This event has been changed.Changed: MSC Paint Out class---Bayview Historical SocietyChanged: Come out to plein air paint with me in a class on July 25, 2017, Bayview Historical Society at 2590 S. Superior St. Milwaukee
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Sunday, July 23, 2017
Updated Invitation: MSC Paint Out class---Bayview Historical Society @ Tue Jul 25, 2017 5:30pm - 8:30pm (CDT) (judith_reidy.classes@blogger.com)
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Historic Third Ward Gallery Night and Day Plein Air Competition - Chance to Win - Judith Reidy Studio News - Upcoming Classes, Events and Exhibitions
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Elements of Design Lesson 3, Part 1
There are seven elements of Design. We discussed them in class twice this summer.
As you may know I had a wonderful learning apportunity to study with Derek Davis this summer for several hours up in Cedarburg. He is an experienced and award winning artist who has given much thought to painting.
Even though he is primarily an oil painter, he recommended two watercolor teachers because of their excellent instruction on artist intent and composition. They were Edgar Whitney and Tony Couch. One particular book by Tony Couch called "You Can Do It." I reccomend that book to you. I purchased mine on Amazon at a very reasonable price....under $10.
If you were in class you should be able to answer these questions below. HOWEVER if you were not in class you could get the answers and an explaination from those students who came to class and took notes. Or you could get the book and read it yourself.
No matter what you have a chance to win a free weekend workshop.
As you may know I had a wonderful learning apportunity to study with Derek Davis this summer for several hours up in Cedarburg. He is an experienced and award winning artist who has given much thought to painting.
Even though he is primarily an oil painter, he recommended two watercolor teachers because of their excellent instruction on artist intent and composition. They were Edgar Whitney and Tony Couch. One particular book by Tony Couch called "You Can Do It." I reccomend that book to you. I purchased mine on Amazon at a very reasonable price....under $10.
If you were in class you should be able to answer these questions below. HOWEVER if you were not in class you could get the answers and an explaination from those students who came to class and took notes. Or you could get the book and read it yourself.
No matter what you have a chance to win a free weekend workshop.
Sunday, July 16, 2017
Invitation: Judith Reidy invites you to the Exhibition for Gallery Ni... @ Sat Jul 22, 2017 10am - 4pm (CDT) (judith_reidy.classes@blogger.com)
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Judith Reidy invites you to the Exhibition for Gallery Night and Day Plein Air Painting Competition
Hope you came and watched the Artists in the Plein Air Event in the Third Ward this past week.
NOW you are invited to ..... -Art Exhibition: Open to the Public July 21, 6:30-8 PM to Saturday, July 22. 4 pm at the Hudson Business Lounge 310 E. Buffalo St., Milwaukee, WI I will be there at around 4 pm and would love to see you. If you like we can browse the galleries and catch dinner with our friends. If you contact me ahead I will make sure to look for you! Hope to see you, Judith
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Updated Invitation: Judith Reidy invites you to the Reception for Gallery Nig... @ Fri Jul 21, 2017 5pm - 8pm (CDT) (judith_reidy.classes@blogger.com)
This event has been changed.Judith Reidy invites you to the Reception for Gallery Night and Day Plein Air Painting CompetitionChanged: Hope you came and watched the Artists in the Plein Air Event in the Third Ward this past week. NOW you are invited to ..... at the I hope you can come. I will be there till a little after 7 pm then I plan on dinner with you my friends. Will be looking for you! Judith
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Friday, July 14, 2017
Lesson #2 Part 2 What does I mean to be an artist? Edward Hopper
In the previous article we thought about what it may mean to be an artist and finding your artist voice. I discussed my thoughts about finding my" voice" as well as shared the opinions of others. One particular article by Jerry Saltz I suggested that you read in order for you to get a handle on how one artist managed his career as an artist.
Today I want to look at the work of a particular artist named Edward Hopper. Edward Hopper is known as a Social Realist by some but a title he himself dismissed.
