a few wealthy patrons to back them up in their efforts. Bouguereau was unperturbed by the criticism as he continued to search for absolute beauty. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Detractors even slandered William’s name by spreading defamatory rumors. However, though the rumors were completely unfounded, he didn’t fight back so they were able to take root. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">His fame reached Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, and the U.S. He epitomized taste, refinement, and tradition. But to the avant-garde he represented a technician stuck in the past. The term “Bouguereaute” was coined by Degas and his associates as a derogatory term for any artistic style reliant on “slick and artificial surfaces” also known as a licked finish. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The renewal in interest about Bouguereau began with an exhibition in 1984 by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. It opened at the Musee du Petit-Palais in Paris, traveled to the Wadsworth Antheneum in Hartford, CT and concluded in Montreal. Then in 2000 Fred Ross founded the ARC who champions Bouguereau and who considers his work as “deserving of the highest accolades in the art world.</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Quotes by William:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Each day I go to my studio full of joy; in the evening when obliged to stop because of darkness I can scarcely wait for the next morning to come... If I cannot give myself to my dear painting I am miserable.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“One has to seek beauty and truth, Sir!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“One is born and artist. The artist is a man endowed with a special nature, with a particular feeling for seeing form and color spontaneously, as a whole, in perfect harmony. If one lacks that feeling, one is not an artist and will never become an artist; and it is a waste of time to entertain the possibility. This craft is acquired through study, observation, and practice; it can improve by ceaseless work. But the instinct for art is innate. First, one has to love nature with all one’s heart and soul, and be able to study and admire it for hours on end. Everything is in nature. A plant, a leaf, a blade of grass should be the subjects of infinite and fruitful meditations. For the artist a cloud floating in the sky has form, and the form affords him joy, helps him think.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“In painting, I am an idealist. I see only the beautiful in art and, for me, art is the beautiful. Why reproduce what is ugly in nature? I do not see why it should be necessary. Painting what one sees just as it is, no- or at least, not unless one is immensely gifted. Talent is all-redeeming and can excuse anything. Nowadays, painters go much too far, just as writers and realist novelists do. There is no way of telling where they’ll draw the line.</span></span></span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">”</span></div>
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If you feel that I need to make a correction, please email me at katieliddiardart@gmail.com and I will rectify the problem as quickly as possible. The lectures in the CAS Lecture Series<i> </i>are as much for me to learn from as I compile information as they are for other students. Thank you for your understanding. ~Katie</span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-2a42aec5-2a28-c06b-38e6-55cd3121deb0" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-2a42aec5-2a28-c06b-38e6-55cd3121deb0" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-2a42aec5-2a28-c06b-38e6-55cd3121deb0" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-2a42aec5-2a28-c06b-38e6-55cd3121deb0" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-2a42aec5-2a28-c06b-38e6-55cd3121deb0" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-2a42aec5-2a28-c06b-38e6-55cd3121deb0" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-2a42aec5-2a28-c06b-38e6-55cd3121deb0" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-2a42aec5-2a28-c06b-38e6-55cd3121deb0" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-2a42aec5-2a28-c06b-38e6-55cd3121deb0" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-2a42aec5-2a28-c06b-38e6-55cd3121deb0" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></div>
Katie J. Liddiardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01200202060642345490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278135880898802833.post-991130532862327502013-10-26T06:30:00.000-07:002013-10-26T07:16:48.381-07:00<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">The CAS has some big news! Ryan Brown, the director of the CAS, will be moving over to Paris by summer 2014 and will then open the school over there as early as October of that year! We're all super excited for this to happen and what it means for the growth of the school and curriculum for students.</span>Katie J. Liddiardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01200202060642345490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278135880898802833.post-56010396176174079032013-10-21T16:32:00.000-07:002013-10-26T07:14:24.843-07:00<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here's Katie Liddiard's recap lecture of her experience in Switzerland as a part of the Alpine Fellowship</span><br />
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<a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/D2_HeN6LBx8AqsKhrlFM0At9a-L94jQB3U3k5GgLZCaGybXiYzb8FrQuYwubXplGArlPFCEzj-FA5eKIVhQWFXxm2hjaiVKePrZ5oPRzr0wrzxlGzKhlft0dp88E" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="257" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/D2_HeN6LBx8AqsKhrlFM0At9a-L94jQB3U3k5GgLZCaGybXiYzb8FrQuYwubXplGArlPFCEzj-FA5eKIVhQWFXxm2hjaiVKePrZ5oPRzr0wrzxlGzKhlft0dp88E" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was high on the environment with everybody and everything encouraging me to keep going, but that made me think about home and the environment here and my seeming lack of motivation. I’ll get back to that in a minute. </span></span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1; white-space: pre-wrap;">One morning I went out drawing with Andreas Birath, the director of the Florence Academy of Art in Sweden. I quickly gained a great respect for him, as a painter and as someone who constantly thinks about painting and teaching, and someone who is very humble. He related a story to another student, Amy, and I that day: the Russian hockey team a few years back was the best in the world. Not just by a little bit, but by a lot. Every single day they practiced at least 5 hours a day. And every person on the team both on and off the ice put forth 100% every single time. They won the world championship easily, but that didn't stop them from working harder, perfecting their techniques, and always pushing for more. All day, every day. If there was even one person putting in 95% instead of 100% then they were stealing away time and energy from the rest of the team. That person would immediately be weeded out because the team didn't want to be dragged down by people who weren't as committed as they were.