Being an avid outdoorsman this painting spoke to me like none of the others, it reminded me of all the memorable days I’ve spent backpacking through the Sierra Nevada mountains with my friends. This painting represents the raw beauty of the outdoors. This painting was painted using oil on canvas sometime before 1938. He used a very thick brush when painting this in order to create a “blotchy” effect
While Smithson began work as a painter, he later met Nancy Holt, a sculptor who he would eventually marry. Seeing his wife’s love for sculpting, Smithson began to accumulate an interest for the art as well, and soon found himself involved in conceptual art. Drawing from his life long allure to nature, Smithson began using the materials of the land to sculpt what he called his “Earth works” (Robertsmithson.org. )Using materials of the land, such as rock and gravel, Smithson created some of the world’s most famous land art, including the Spiral Jetty in 1970, which is a 15 foot-wide spiral of rocks and debris. In 1973, as smithson was headed to a survey site for his latest work, the Amarillo Ramp, his plane crashed and he was killed at the age of 35.
I knew that not only was I about to experience art in general, but that I was about to see art from all over the world, from hundreds of different societies and time periods. Art ranges from the primitive inscriptions on wood to large silver shrines; from the pyramids of ancient Egypt, to a child's drawings. Artwork takes many different forms and while everyone has their own style and taste, it is too difficult to measure the true worth of art. What is simple and most worthwhile advice for anyone interested in art is to see the beauty in all of it. When I proceeded to my first exhibit I was, honestly, mildly amused.
Mann Gulch Fire On August 5th, 1949 what was thought to be a routine day in the lives of 16 smokejumpers, will be remembered within the U.S. Forest service as well as firefighting history. The Mann Gulch fire occurred in Montana’s Helena National Forest, and prior to this incident, no smokejumper had ever died fighting a wildland fire. The fire, which was caused by lightning strike, was originally spotted at 12:25 pm. Due to the remote location and lack of roads; smokejumpers were dispatched to the incident. Forman Wagner (Wag) Dodge and his crew made their jump a few hours after the call.
Candice Rice AH20A T/TH 10/21/10 My visit to the Cantor art museum was exciting and inspirational. The first thing I noticed as I pulled up was the beautiful Rodin sculpture collection outside. The sculptures were massive, yet lifelike. I was eyeing one of the torsos on the sculpture and the detail was amazing. All the cuts and rips were impeccable.
His previous work as a printer gave him the knowledge of watercolour and attention to detail. He became sensitive to line work and drawing with fine detail through printing. The Chinese and their unique way of drawing also influenced Wolseley. He appreciates the way a Chinese artist will study the landscape for hours before going back to draw it. Wolseley has a unique practice including burying his works and digging them up weeks later to find them weathered and eroded.
In 1859-60 an unknown explorer went up the Arkansas River and found gold in it’s sand and gravel. Explorers, miners, railroad expansionists, farmers and ranchers flooded the area. Railroad pushed west to serve thousands of miners. The Denver & Rio Grande Western battled for the Royal Gorge route up the Arkansas, establishing Salida in late May 1880. Economics: Salida is the service, supply, and tourism center for the Upper Arkansas Valley.
Although loosely organized and relatively short-lived, Group f/64 brought the new West Coast vision of straight photography to national attention and influence. San Francisco's DeYoung Museum promptly gave f/64 an exhibition and, in that same year, gave Adams his first one-man museum show. Adams was an activist for the cause of wilderness and the environment. Over the years he attended innumerable meetings and wrote thousands of letters in support of his conservation philosophy to newspaper editors, Sierra Club and Wilderness Society colleagues, government bureaucrats, and politicians. However, his great influence came from his photography.
Learning to draw was pivotal for Mies, the early on demonstrated his talent is occasionally lettering for one of his father’s tombstones, then in technical drawing at school and shortly theater in drafting large scale decorative details fora stucco fabricator for whom he worked for two years. Mies later recalled, ”If I thought I knew how to draw before, I really learned now. We had huge drawing boards that went from floor to ceiling and stood vertically against the wall. You couldn’t lean on or against them; you had to stand squarely in front of them and draw not just by turning your hand but by swinging your whole arm. We mad drawings the size of an entire quarter on a room ceiling, which we could then send on to the model makers.
She was located in the foyer at the west of the museum’s main entrance standing isolated, but not lost. When I saw her, she drew me into her. I think it was the contrast of her slender lines and her towering size that intrigued me initially, but as I got closer I found her to lend so much more. Her composition composed of a bronze casting that danced with movement and unlimited visual expression that causes you to become entranced in her image. The surface texture seemed to never end which made you wonder the story behind her creation.