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Pocketcanvas Take 5 Blog- Take time out 20th October

1.    Art people- Quick Fix-

Salvador Dalí was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain. From an early age Dalí was encouraged to practice his art, and he would eventually go on to study at an academy in Madrid. In the 1920s, he went to Paris and began interacting with artists such as Picasso, Magritte and Miró, which led to Dalí's first Surrealist phase. He is perhaps best known for his 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory, showing melting clocks in a landscape setting. The rise of fascist leader Francisco Franco in Spain led to the artist's expulsion from the Surrealist movement, but that didn't stop him from painting. Dalí died in Figueres in 1989.

www.biography.com/people/salvador-dal-40389

2. Decorative Dip

This design is by Varvara Stepanova 1924. The Constructivists advocated machine production, industrial materials and abstract forms. The motif in this design is based on the propeller-style fans once common in factories and workshops. 

3.Art Business Donna Karen:

Karan became well known for her 'Essentials' line, initially offering seven easy pieces centered around the bodysuit which could all be mixed and matched, and created a fully integrated wardrobe with her First Collection in 1985. Karan always insisted that she would design only clothes like jersey dresses and opaque Lycra tights that she would wear herself.[10]

4. Art Look

Artsy

If you're an art enthusiast but don't have the time or money to travel to various museums, consider using Artsy, an online resource for art and museums. Artsy is a platform that features popular galleries, museum collections, foundations, artist estates, art fairs and benefit auctions in one place, according to their website. Their mission is to "make all the world's art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection." Keeping art alive and appreciated, especially in an increasingly digital world, is important to the industry's success.

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5. Motivation/Thought

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

‘You will be glad to have by you a little book of leaves prepared with ground bone, and to note down notions in it with silverpoint…. When it is full, keep it to serve your future plans, and take another and carry on with it.’

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Pocketcanvas Take 5 Blog- Take time out 3rd November

 1.    Art people- Quick Fix-

Robert Thomas (1 August 1926 – 11 May 1999)[1] was a Welsh sculptor born in Cwmparc in the Rhondda Valley. He is best known for his work in bronze sculptures, many of which are on public display. He was one of the members of the 'Rhondda Group'. (Wikipedia)

2.    Decorative Dip

3.    Art Business 

Laura Ashley (7 September 1925 – 17 September 1985) was a Welsh fashion designer and businesswoman. She originally made furnishing materials in the 1950s, expanding the business into clothing design and manufacture in the 1960s. The Laura Ashley style is characterised by Romantic English designs — often with a 19th-century rural feel — and the use of natural fabrics. (Wikipedia)

4.    Art Look

https://www.leeds.gov.uk/museumsandgalleries/lothertonhall/himalayan-fashion

 5.  Motivation/Thought Titian (c.1487/1490-1576) ‘It is not bright colours but good drawing that makes figures beautiful.’

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Take 5 Blog- Take time out 27th October

1.    Art people- Quick Fix- Tracey Emin

In 1997, her work Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, a tent appliquéd with the names of everyone the artist had ever shared a bed with was shown at Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition held at the Royal Academy in London.[4] The same year, she gained considerable media exposure when she swore repeatedly in a state of drunkenness on a live discussion programme called The Death of Painting on British television.

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 2.    Decorative Dip

Swiss designer and Illustrator Eugene Grasset- published in 1897. Grasset was like Williams Morris in that he believed passionately that art should be a joy as much for the maker as the user. (1000 patterns- Gen ed: Drusilla Cole)

3.    Art Business

One company leading the charge is Rise Art. Set up in 2011 by Scott Phillips and Marcos Steverlynck, it is an online gallery offering new works largely from emerging artists. Unlike other industries, which have been overtaken by e-commerce, online purchases make up just 7% of private art sales. But for Rise Art business is booming. “I’d say over the past eight months, we have been growing at about 30% month on month,” says Phillips. https://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2017/mar/27/meet-the-entrepreneurs-shaking-up-the-art-world

Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

4.    Art Look

https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition/roman-vishniac-rediscovered

5.  Motivation/Thought

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) ‘Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.’

