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I’ve been\u00a0the beneficiary of a great art education and had the added advantage of working alongside other artists most of my adult life. I’ve always been confident that I knew who all the important artists were, working currently and in the past. I’ve had great art history teachers, I’ve always been a frequent visitor to local art museums and\u00a0when I’ve traveled, I’ve made visiting all available museums part of my itinerary.\u00a0In fact, if it’s vacation travel, visiting the museums is always central to the trip. I’m also a frequent reader of significant art magazines and artist biographies. So when I learn of an important\u00a0artist I don’t know about, I go into a state of shock. Say what!<\/p>\n
In my defense, up until recently, my focus has always been on artists exhibited in art museums. My own work had been exclusively focused on abstraction,\u00a0so my interest lie\u00a0with Modern and post WW II Contemporary Art. I hadn’t\u00a0paid much attention to the work in small local\u00a0or regional galleries.<\/p>\n That changed recently, when joining a local art association, Yosemite Western Artists (YWA)<\/em>, reawakened my interest in representational art. You can learn more about\u00a0that transition in my earlier post, “The Power in Painting with Friends.”<\/a>\u00a0Anyway, this revitalized interest in representational art\u00a0has\u00a0introduced me to some of the leading artists creating representational art\u00a0today, artists to whom I’d never been exposed\u00a0in the past. That, in turn, pointed\u00a0me to the artists, through history, they feel are important influences on their representational work. Many of them are the same Modern Art giants that have, in some way, been effecting my abstract work: Manet, Degas, Monet, C\u00e9zanne, Lautrec, Van Gogh, etc., but others, like Anders Zorn and Joaqu\u00edn Sorolla, I’d never heard of. Look at the color and brush work in the attached Impressionistic Sorolla painting, ” Ni\u00f1os Tomando su Ba\u00f1o.” Unbelievable!<\/p>\n What a treat! To find this cornucopia of new works to digest is like a childhood\u00a0Christmas morning! I can’t see and study all these works, new to me, fast enough! I’m now on a quest to\u00a0uncover\u00a0all the other important artists to whom I’ve yet to be exposed. This all grew out of my recent association with YWA<\/em>. Another, very important reason to become an active part of local art associations in your area.<\/p>\n I always new that education was a life-long undertaking, but I must admit, I was surprised to discover, that with all the\u00a0attention\u00a0I’ve given\u00a0it, there were avenues in art history down which I’d never traveled. Bon Voyage!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been\u00a0the beneficiary of a great art education and had the added advantage of working alongside other artists most of my adult life. I’ve always been confident that I knew who all the important artists were, working currently and in the past. I’ve had great art history teachers, I’ve always been a frequent visitor to … Continue reading “Keep Your Eyes Wide Open & Your Ear to the Ground!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[4,82,80,8,81],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ni\u00f1os](\"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ninos-tomando-su-bano.jpg\")