You know what you can name.
Understanding the reference systems you move in holds one of the tougher learning curves you need to continuously handle when starting to learn any craft. Sometimes that’s easy - in painting for example, when interested in depicting objects, faces or basic…
Gustav Klimt - Death and Life
The problem with art school is you put so much trust in your professors but like, you don’t necessarily KNOW that they know better than you? Like art is so subjective, who’s to say that they know what your painting needs? Who’s to say that they can do your piece better than you can and they know what to tell you to make it right? Many of them do give great advice, but sometimes you have to take what your professors say with a grain of salt because while they may have gotten the job and they may be INCREDIBLE, they may not know whats best for you.
The Louvre is evacuated before German invasion in 1939, its works returning in 1945
“The Body,” a series by Alan Herbert
This is produced by a hand drawn photogram on top of a medium format photo.
Ten o’clock in the evening.
Achille Devéria, from Le romantisme et la mode (Romanticism and fashion), by Louis Maigron, Paris, 1911.
(Source: archive.org)
Gottfried Helnwein, The Intrusion, 1971
Tom Butler
René Magritte - “Attempting The Impossible” (Oil on canvas) 1928