Edward Hopper quotes:
regarding Great Art and personal vision....
"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world… …The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm."
More of me comes out when I improvise.
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."
In: 'Statements by Four artists', Edward Hopper, in 'Reality' 1., Spring 1953, p. 8
"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."
"Originality is neither a matter of inventiveness nor method, it is the essence of personality."
Selden Rodman, 'Conversations with Artists' Capricorn Books, New York, 1961
Though I studied with w:Robert Henri, I was never a member of the Ash-Can School. You see, it had a sociological trend which didn’t interest me. [Hopper then proceeded to inform Kuh that his work contained no social content whatsoever]
In: 'Edward Hopper' (1962), Katherine Kuh, in 'The Artist’s Voice: Interviews with Artists' New York: Harper and Row, 1962:140
regarding Painting....
"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
More of me comes out when I improvise.
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."
- I do not know why I chose one subject rather than another unless I believe them to be the best synthesis of my inner experience.
- Floyd Goodrich 'Edward Hopper' H. Abrams, New York 1971
- It is hard for me to know what to paint. It comes slowly.
- quoted by Gail Levin 'Edward Hopper - an intimate biography' (1995)
- It takes a long time for an idea to strike.
- quoted by Sheena Wagstaff 'Edward Hopper' Tate Publishing (2004)
- The whole answer is there on the canvas.
- Answer to journalists -quoted by Sherry Maker 'Edward Hopper '(1990)
- The man's the work. Something does not come out of nothing.
- Answer to journalists -quoted by Avis Berman -Article ' Hopper, the Supreme American Realist of the 20th Century' Smithsonian Magazine June 2007
- Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
- Comment on his 'Early Sunday Morning' (1930)
- The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
- In: 'statement by the Chairman of the Jury', Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1951, p. 7
- I wish I could paint more.. I do dozens of sketches for oils.. if I do one that interests me I go on to make a painting but that happens only two or three times a year.
In 1930, his painting House by the Railroad (1925; Museum of Modern Art, New York)
was the first work to be acquired for the collections of the newly founded Museum of Modern Art. This image embodied the characteristics of Hopper’s style: clearly outlined forms in strongly defined lighting, a cropped composition with an almost “cinematic” viewpoint, and a mood of eerie stillness.
He was by then celebrated for his highly identifiable mature style, in which urban settings, New England landscapes, and interiors are all pervaded by a sense of silence and estrangement (
25.31.2). His chosen locations are often vacant of human activity, and they frequently imply the transitory nature of contemporary life. At deserted gas stations, railroad tracks, and bridges, the idea of travel is fraught with loneliness and mystery (
37.44). Other scenes are inhabited only by a single pensive figure or by a pair of figures who seem not to communicate with one another. These people are rarely represented in their own homes; instead, they pass time in the temporary shelter of movie theaters, hotel rooms, or restaurants (
31.62). In Hopper’s most iconic painting, Nighthawks (1942; Art Institute of Chicago),
25.31.2). His chosen locations are often vacant of human activity, and they frequently imply the transitory nature of contemporary life. At deserted gas stations, railroad tracks, and bridges, the idea of travel is fraught with loneliness and mystery (
37.44). Other scenes are inhabited only by a single pensive figure or by a pair of figures who seem not to communicate with one another. These people are rarely represented in their own homes; instead, they pass time in the temporary shelter of movie theaters, hotel rooms, or restaurants (
31.62). In Hopper’s most iconic painting, Nighthawks (1942; Art Institute of Chicago),
four customers and a waiter inhabit the brightly lit interior of a city diner at night. They appear lost in their own weariness and private concerns, their disconnection perhaps echoing the wartime anxiety felt by the nation as a whole.
45.157.2). Wherever he traveled, however, Hopper sought and explored his chosen themes: the tensions between individuals (particularly men and women), the conflict between tradition and progress in both rural and urban settings, and the moods evoked by various times of day.
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