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is why I felt it so important to teach more and add more to the studio. I need to take steps to add to the atmosphere that I'd like to be a part of. Ryan has been trying to tell me for years that I need to be an example to the newer students, but I'm sorry to say I'm a slow learner. However, I finally get it, and I want to be someone who helps boost the school to it's full potential. We all have the potential to be amazing artists, but we all need to help each other in order to achieve our goals. This little community that we've created for ourselves is pretty amazing given our surroundings. But we can and need to do more.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don’t know if you guys have ever felt this, but for a long time I was concerned that I didn't really have what it takes to be a great artist. I felt that I didn't have enough passion, enough drive to accomplish the skill level that I need to have in order to achieve the goals I have for myself. I felt like I would get distracted too easily. I still do, to be honest. I lack the discipline I really need, though it's something I'm constantly working on. I recently read an article that eased my fears and made me believe that this is where I belong:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One day while I was working out in the gym, there was a coach visiting who had worked with thousands of athletes over his long career, including some nationally-ranked athletes and Olympians.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But then he said something I wasn’t expecting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At some point,” he said, “it comes down to who can handle the boredom of training every day and doing the same lifts over and over and over again.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That piece of advice surprised me because it’s a different way of thinking about work ethic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Most of the time people talk about getting motivated and “amped up” to work on their goals. Whether it’s business or sports or art, you will commonly hear people say things like, “it all comes down to having enough passion.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As a result, I think many people get depressed when they lose focus or motivation because they think that successful people have some unstoppable passion and willpower that they seem to be missing. But that’s exactly the opposite of what this coach was saying.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Instead, he was saying that really successful people feel the same boredom and the same lack of motivation that everyone else feels. They don’t have some magic pill that makes them feel ready and inspired every day. But the difference is that the people who stick with their goals don’t let their emotions determine their actions. Top performers still find a way to show up, to work through the boredom, and to embrace the daily practice that is required to achieve their goals.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">According to him, it’s this ability to do the work when it’s not easy that separates the top performers from everyone else. That’s the difference between professionals and amateurs.</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I think that because we all go home every night, places that are extremely comfortable for us, it's easy to get bored and distracted. Most of us haven't removed ourselves to places where our sole reason to be there is to learn more about our trade. When you're in a place like that your mindset is completely different. You tell yourself that this is it. You have nothing to do than improve your skills. It's quite luxurious despite how much money it usually takes to put yourself in that sort of situation. I've been fortunate enough to experience that three times in my life. Every time I'm able to get more out of the experience than the time before. This last time really amped me up. I hounded Ryan over email about how I didn't want to come home because it felt lifeless and uninspiring here. This is one of the emails I sent in annoyance:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">People stay up late to talk art, work together to figure certain problems out, encourage each other in moments of doubt, etc. that we just don't get at home. Sure, part of it is the logistics of it all. Almost everyone here is under the same roof, eat the same meals at the same time, drink wine together, or whatever else that we don't have in Utah. But I still see no reason why we can't have late night chats. Why we all have to be separate from one another when we should all be working together for a common goal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I can't feel artistically dead anymore. I need to feel inspired in order to create pieces that I feel are truly worth creating. I can't rely on my surroundings to dictate inspiration because it won't come from Utah. So I have to create it.</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Despite the CAS being in “Art City” a lot of our supposed ideas that we teach at this school are pretty radical in the art community here. Though we, as a group, prove that there is a want and a need for this education here. What we make of the school here will only help to magnify the school in Paris where it ultimately belongs. Let's all help each other. Let's all share ideas. Let's all be awesome friends. In the Ecole des Beaux Arts there was a definite ranking system that they held to. We've joked several times about it in this school with the Massier and the Rapine, but I don't actually want that sort of atmosphere in here. I am no better than anyone else in this room who works as hard for what they say they want. I'm trying to be more open to critiques from everyone, not just Ryan because everyone has a different point of view. I can learn from all of you even though I'm close to the end of my formal education here. You all have something to offer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The future of representational art is high according to certain philosophers, publishers, and painters. Everyone in the art community on both sides of modernism and