ARTIST'S EXPRESSION
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Art is literacy of the heart.
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Art is the Queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.
Art is the child of imagination and gives life.
Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
Art #17: Four-Sided Pyramid (Sol LeWitt)
The Four-Sided Pyramid is an artistic masterpiece of Sol LeWitt, who is an American artist that was known for his creative in the area of Conceptual art and Minimalism. This Pyramid can be found at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden.
Art #15: Statue of David (Michelangelo)
This Statue of David is one of the masterpiece of Michelangelo who is a famous Italian artist. This is one of a great Renaissance sculpture masterpiece. This sculpture was created about 1501 and 1504. It is a marble statue of david who is standing nude. The sculpture can be found outside the Palazzo della Signoria. Many sculpture appreciate this masterpiece because of its creative structural design.
Art #14: Garçon à la pipe (Pablo Picasso)
Garçon à la Pipe, was painted by a famous painter Pablo Picasso. This painting was painted at around 1905. Picasso that time was at the age of 24. Picasso settled soon after at the Montmartre section of Paris, France. This painting is a product of an oil on canvas painting that depicts a Parisian boy holding a pipe and it is wearing a garland or wreath of flowers.
Art #4: The Thinker (Auguste Rodin)
Art #3: The Lady of Shalott (John William Waterhouse)
The Lady of Shalott was painted by an English painter John William Waterhouse. It is a representation scene from Lord Alfred Tennysonn's 1832 Poem which of the same name. This painting was made of an 1888 old oil-on-canvas.
Paint Brushes: Are you an artist?
Round: This kind of brush is used for details.
Flat: This is used in spreading the paint quickly and it is used also to evenly spread over the surface.
Bright: This is a flat brush with short stiff bristles. It is good for driving paint into the weave of a canvas in commonly thinner paint applications, even also in any thicker painting designs like impasto.
Filbert: This is a flat brush with domed on its ends. It is used with good coverage and it is good to use with its ability to form details.
Fan: This is commonly used for blending any board areas of the paint.
Angle: This kind of brush is very versatile in its use and it can be used in both general painting and other detail work.
Mop: This kind of brush is large with an edge that is round for broad soft paint application and even for getting thinner glazes over other existing drying layers of paint without damaging any lower layers.
Rigger: This is a round brush with longish hairs. Usually, it is used for painting the rigging among images of ships. This is very useful in any fine lines and is very effective for both oils and watercolors.
There are many kinds of paintbrushes...these are just common kinds of brushes that are commonly used.
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