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“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." - Andre Gide

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse." -Winston Churchill

"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands." - Michelangelo

Showing posts with label Paintings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paintings. Show all posts

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Art Term of the Week

Tertiary Colours:
Tertiary colours are colours made up of a primary and the secondary that’s closest to it on the colour wheel. In Art the Tertiary Colours are: Yellow-Green, Blue-Green, Blue-Purple, Red-Purple, Red-Orange, & Yellow-Orange.

Artists: Monet, Mary Cassatt, Delphin Enjolras, Lord Frederic Leighton, Van Gogh


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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Art Term of the Week

Secondary Colours:

Secondary colours are colours produced by mixing primaries. In art and design the three primaries are blue, red, and yellow, so secondary colours are purple, orange, and green.


Artists: Monet, C.nick


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Sunday, March 4, 2012

Art Term of the Week

Primary Colours:
Primaries in all colour theories are a small set of colours used to make a wide more varying range of colours.  In art and design the three primaries are blue, red, and yellow.
 Artists: Van Gogh, Da Vinci, Franz Marc




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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Renoir

The Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born today (25th of February) in 1841. This is a graphite mini (3.5 X 5in, 8.9 X 12.7cm) portrait of Renoir in honour of his birthday.

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