representationalism is feeling the shift. Though work that we call silly and thoughtless is still claiming millions of dollars at auctions, work that we hail as good art is catching up. The collectors will start to change their preferences and it's entirely possible that we could see contemporary representational artists making millions, consistently, their own lifetime. Work is finally being created that people can and should relate to. Though the road ahead is long and rocky, I'm in it for the long haul. I truly want to change the world, but I can't do it alone, obviously. We are stronger as a group. I have fought against this idea for a while because I didn't want to be tied to anyone else or a school of thought. I wanted to be me and make my own name for myself. Be little miss independent. But I've recently changed my thought about this. Groups that think alike are able to have more of a voice because they are able to focus each other and lift each other up to their full potential. I want people to know where I come from and when they think of me they think of all of my friends or vice versa. The masters of the 19th century were constantly talking to and critiquing each other. Sharing ideas and techniques. I got a taste of that in Switzerland and it was amazing. I don't want to lose that because now I'm home. We can and should create an atmosphere of openness, acceptance, and ultimately producing great work. People will start to listen once we have the work to back up our claims. </span></span></div>
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Katie J. Liddiardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01200202060642345490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278135880898802833.post-55548726468537190232012-03-02T09:44:00.001-08:002013-10-26T09:15:38.187-07:00<div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small;">Harold challenges us to <i>see</i> what it is that we're drawing. Anyone can look at a rose, but the artist must <i>see</i> how the light hits the petals in different degrees of brightness. Or how the color isn't just a gradient from light to dark. Or the delicacy of it. Or the texture of every part. Or the naturally occurring rhythms. The artist must see what the laymen only glimpses. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small;">The Impressionists seemed to recreate how to see, how to paint. Strokes of pure color were laid down side by side to create the desired effect of light on objects. But what they forgot as they did their studies was the strength of drawing. Everything was flat on the picture plane. Nothing was rendered or turned as form. So though their new way of seeing objects as they actually appear on the retina was groundbreaking, it's not how our mind perceives the world around us. We are able to see depth and form because we have two eyes. So the artist is challenged with the task of making a two dimensional object (the canvas) an illusion of three dimensions. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small;">There are several ways of going about this. Mr. Speed insists that the student must study both line and mass drawing at the same time in order to eventually weave the techniques together and thus more fully get the natural effect of how we perceive objects. At the CAS we focus more on mass drawing as it relates more to paint, but we must not forget the power that the line can hold in drawings. Rhythms, strength, and expression are all embedded in a properly placed line while masses contain atmosphere and solidity. Both are crucial to an accurately represented drawing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small;">The fear of nearing what we actually see in nature is that our drawings become lifeless. The closer we get to nature, the farther away we get from the emotions that either the artist or the subject emanate because the artist is more concerned with technical accuracy and not with how the subject "feels". While it is imperative that the student study how to accurately represent whatever is placed before him, it is just as imperative that the student remember what it is that makes him want to be an artist in the first place. Being able to express one's self is what art is about, but it's very easy to lose sight of emotion in favor of accuracy as you go through your studies. Therefore, having the discipline to work on one's own time without the fear of critiques would be advantageous. (Not that I have the authority to say these things as my own discipline tends to lack at times.) If the student always keeps a sketch book with him and uses it at every spare moment, the life of the world around him will fill it up. It's hard to have static figures in a two minute sketch. And sometimes I need to take my own advice. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small;">~Katie Liddiard </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There has been a lot of discussion on what is art and
what makes an art piece true art. It is interesting the public
has longed for and craved excellence from antiquity. Watch any sport
and the best athletes are admired, envied, and copied. Books are
written and movies are made about the best of the best. The best of the
best truly inspires.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Recently an artist stretched primed canvas and laid
them on the floor in an art gallery and the controversy flew on whether
or not this was real art. It is interesting the canvases were put on
the ground. What we usually find on the ground is discarded and deemed
as garbage, picked up and thrown away. Something of real value is never
left on the ground where it can be walked upon, or something spilled on
it, or ends up covered in dust.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> If you want to be successful in anything, find someone
successful, find out how they became successful, and do exactly what
they did to become successful. Think of golf legends, or basketball,
football, or basketball legends. Many a child studies about them and
dreams about becoming as good as they are.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> As a child I would spend hours in the encyclopedia (this
gives my era away) pouring over paintings by Goya, Velaquez, Rembrandt, etc. These paintings were alive to me. It seemed as if I could reach
into the photo and touch the fabrics and or the hands or faces of the
subjects in them. I marveled that someone could make silk fabric read
as silk fabric with paint. The flesh looked alive. How did the
artist render that? What did they know in order to achieve greatness?<br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> In college, one of my art teachers talked about what
she believed would bring an inexperienced artist to fame and fortune.
