There Are No Rules
Wed, Dec 28 2011 11:22
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Simply Inspired #3, 11.5 x 9" acrylic ink & acrylic pencil, Susan Giannantonio
"There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about." - Helen Frankenthaler
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That All Important First Glance
Mon, Feb 14 2011 10:58
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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 Bonnardoil on canvas, 40 x 38 1/2"
The Notes are All There
Wed, Sep 29 2010 10:46
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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
Sun, Aug 1 2010 12:35
| watercolor, "Winslow Homer", painting
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"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
*courtesy the Brooklyn Museum, used with permission
What Is My Voice?
Fri, Jul 23 2010 09:10
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Chromatic Variations, Susan Giannantonio
"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