California Art…Seeing is Believing
Kirby Kendrick2013-11-12T16:20:49-08:00Art San Diego Contemporary Art Fair 2013
Take a quick tour of the exciting San Diego Contemporary Art Fair!
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11, 2013
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10, 2013
World’s Greatest Portrait Painter
Kirby Kendrick2013-10-30T01:45:06-07:00The greatest portrait painter in the world?
Rembrandt Van Rijn, 1606-1669
Acclaimed master of the self-portrait, forty of which survive today.
Rembrandt’s paintings will forever change the way we experience an artist’s self-portrait. Rembrandt revealed much more than his likeness in the paintings. He painted his turbulent life for all to see. The masterly portraits painfully […]
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10, 2013
The Earliest Art Form…Dance!
Kirby Kendrick2013-10-15T11:09:11-07:00Dance has long been considered the earliest art form, but it has been elusive to capture and difficult to document. Hence, scant records of dance movements exist.
Fortunately, artists throughout time have depicted dancers on cave walls, pottery, tapestries, marble, parchment, canvas, and most recently on computer screens.
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10, 2013
Virginia Woolf: Who’s Afraid of Art?
Kirby Kendrick2013-10-01T13:01:51-07:00Virginia Woolf: “One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.”
Woolf […]
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09, 2013
Tank Man – Art of Documentary
Kirby Kendrick2013-09-17T15:27:49-07:00
In 1989, over half a million peaceful people, mainly students, assembled in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, to protest the corruption of the Communist government. In retaliation, army tanks were sent to clear the Square.
One anonymous man stood in […]
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09, 2013
Munch…more than just “The Scream”
Kirby Kendrick2013-09-04T00:43:10-07:00Edvard Munch, Norway’s greatest artist and famous for The Scream, once hooted and jeered by the public? How could that be?
Munch’s paintings were revolutionary. The technique of scratching, layering and smudging the canvas was unheard of.
His subjects were the complex ones of life, death, anxiety and human sexuality…frightening in their intensity […]
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08, 2013
Cubism Understood at Last!
Kirby Kendrick2013-08-21T11:49:29-07:00The Father of Modern Art…Picasso? Nope.
Linda Blair, renowned San Diego Art Historian, asserts Paul Cézanne, French painter in the latter part of the 1800‘s, as the precursor of Cubism and hence, the true Father of Modern Art…not Picasso!
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07, 2013
Degas At The Races
Kirby Kendrick2013-07-24T10:20:16-07:00
Edgar Degas, one of the greatest French Impressionists of the mid-1800’s, painted more than just ballerinas. Yes, indeed.
In the winter of 1872 Degas traveled to New Orleans, the birthplace of his mother, and became enamored with horses […]
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07, 2013
Heroes
Kirby Kendrick2013-07-08T13:50:59-07:00Heroes arise from everyday life. Supernatural and powerful forces lead the ordinary person to perform wondrous deeds, often bestowing good upon their fellow man.
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Joan of Arc’s story is one of those rare events in history […]
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06, 2013
The REAL Vincent van Gogh
Kirby Kendrick2013-06-26T14:31:44-07:00
New high-tech research shatters Van Gogh myths!
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