She believed there had to be some knowledge of the basics, but the
artist had to be on the edge, a trend maker. The art of the past was
just that-the past. The wheel had to be re-invented. The William
Bouguereaus, Velasquezes, Rembrandts, they had had their day. Why would
you ever think to become like them? This goes back to my thought-find a
highly successful person and do exactly what they did to become as
good.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Harold Speed in his book The Practice and Science of
Drawing describes what it takes to accomplish what the best of the best
artists achieved. This book is not a one time read for the aspiring
artist. Every time I read it I am in a different place and I find
something new to apply. He speaks about art schools producing only
academic students. "It has been the cry for some time that Schools of
Art turned out only academic students. And one certainly associates a
dead level of respectable mediocrity with much school work. We can call
to mind a lot of dull, lifeless, highly-finished work, imperfectly
perfect (which in my opinion is what a lot of art nonsense is happening
now, and is supposedly the beauty of it) that has won the prize in many a
school competition...<br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> But perhaps the chief mistake in Art Schools has been
that they have too largely confined themselves to training students
mechanically to observe and portray the thing set before them to copy,
an antique figure, a still-life group, a living model sitting as still
and lifeless as he can. Now this is all very well as far as it goes,
but the real matter of art is not necessarily in all this. And if the
real matter of art is neglected too long the student may find it
difficult to get in touch with it again."<br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> There lies the difference, mediocrity or greatness.
Sometimes with recognition artists believed they have achieved and their
education ends. They believe they have arrived to greatness, but lay
their work side by side one of the master artist's work and their
weaknesses are glaring. <br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> It takes real humility to recognize one's faults and
weaknesses. It takes real strength and perseverance to do something
about it. I am speaking to me as well as to you the reader. There is
something noble in the struggle from mediocrity-to good-to great. I love
"to dream the impossible dream," and then to strive to achieve it.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">~Laurie Bell</span><br />
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Katie J. Liddiardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01200202060642345490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278135880898802833.post-44792179520279239842012-02-23T14:48:00.003-08:002013-10-26T09:15:22.749-07:00<div>
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Practice-Science-Drawing-Harold-Speed/dp/1619492377/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330385122&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;"><u>Practice and Science of Drawing</u></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5278135880898802833" target="_blank">, Harold Speed</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">“The emotional side is beyond the scope of teaching...all you can do is surround [students] with the conditions calculated to stimulate any natural feeling they may possess...by familiarising the students with the best works of art and nature.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">I've been mulling around the idea recently of the development of taste in society. How do we come to recognize truly masterful works, or even tasteful ones, much less create them ourselves? In the quote above, Speed offers an answer: surround ourselves with the best we have and in us will grow understanding and discernment.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">Having been burned once in the university system where the modernist movement was lauded as a seminal event in the progress of the arts and where previous works and achievements were passed over or even scorned, I am skeptical of what I am told are the best works. The art world today seems so divided, that if asked to identify the greatest artists, each faction of a different answer. The abstract expressionists would name Rothko, Pollock and Brancusi; impressionists, Monet and Degas; we Academics, Bouguereau and Gerome. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">I echo the reaction I have heard from many outside the art world who are disenchanted with art today, "Where are the standards by which we are to judge, and who creates them?" Though I identify more with the academics and impressionists than any other group, I am unwilling to say that those in the 19th century had all of the answers, and take only the few masters from that era as models. But who else? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">Speed does make a few statements on the subject which resonated with me:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">- “Art for art’s sake,” and “art for subject’s sake,”...neither position can neglect the other without fatal loss.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">- “...whether they are good or poor artists will depend on the quality of their feeling and the fitness of its expression.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">-“Great things are only done in art when the creative instincts of the artist has a well-organized executive faculty at its disposal”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">Taken together, I understand his point to be that artists who are worthy of our study are those who have refined both their intuitive and feeling natures, as well as the technical skills involved in relaying those feelings to others. Mastery and balance. I can buy into that. