Speaking of the MFA while this is unrelated to the hiatus and more of a thought that I just remembered they did a segment on Degas as its his birthday (I think? Something like that) with the Boston ballet, of which a friend of mine who dances in their preprocessing all programme was featured in. I was also contacted by a website who features artwork by Degas and is committed to providing accessible features for all. I will link both the websites home page and their page/archive of articles, biography, and works of Degas at the bottom of this post. Another unrelated piece of good news is that one of my doctors perscribed a medication that will cause the endometrial lining to not build up, there for no bleeding! The bad news is my parents continue to be awful people. Anyways enjoy looking at some recent posts, and I'll see you all in a few weeks.
Until next time,
Max
Link to Artsy's Home page: https://www.artsy.net
Link to Artsy's Edgar Degas page: https.//www.artsy.net/artist/edgar-degas
Max:
ReplyDeleteGood luck for the Precollege programmes in Design and Illustration.
Degas is awesome. Thanks for the Artsy reference. And great to see your friend dancing in a Degas production.
Yes, the 19th July 1834 was Degas's birthday.
Adelaide;
DeleteSorry for the late reply! Thank you, I just finished Design up this past week. It was very interesting. It mainly covered design basics such as colour theory and paper composition but we also experimented with different mediums...I learned that I don't like acrylic but it was not a complete failure!
Illustration with focus more on the human figure and similar things like that which I am excited for, and a new exhibit in the MFA on war propaganda opened yesterday, it looks fascinating as we saw it while walking through the gallery that it was being set up in. The museum is also good to be in as its nice and cool, a welcome change to the heat and humidity outside. In fact it's been so cold in the MFA you have to wear long sleeves and a sweater.
The exhibit on Degas is a very interesting exhibit, perhaps they have images on the museum website.
Max:
DeleteThank you for mentioning the War Propaganda exhibition. When I went to a regional gallery there was a really good one with all sorts of posters especially the British ones about "loose lips sink ships" and German and Soviet ones were included as well. Always good to critique these and hold them in light of 21st century standards. And there was a feminist poster as well.
The cold!
Paper composition is anything but basic especially when someone is making an artists' book.
And industrial design is great. Just received a book about this from another gallery.
There is a cool TV show called EVERYONE'S A CRITIC.
Acrylic was all I knew for a few years making art.
What a contrast to the outdoor setting/summer.
The Illustration workshop is really soon, isn't it?
Going to the Museum of Fine Art website to check out the Degas pictures.