René Magritte

Magritte  accepts and uses a certain language of painting. This language is over 500 years old and

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Canvas vs Stone

“Because a sculptor makes a man, like God makes a man.”

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Age & Beauty

Age need not destroy beauty.  There are people who grow more beautiful as they grow older. 

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Vincent, the Boy

Vincent was the eldest of six children of a Protestant pastor who was born and reared in a small

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Adoration of the Maji

“See Mary’s robe?  You can see in the draped fabric the folds where it has been stored in a chest. 

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The Human Spirit

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

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Natural Impressions

One of the great difficulties of an art student is to decide between his own natural impressions and

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A Cocked Hat…

The dimensions of the background are a very great importance  The space on either side of the

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The Life in the Studio

I really enjoyed this book because Nancy Hale talks about both her artist parents as

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