All ten third grade artists recently completed "Junglescapes", inspired by His great works and the "primitive" French artist, Henri Rousseau. Their artwork is currently displayed in the Front Hall Gallery.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Junglescapes
All ten third grade artists recently completed "Junglescapes", inspired by His great works and the "primitive" French artist, Henri Rousseau. Their artwork is currently displayed in the Front Hall Gallery.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Art Minute: Happy Birthday GRANT WOOD!
Grant Wood (February 13, 1891 – February 12, 1942) was an American painter, born in Anamosa, Iowa. He is best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly the painting American Gothic, an iconic image of the 20th century.
Wood painted American scenes and subjects during the first half of the 20th century in a simplified style reminiscent of American folk art. Like poet Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, Wood wished to tell and preserve stories of the American Revolution.
Longfellow wrote his poem 88 years after the event when he found letters belonging to his grandfather, who had known Revere. Only a few people who had been children during the Revolution were still alive in 1860 when he wrote Paul Revere's Ride. Wood based his 1931 painting on Longfellow's heroic poem with no attempt to make it historically accurate.
Wood painted American scenes and subjects during the first half of the 20th century in a simplified style reminiscent of American folk art. Like poet Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, Wood wished to tell and preserve stories of the American Revolution.
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Grant Wood, 1931
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
".....A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo forevermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beat of that steed,
And the midnight-message of Paul Revere."
From the poem, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1860
Longfellow wrote his poem 88 years after the event when he found letters belonging to his grandfather, who had known Revere. Only a few people who had been children during the Revolution were still alive in 1860 when he wrote Paul Revere's Ride. Wood based his 1931 painting on Longfellow's heroic poem with no attempt to make it historically accurate.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Art Minute: Happy Birthday Norman Rockwell!
Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine for more than four decades.
"As a commercial illustrator, he was peerless, and many people’s objections to his work have to do with the pieties they imagine he wanted to force-feed everyone. His sin was finding the beauty in mainstream culture, and casting a calm cool approving gaze over the ordinary things ordinary people did". -James Lileks
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