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Pocketcanvas Take 5 Blog- Take time out 6th October

1.    Art people- Quick Fix- Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Around 1892, Mackintosh met fellow artist Margaret Macdonald at the Glasgow School of Art. He and fellow student Herbert MacNair, also an apprentice at Honeyman and Keppie, were introduced to Margaret and her sister Frances MacDonald by the head of the Glasgow School of Art, Francis Henry Newbery, who saw similarities in their work.[8] Margaret and Charles married on 22 August 1900.[9] The couple had no children. MacNair and Frances also married the previous year. The group worked collaboratively and came to be known as "The Four", and were prominent figures in Glasgow Style art and design. (Wikipedia)

2. Decorative Dip

Pre- Columbian America The Guatemalan women who embroidered these motifs no doubt saw them as more than traditional pictures passed down from mother to daughter. Evidence suggests, however, that their origins lie in ancient Mayan designs. They come from the collar of a two panel huipil, a sleeveless blouse, made in the last quarter of the 20th century.  (1000 patterns- Gen ed: Drusilla Cole)

3.Art Business 

www.jcmiddlebrook.co.uk/about-2/

I make my own lace textiles in my Nottinghamshire studio using bang up to date software and machinery. Although the heritage of the industry inspires me, I prefer to make wearable lace in vivid shades, challenging perceptions of what lace can be.

4 Art Look

Renzo Piano –The Art of Making buildings. 15th September 2018r to 20th January 2019 at the Royal Academy,London.

From The Shard in London to the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the buildings of Renzo Piano have enriched cities across the globe. We reveal the vision and invention behind his pioneering work, showing how architecture can touch the human spirit.

5.Motivation/thought

 John Ruskin (1819-1900)

‘The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

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30th September 2018

1.    Art people- Quick Fix - Rembrandt

As a boy he attended Latin school. At the age of 14, he was enrolled at the University of Leiden, although according to a contemporary he had a greater inclination towards painting; he was soon apprenticed to a Leiden history painter, Jacob van Swanenburgh, with whom he spent three years.[16] After a brief but important apprenticeship of six months with the painter Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam, Rembrandt stayed a few months with Jacob Pynas and then started his own workshop, though Simon van Leeuwen claimed that Joris van Schooten taught Rembrandt in Leiden.[16][17] Unlike many of his contemporaries who traveled to Italy as part of their artistic training, Rembrandt never left the Dutch Republic during his lifetime.[18][19]

 2.    Decorative Dip

 Pre- Columbian America

 This traditional pattern, with its stylised tree and its various animals, were all woven in horizontal bands and mirror imaged, has its beginnings in pre- Conquest times when sacred trees were linked with the four points of the compass. The detail comes from a quechquemitl, a traditional cape made from two lengths of cloth, produced in the last quarter of the 20th century. (1000 patterns- Gen ed: Drusilla Cole)

 3.    Art Business: www.artsy.net

The Art World Online

Artsy features the world’s leading galleries, museum collections, foundations, artist estates, art fairs, and benefit auctions, all in one place. Our growing database of 1,000,000 works of art, architecture, and design by 100,000 artists spans historical, modern, and contemporary works, and includes the largest online database of contemporary art. Artsy is used by art lovers, museum-goers, patrons, collectors, students, and educators to discover, learn about, and collect art.

 4.  Art Look-

 Mackintosh -150

 A year-long programme of events has been launched to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Exhibitions, events, seminars and tours will take place across 2018 to celebrate the incredible legacy and creative genius of Glasgow's great cultural icon.  (www.glasgowmackintosh.com)

 5.    Motivation/Thought

 Tintoretto (1518-1594)

Beautiful colours can be bought in the shops on the Riatlo, but good drawing can only be bought from the casket of the artist’s talent with patient study and nights with out sleep.’

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Pocketcanvas Take 5 Blog- Take time out

 23rd September 2018

 1.    Art people- Quick Fix- Rose Wylie RA

“I married early and had children, and so I didn’t paint for a long time,” she explains. “But that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. I’d been through a lot, and thought a lot, and I came back to my work afresh.” Her fearlessness is being recognised. In 2014, Wylie scooped the John Moores Painting Prize; last year she was elected a Royal Academician, and she currently has her first major solo show at Margate’s Turner Contemporary.

