That All Important First Glance

 

 Table in Front of the Window, Pierre Bonnard, 1934,

oil on canvas, 40 x 38 1/2"

“What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.” --Pierre Bonnard

The Notes are All There

Symphony in White No. 3, James Abbott McNeill Whistler

"Nature contains all the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music.  But the artist is born to pick and choose and group with science, the elements, that the result may be beautiful." -JAM Whistler, "The Ten O'Clock Lecture 1885"

Blown Away

Blown Away, Winslow Homer*

"I have learned two or three things in my years of experience...One is, never paint a blue sky." When asked why, Homer replied, "Why, because it looks like the devil, that's all.  Another thing; a horizon is horrible-that straight line!" --"Watercolors by Winslow Homer, the Color of Light," Tedeschi
*courtesy the Brooklyn Museum, used with permission

What Is My Voice?

Chromatic Variations, Susan Giannantonio

30 x 22" watermedia collage on paper (sold)

Giclee art print available on Amazon.com

"What's my voice?" has to be asked by each individual artist. Committee-free, the artist needs to develop her voice as if on an island. To be a voice is to be a different voice, set apart, unique. How to find it? Go to your island, put in long hours, fall in love with process--your voice will come out of your work.--Robert Genn's Twice Weekly Newsletter for 7/23/2010

To Live Out Loud

Subito, Susan Giannantonio

40 x 30" watermedia collage on canvas (sold)

Announcing "Subito", my 6th painting featured by music publisher Simply Violin. (www.simplyviolin.com).  "Subito" will soon be released on a collection of music arranged for youth orchestras.  "I am an artist....I am here to live out loud." --Emile Zola

Play with Purpose

Color is No Object, Susan Giannantonio

"Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."  Pablo Picasso

The Music of Painting

The Striped Blouse, Edouard Vuillard

"Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is no art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows, etc. It is this that one calls the music of painting."--Vuillard, Jan. 1894