Kollwitz’s work documents moving and intense moments in ordinary lives stricken by war, poverty, sorrow, loss, and premature death, as well the stubborn resilience of bravery, love, and the struggle for peace that can overcome them.
A major difference between constructive and destructive criticism is how it’s delivered.
Artists in Ukraine have not only continued to work but have doubled down on their efforts to stay creative and demonstrate strength by producing art and posting it online, donating the proceeds.
Like many a plein air or studio landscape painter, Rebecca Crowell’s paintings arise from nature, or more specifically, from her emotional responses to the natural forms, colors, and atmospheres she connects with wherever she goes.
Getting an accurate image down is hard enough, then there's getting the LIFE into it.
How do you choose your colors? Beyond accuracy, what is color's role in your paintings?
Kateryna Bilokur was a Ukrainian folk artist whose work became known in the 1930s and '40s.
You can waste a lot of mental energy worrying over whether your work is too abstract or too representational...
The sources of our own creativity are so organic and so close to us we often ignore or don't even notice when they knock.
Plein air painters may well want to borrow a page or two from the Tonalist playbook.
