After the Masters

in awe of sky, poetry & Trinity ✨ emotional health matters #ChildhoodEnlightenment

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#Lichtenstein #ChildhoodEnlightenment #instart #art #creativeintelligence #emotionalintelligence

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"I believe...abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent" #Chirico #arteducation #AftertheMasters Enigma of the Day #charcoal

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"What are #Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever." Thomas Wentworth #AftertheMasters

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"Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love." Marc Chagall Pencil study after #Chagall #artapprectation

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"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." W.B. Yeats #ArtAppreciation Study after Jack Yeats, For the Road #ChildhoodEnlightenment #AftertheMasters

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If you are thinking "I'm breaking" Remember: Dawn breaks too ~ it breaks through. #HopeExists #haiku #ChildhoodEnlightenment #instart

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Life as art. Art as Life. #ChildhoodEnlightenment

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Spent yesterday making a quick visit to the Town Green in Lexington, MA.  It is the site at which the first shots were fired to begin the war phase of the American Revolution.  The Buckman Tavern was the site at which the Massachusetts Militia in the area had gathered before the British troops arrived.  Hearing of the enemy’s arrival, the Militiamen lined up on the green to demonstrate their presence.  It is debatable who fired the first shot but several Militiamen were killed.  Others were wounded including Prince Estabrook, a local slave who eventually won his freedom fighting in the Revolution for the Continental Army.  This gives him the distinction of being the first black man to fight in the Revolution.  Since Estabrook left no writings, it is impossible to know exactly what was going through his mind on April 19, 1775. We do know that he was in bondage to the Estabrook family and can surmise that he braved the British fire that day because he saw the American cause as just and a mechanism for his freedom from slavery, not just British rule.  Politicians today use martial sounding rhetoric that invokes the spirit of the American Revolution and battlefield heroics.  This makes too easy to forget that the men and women who stood at the threshold of a free America did so in real life and death circumstances.  “Liberty or death” was not a oratorical abstraction but a real life imperative.

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Studies of DaVinci studies #DaVinci #AftertheMasters. #art #education

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More than one way to go after DaVinci's Lady with the Ermine. Students age 8 to 10. #art #education #creative #genius #masterpiece #DaVinci #AftertheMasters

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More than one way to go after Hopper. Art by Students ages 13, 14 and 15. #Hopper #art #education #creative #genius #AftertheMasters

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Students visiting from China experience American Artists. #Lichtenstein #newsprint #charcoal

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"This is the flight of Duck Revere..." Student age 11 judged his study of "Paul Revere" by John Singleton Copley to look more like a duck than a person. I encouraged him to embrace and celebrate the humor. Confident he will always remember this masterpiece :-)

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Art is first and foremost about feeling, and feeling is expressed through color. Students, ages 8, after Kandinsky #childhoodenlightenment #flipagram #emotionalhealth

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#artselfie thank you @alittlemandolin_fineart 💜💜

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Life as art. Art as Life. #ChildhoodEnlightenment

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What's on your#bookshelf #instart #childhoodenlightenment #art #masterpieces #masters #art