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">Even with some clear criteria, finding "the best" work off all of the centuries and all the cultures past and present - is quite a task! One which Speed points out is a unique challenge to the modern generations. "Not only European art, but the art of the East...is part of the formative influence by which [the student] is surrounded; not to mention the modern science of light and colour...no wonder that a period of artistic indigestion is upon us. Hence the student has need of sound principles and a clear understanding of the science of his art, if he would select from this mass of material those things which answer to his own inner need for artistic expression.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">So, as we recover from our bought of indigestion, Speed offers a beautiful analogy that has brought me a good deal of hope: "The position of art to-day is like that of a river where many tributaries meeting at one point, suddenly turn the steady flow to turbulence...After a time, these newly-met forces will adjust themselves to the altered condition, and a larger, finer stream be the result. The hope of the future is that a larger and deeper art, answering to the altered conditions of humanity will result.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">I feel, with so many students asking similar questions - trying to make some kind of order out of the masses of information and opinions available - that we are on our way to achieving that "larger and deeper art" - and, like Speed, I look forward to the future. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">~Emily Taylor</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;"> I've
always enjoyed reading Harold Speed. He has a sense of humor that
whether he meant to put into his writing or not makes reading the
material he presents enjoyable. He was also, clearly, an educated man.
He was able to put into words what I've felt at times not knowing how to
describe it. He's one man whom, were he still alive, I would love to
have lunch with and just pick his brain to attempt to gain a drop of
knowledge from his reservoir. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">One
thing that I've been thinking about for a while now is why it is that
we do what we do. As artists, I mean. Why do we feel the need to copy
nature and hang it on a wall? We can talk about technique,
draftsmanship, form, line, mass, etc., but what does it all mean? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">"The
visual blindness of the majority of people is greatly to be deplored,
as nature is ever offering them on their retina, even in the meanest
slum, a music of colour and form that is a constant source of pleasure
to those who can see it. But so many are content to use this wonderful
faculty of vision for utilitarian purposes only. It is the privilege of
the artist to show how wonderful and beautiful is all this music of
colour and form, so that people, having been moved by it in his work,
may be encouraged to see the same beauty in the things around them.<i>This is the best argument in favour of making art a subject of general education: that it should teach people to see</i>." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">How
concise. It's practically the old cliche "stop and smell the roses."
Taking a moment in life to enjoy the simple beauty that is everywhere in
our every day routine. And shouldn't everybody be given the opportunity
to be taught the ability to do so? The painter purposefully takes from
nature that which moves him to feel something and puts it on canvas in
the hope that someone else will feel something similar through it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: small;">Having
the power to implement a certain feeling into someone else is something
that should not be taken lightly. Art has traditionally been used for
the uplifting of society, but modern artists often times seem to feel
the need for more of a shock factor than actual deep emotion and value.
And society has responded. If asking strangers on the street what good
art is, how many people could come up with a definite answer? Yet, back
in the 19th century, art was criticized harshly by the public if it
didn't meet certain standards of quality in both technicality and
emotion perceived. I feel, personally, that it's about time that we
re-educate the public by first putting values in our work. Work on a
higher level than our contemporaries so that the difference will be
clear to the viewer. Once society learns to see the difference between
"modern" art- art which holds a facade of pure emotion and if you don't
"get" it then you just aren't looking hard enough- and art rooted in
nature, tradition, hard work, mastery, values, and emotion, I believe we
will see a better society overall. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">~Katie Liddiard</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">“An act of vision is not so simple a
matter as the student who asked her master if she should “paint
nature as she saw nature” would seem to have thought. And his
answer, “Yes, madam, provided you don't see nature as you paint
nature,” expressed the first difficulty the student of painting has
to face: the difficulty of learning to see.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">There is the crux of the matter.
What am I supposed to see? The first tendency to see too much, or
to fall in love with the darkest shadows. It can be putting down too
much information too soon. Goldilocks, “not too much, not too
little, but just right.” I see what I want to see. Even if I see
“it”, putting it on paper accurately is a whole new challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">I am training my eye to see the
hierarchy of importance. Which is why I am here in CAS, to
understand exactly what is important and when.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">~Laurie Bell </span><br />
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