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Color Blocks

Posted in Art Camp, tagged , , , , on July 18, 2017| Leave a Comment »

20170718_060313Yesterday at Art Camp we talked about Mark Rothko and created a Color Block painting.  This session of camp is Modern Art Camp so we will be looking at several different styles of modern painting.  These young artists did a great job.

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Happy Birthday Rothko

Posted in Little Known Facts, Serendipity, tagged , , on September 25, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Samples of Rothko's color block paintings

Samples of Rothko’s color block paintings

Mark Rothko (September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970) was an American painter of Russian Jewish descent. He is generally identified as an Abstract Expressionist.  You can read more about Rothko here.

He is most well-known for his “color block” paintings.

This is my favorite Rothko quote:  “It’s a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it’s well painted.”

 

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Art Camp – Modern Week

Posted in Abstract, Art Camp, tagged , , , , , , , on July 26, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Art Camp continues.  This week our focus is on Modern Art.  First we produced a color wheel to learn more about color mixing.

 

Then we applied what we had learned about color to painting  Rothko-like modern paintings. 

The young artists did a great job producing these wonderful colors using only blue, yellow, red and white on their palettes.  Don’t you think?

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