http://www.artmagick.com ... An inspirational website of images focusing on works at the turn of the century, the pre-raphaelites feature but also the nazarenes and victorian art.
http://www.artemisia-gentileschi.com ... Have you ever noticed how few famous female artists there are in the pages of art history? Well, here is a heroine of the Italian Baroque who was better than many artists of her day.
Jung and "The Red Book" What makes art important is its symbolism and its powerful influence upon our thinking. In this video we look at Jung's Journal and how it became an important source for his ideas, ideas which were to beome an important influence on modern thinking. He said of The Red Book himself...
"The years..when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this
" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_%28Jung%29
Romanticism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism with this link take an excursion into romanticism, its main ideas and visual artists. French Romantic painters Such as Gericault and Delacroix find new ways of rapidly and boldly depicting emotion and expression in oil paint.
Identifying Artistic Ability in a Young Person This article covers identifying those with potential for further development in visual art. We can often instinctively spot this in people, particularly if working in a class as a student or teacher ourselves. But this article describes criteria in a precise and measured way providing a language to describe specific attributes which we often assess intuitively. http://www.growminds.com/TheArts/GTinArt.htm
