The Stonebreakers by Gustave Courbet
“What
is REAL?" asked the Velveteen Rabbit one day... "Does it
mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out
handle?"
"Real isn't how you are made," said the
Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When [someone]
loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY
loves you, then you become Real."
"Does it hurt?"
asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse,
for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind
being hurt."
-Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
This week's Art History discussion- 19th C. Realism... the paint tube was patented, Gustave Courbet led a group of painters into a pursuit of 'the real' and John Ruskin delivered a series of lectures at Oxford. Ruskin said,
"... the entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use... either to state a true thing or to adorn a serviceable one."
Cyanotype
Full sheet of Stonehenge
Pinhole Negatives
Cyanotype
from pinhole negative
Grant Smith
Cyanotype
from digital photo
Elizabeth Hemingway
Tuesday evening was Parent Night.
Here are a couple of views of the student art gallery:
Clay-work in progress:
A painting by Mechal Harward, in progress:
Painting on canvas... in progress:
And a beautiful photo essay we viewed in Photography Class-
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