One of the great things about the internet is you can find an image of just about any work of art ever made. This is also one of the bad things about the internet, because people decide why should I go to a museum when I can just google it? Well, because a few pixels spread across a computer screen is not the same experience as standing where the Master stood as he/she applied the paint to the canvas. The National Art Gallery in Washington, DC has a collection of Andrew Wyeth’s paintings and sketches having to do with windows…
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Google’s Art Project
Dear old Mom wanted to be an Artist when she grew up. She took one of those mail order courses where you draw a turtle and bought a lot of books containing the Works of The Masters. She sketched three things a day, and yet, she never got past that kind of middle school phase where her work looked ok, but never looked exactly like Art. I went through a small Artist phase myself, sketching and drawing and never becoming any better. The Wife went to college and studied Art. She painted mostly abstracts on 3×4 foot canvases, with an…
Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth 1917-2009 Andrew Wyeth was one of the last great American artists-his work was often confusing, but you could look at it and see that it was meant to be something. This was a rare thing in art after Picasso took the world by storm and whole generations of artists decided that random dots and lines and swirls could be considered great art. There are still great artists, they are just not making the kind of art that I tend to like. N.C. Wyeth, Andrews father, now that was great art. Of course, N.C Wyeth was not considered a…