{"id":1515,"date":"2017-11-08T23:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T07:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2019-09-16T12:06:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T19:06:47","slug":"always-more-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/always-more-to-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Always More to Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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No matter who you are, how much education, experience or opportunity you’ve had, there’s always more to learn. A closed mind is an atrophied mind. This is especially true in art. Art dies when you close the door to learning, experimentation and new experiences.<\/p>\n

It’s never been easier to gain knowledge. We live in a time when worldwide learning opportunities and experiences (secondhand anyway) are at our fingertips. The Internet is your door to all this information. Let me get you started on this mind-expanding journey.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Corey D’Augustine painting as Pollock.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

One of my favorite online sources for learning is the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) YouTube channel<\/a>. There is so much information presented here, by category, I don’t know where to begin. Don’t miss the on-going In The Studio<\/a> series. This constantly growing collection of videos, hosted by, painter, restoration artist and art historian, Corey D’Augustine, allows you a fly on the wall<\/em> view of famous artist processes. Corey shares details of how various modern artists worked, as he actually creates new works of art, before your eyes, utilizing their procedures. Fascinating!<\/p>\n

While not all of them are as complete or organized as the MoMA channel, every major art museum has a channel on YouTube and all are worth mining for new knowledge: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)<\/a>, the Getty Museum<\/a>, the de Young and Legion of Honor (Fine Art Museums of San Francisco)<\/a>, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)<\/a>, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) <\/a>and the Van Gogh Museum<\/a> are just a few notables. I’d like to recommend the Mus\u00e9e d’Orsay<\/em> (the Impressionism Museum), but the narration is all in French and I haven’t been able to find any way to add English subtitles (oh, those French!).<\/span><\/p>\n

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“In the Conservancy” by \u00c9douard Manet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Want to study paintings up close, brush stroke by brush stroke? Travel! Just kidding…a few years ago Google took on a project to archive as many of the art treasure of the world for posterity, as the artwork’s owners would allow. The result was the Google Art Project<\/a>, now part of the total Google Arts & Culture<\/a> site. For this Art Project<\/em>, Google has been traveling around the world making high<\/p>\n

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Zoom In on “In the Conservancy”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

resolution scans of great works of visual arts (paintings). Many of the paintings are scanned at such high resolution you can zoom in to see the threads that make up the canvas, between the strokes of paint. What a learning device! Even if you have super-human eyesight, security would never let you close enough to a painting in a museum to see this kind of detail. For the first time, see what the individual brush strokes look like that make up that Manet<\/em> masterpiece! You can travel through the front doors of the Google Arts & Culture<\/a> or Google Art Project<\/a> (click the View Project Sit<\/em>e button in the upper right corner to get to the paintings) sections, but here’s a shortcut<\/a> directly to the paintings.<\/p>\n

There’s likely a whole lot more out there waiting for you that I haven’t discovered yet, but these will whet your appetite. As the saying goes, “The world is your oyster!” Now get out there and begin collecting those pearls!<\/p>\n

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