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The Realism Movement (1840s)

“Realism is recognized as the first modern movement in art, which rejected traditional forms of art, literature, and social organization.”

“...concerned itself with how life was structured socially, economically, politically, and culturally in the mid-nineteenth century. This led to unflinching, sometimes "ugly" portrayals of life's unpleasant moments and the use of dark, earthy palettes that confronted high art's ultimate ideals of beauty.”

This art movement was one of counter culture, and a direct attack on the forms of government (like the monarchy) who enabled the rich and who thus monopolized the art market. But! With the birth of the industrial revolution it allowed self-made artists to have access to an audience using the printing press. 

Try out this style.

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Art Challenge: Find your Doppelganger at a Museum

The point of the challenge is to get you to visit your local museum... but theres extra fun trying to find your face in a classical painting! 

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“I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe.” 

-Tamara de Lempicka

“Tamara de Lempicka stood at the center of the sophisticated Paris art world of the 1920s and 30s. Her love for beautiful women, elegant automobiles, and the modern metropolis provided not only motifs for her pictures, but also influenced her artistic style. Simultaneously with her career as artist, she pioneered a new image of life on the screen, evident in the new, self-confident woman and the changing aspects of femininity and masculinity.” 

She was considered a “starlet” folks, and also lived her life as an openly bisexual woman. Praise be!

Read more here

Try out their style!

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"Keep a light burning because I will always return" -Oswaldo Guayasamin

“Guayasamin is considered an important figure in Latin America not only for his unique style, but also for his role in recording the politics, history and struggle of the indigenous cultures of [Ecuador]. Beyond that, he is also important on a universal level for his interest and compassion in mankind and human nature as a whole.” 

Please read more here

Guayasamin’s style was entirely his own and people fondly remember his expressive way of painting hands. He also believe it’s an artist’s duty to document current events and give a voice to those with little agency or those who were forgotten by society.

Try out their style!

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Guidelines for an Art Student Portfolio ~

Hello lovelies, this post is for anyone interested in making art portfolios for art school or perhaps want ideas of basic art drawings that help strengthen your fundamental skills! We all need touch with our basics!

✏  What’s the point? 

Figure out your strengths and find productive ways to showcase them

Find out your weak points and allow yourself to work on them

Aim for 15-24 solid pieces that best represent YOU as an artist

✏ Your portfolio list should include. . .

A Series of Portraits (Show different angles and lighting!)

Figures/Full Bodies (Show proportion and anatomy)

Landscapes ( Both interior and outside) (Also try to show perspective)

One Technical Drawing ( A drawing of a tool, bicycle, like a blue print)

Still Life Drawings (Show different textures)

Personal Favorites (Your choice!) 

Show a range of your abilities (For example all the art mediums your good at using! ... acrylics, ink, watercolor, pastel, charcoal, digital, ect.)

Show what niche of art you are most interested in studying (for example.. character design, illustration, comics) (highlight what kind of artist you want to be)

✏ Tips!

Make a list of your personal influences (like ...manga, famous artists, color palettes, art movements, ect. literally anything) and try drawing in that style..

Eyes tend to linger on the right side!

Group similar color schemes together! (Keep dark colored pieces together, dont alternate with brighter pieces! )

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I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.” -Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 

“A French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, life of those times. -Wiki”

His paintings create a wonderful testimony of 19th-century bohemian life in Paris. Please read more about them, you wont regret it! 

And try out their style!

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Abbott Thayer, and his Angel Series 

“An American artist, naturalist and teacher. As a painter of portraits, figures, animals and landscapes, he enjoyed a certain prominence during his lifetime, and his paintings are represented in the major American art collections. He is perhaps best known for his 'angel' paintings, some of which use his children as models.” -Wiki

His great love of birds translated into his Angel Series by literally putting wings on his subjects/daughters. Abbot also said that women were superior to men in all forms due to their “virtuous nature”, so maybe the series was the embodiment of this. 

More info about them here

Please try out their style for yourself, and do some study!

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Art Challenge: Friend's Portrait

“Vincent van Gogh rounded off every day in the bar, where the ‘absinthes and brandies would follow each other in quick succession’. Van Gogh himself later admitted that he was ‘almost an alcoholic’ by the time he left for Arles . Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec had good reason, therefore, for sketching his friend at a table with a glass of absinthe.” (Read more here)

(”Portrait of Vincent van Gogh” by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec)

The Art Challenge is to create a portrait, outside!

➺ LEAVE THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME 

 ➺ Try to describe the place. Maybe its somewhere you’ve been a dozen times, maybe its a place you wanna go, or you could try to insert yourself into this very painting.  

➺ All forms of art is accepted! Visual, Written, Audio, ect. ! 

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