Monthly Archives: May 2016
No 351 Tintoretto
“You can never do too much drawing.” Tintoretto, who died on May 31, 1594 in Venice.
No 350 Jerry Saltz
“Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools – only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.” Jerry Saltz, an American art critic who, since 2006, has been senior art critic and … Continue reading
No 349 Edgar Degas
“No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.” Edgar Degas
No 348 Georges Rouault
“The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.” Georges Rouault, a French painter, draughtsman, and printer, whose work is often associated with Fauvism and Expressionism, … Continue reading
No 347 Dorothea Lange
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” Dorothea Lange, an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work, was born on May 26, 1895.
No 346 Robert Capa
“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.” Robert Capa, the Hungarian war photographer and photo journalist, was killed on May 25, 1954 in Vietnam while covering the First Indochina War. “Although a few years earlier he had said he … Continue reading
No 345 Samuel Palmer
“Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.” Samuel Palmer, a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker, died on May 24, 1881.
No 344 Mary Cassatt
“I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.” Mary Cassatt, an American painter and printmaker was born in Pennsylvania on May 22, 1844, but lived much of her … Continue reading
No 343 Jean Tinguely
“To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.” Jean Tinguely, a Swiss painter and sculptor best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition, known officially as metamechanics, was born on 22 May 1925.
No 342 Henri Rousseau
“Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. ” Henri Rousseau, who was born on May 21, 1844.
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