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/international-womens-day-2016-10-great-women-in-the-arts

 2.    Decorative Dip

Bamboo and wisteria motifs make up the pattern on this 19th century paper stencil plate. It was designed to be used in a technique known as Katazome, which involves spreading a rice-paste resist through a stencil and dipping the resultant cloth in a cold dye vat. (1000 patterns - Gen Ed: Drusilla Cole)

 3.    Art Business - Joyce Hall

The founder of Hallmark Cards started his career with no real experience in the product that would later make his family name a household word. His first venture was selling perfume to neighbours after which he got a job as a clerk in his older brother’s bookstore. At just 16, he invested with his brothers to open the Norfolk Postcard Company in Norfolk, Nebraska. He would later move to Kansas City where he started wholesaling postcards to bookstores and gift shops. Circumstances forced him to create his own cards only when a fire destroyed his existing stock.

https://smallbiztrends.com/2016/03/successful-entrepreneurs-with-no-experience.html

4.    Art Look

Inspire 2018 Young artists from the ages of 5 to 19. Ends 15th September 2018 at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. (I know it has finished but still inspiring)

 5.    Motivation/Thought

Michelangelo (1475-1564) ‘Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure. ‘

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Pocketcanvas Blog 15.09.18

1.Art people- Quick Fix 

Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun 

Born in Paris, France, Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842) is most known as a portrait painter during the utterly decadent Rococo period. She was Marie Antoinette’s personal portrait painter, having painted the queen (and sometimes her family) more than 30 times. Vigée Le Brun’s own legacy includes hundreds of paintings to the tune of over 600 portraits and 200 landscapes.

2.Decorative Dip

This pattern looks very modern but it is reinterpretation of an ancient Egyptian freeze. The zigzags and the lines springing from the circle are typical of ancient Egyptian motifs.

 3. Art of Business

 Sara Blakely is the founder of Spanx, a multi-million dollar undergarment company.

Blakely did not have that much money to invest when founding Spanx. It really is a true example of why she’s one of the most famous female entrepreneurs. Sara’s idea was rejected numerous times from potential investors and it took a great deal of hard work to get the company off the ground.

In fact, during the initial marketing of the brand, it was compliments from Oprah Winfrey, that drove up awareness and sales of Sara’s products.

4.Art Look National Museum Cardiff:

Women in Focus- looks at what role women play in Photography. Women behind the lens starts in May 2018.

5.Motivation/Thought

Treat it as a level playing field and it will be.Cornelia Parker RA

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Pocketcanvas Take 5 Blog 8.09.18

  1.    Art people- Quick Fix- Hockney

In the 1980s, Hockney experimented with photocollage – joining and combining photos (often taken with a Polaroid camera) to form a patchwork image.

He is a massive admirer of Pablo Picasso.

Hockney is an avid user of the Brushes iPhone app. He uses it to draw portraits and send them to friends.

He has designed sets and costumes for ballets and operas.

2.    Decorative Dip

This motif features cranes, clouds, and chrysanthemums – are propitious symbols of prosperity, long life and happiness. According to Japanese myth cranes are thought to live for a thousand years. (1000 patterns - Gen Ed: Drusilla Cole)

 3.    Art People 2 

Cornelia Parker-

Parker says she was “brought up as a surrogate son” by her father. By the time she was studying sculpture at Wolverhampton Poly in the 70s, she barely noticed that she was in the minority. “It was a very political issue at the time, but I sort of side-stepped it. Not because I wasn’t a feminist but because I assumed I had the same rights as a boy. Gender was never a central plank in my thinking.”

4.    Art Look : Emil Nolde – Colour is Life- Until the 21st October 2019. National Galleries Scotland

 5.    Motivation/Thought 

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Blog Aug 2018

1.    Art people- Quick Fix

 Lowry was a huge admirer of Pre-Raphaelite art. He formed a Pre-Raphaelite art society in 1966 and he also owned several key works from the period, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Proserpine. 

2.    Decorative Dip

The Greek key pattern may have originated from the legend of Theseus and the Minator where they fought each other in the Labyrinth. Others say the pattern symbolises waves or snakes or it may be a symbol of the never-ending connections of love and friendship. 

 3.    Art Business

Cath Kidston set her business up in 1993 in Holland Park.

She is dyslexic.

She designed a tent for Millets in 

By the end of 2013, she had 136 outlets, including a flagship store on Piccadilly next to Fortnum & Mason and four stores in China

4.    Art Look

Frida Kahlo Exhibition “Making herself Up” at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

5.    Motivation/Thought

Picasso said:

“Every child is an artist. The problem is staying an artist when you grow up!”

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