Impressionism....Paul cezanne

Paul Cezanne

Well ahead of his time in the arts.

I have been reading about Paul Cezanne life. Why does art cause so my depression???

He was one of the first in the Impressionists movement, but still had no real success until after years of painting and again once he died.

Why does art create a temperament in painters that they become emotional and filled with self doubt?

It made me sad to read that his life was filled with such despair and sadness.

He is one of my favorite painters.

Here is a gallery of his paintings.

Please enjoy

 

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-701-1&va=paul+cezanne+paintings

 

Today would be a good day to do a still life painting.

Pick one of Cezanne's or create your own set up.

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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Art for the Heart....Jackson Pollock

Art for the Heart.......

Red and Black Hearts, Jean Hart, www.zazzle.com/jeanhar1*

It's about this time of year I start to think I should be paintings hearts for Valentines.

I gave myself a little challenge to paint for an exhibit called,

"I'm a Fool for Love"

It will be full of hearts and love and lots of emotion.

I came across this painting I did some years ago. It must have been during my Jackson Pollock period.

Viewing Jackson Pollock paintings you would think that he just leaves the paint to fly across the canvas with no real thought to where its going to land.

But, no, he paints with intention and his works are filled with cathartic emotions energy.

His techniques are from dripping, to splattering and pour paint onto the canvas. Sometimes he uses sand or glass to add texture to his paintings. Later his technique came to be known as Action Painting.

For me this technique was very hard. My mind would not let me be that free and my paintings ended up with recognizable shapes.

So today's challenge is to let yourself be free to drip, splatter, and pour.

It is lots of fun.

Be Inspired,
~Jean

P.S. Some of Jackson Pollocks most famous paintings are: The key, 1946, Number One, 1950 Greyed Rainbow, 1953
 

Sometimes a Pear is just a Pear

Happy New Year 2013

Abundance, mixed med. Jean Hart

 

I'm looking forward to a great year of love, luck, prosperity and, good health.

But just in case here is how I will be signing the date this year.

The number 4 is considered unlucky in Chinese Feng Shui because the number sounds like the word for “death”. To avoid the number 4 don't write a two digit year because 13 adds up to 4 (1+3=4). Instead write 2013 as the number 6 is good for family harmony, prosperity and joy.

Traveling is always on my list of things to do and just last November I went to Santa Fe, New Mexico. It took me four years to get there. I kept making plans and it just didn't work out. Finally, on the Universes time, not my time, I got there.

I loved it, the sights, the sounds, the food, all of it.

We took a day to walk around the town and visit museums and missions.

One of the best places I visited was Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.

When I went I was not so interested in her. But after an afternoon spent in her Museum I am now her biggest fan. It's not so much her artwork but it's her attitude I admire.

She is a Master of abstraction art, starting as a modern artist.

Everyone knows her for her big flowers. Few know that she spent time in Texas to teach elementary school art classes.

When she felt people were reading too much into her flowers and made her out to be more sexual then she had in mind when painting her flowers, she started painting pears.....because she said,"no one can read anything into a pear. Sometimes a pear is just a pear."

I connected to her paintings of the land and her simple lines.

If you are in Santa Fe I recommend that you visit her museum, it is well worth the time.

 The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 217 Johnson Street.

www.okeeffemuseum.org

Pear, acrylic, Jean Hart
Be Inspired,
~Jean
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A sea shell by the sea shore

A sea shell by the sea shore, Jean Hart

The Golden Ratio

"If there is a God, he's a great mathematician." Paul Dirac

You see this pattern everywhere in nature.

You see this pattern in art too.

What makes one painting more beautiful than another?

The answer may surprise you.

It's Math!!!

Getting a painting to hold the right proportions is what has inspired artists for centuries.

Proportions is what holds a painting together to create the beauty and balance of a master piece.

The Golden Ratio

as quoted from CKG

"One of the easiest ways to define the Golden Ratio is through the famous sequence of numbers named after the mathematician Fibonacci. See if you you can identify the pattern in the following set of numbers: 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34....

Each number is the sum of the previous two numbers. When you divide any of the numbers by the one before it, you get roughly the same number, , and the value becomes increasingly refined as the numbers get larger."

Well there you have it.

Here is my challenge for today.

See how many things in nature you can find that has this pattern and ratio in it.

Start by really looking at flowers, shells, cones, the most common is the spiral itself.

 We have talked about symbols and so it is the spiral too has a meaning.

Spiral: A symbol of change and forward motion. It means growth and progress.

So as the New Year arrives, 2013 will begin and on this New Years Eve day I'm going to make a spiral in honor of bring in the New Year.

2013 the year of the water snake
digital artwork by
Jean Hart

 

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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