Category: Art
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An Artist’s Secret To Endless Ideas And Creating Self Esteem: The Spell of the Unexpected
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An essay by Uriél Dana ©2014 Maude Bishop was a retired kindergarten teacher from England. She was in her 80’s, a widow, and had one son that died of polio when he was five. She was the first person I had ever met who had outlived their children. Maude was hired to be a live-in…
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Women In the Arts: Drawing New Boundaries
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© Uriél Dana 2017 When I began my painting career artists did not have the luxury of the Internet. We sent slides to galleries and publishers, waiting weeks for our precious and expensive images to be returned in our self addressed and stamped return envelopes. Women artists were not welcomed as they are today. Luckily,…
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Art and Buddhism
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Tibetan Buddhism was introduced to the West in the 1960’s. It was significant for changing the pattern of keeping mystical knowledge secret. This New American Dharma (a term coined by Llama Surya Das) began making available any knowledge that would help humanity empower itself spiritually. My own introduction to Buddhism began as a child when a sleeping disorder…
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Discrimination of Women In the Arts
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In the arts, discrimination continues to be a major issue. Here are some stats from Guerrilla Girls West, the conscience of the art world. 90% of Art Models are Women. 65% of Art Students are Women. 20% of Art Faculty are Women. Nearly half (45%) of all professional artists are Women. In “blind” art competitions…
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How To Sign A Fine Art Print
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Fine art prints are created in editions as small as 10 and up to 250. (Sometimes you will see a higher number but serious print collectors rarely will buy an edition over this number). This will read as 1/100, 2/100, 3/100 etc. All prints are signed “in pencil” at the bottom of each print. Your…
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The Marriage of Art & the Erotic: Together Again
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©2017 Uriél Dana When an artist stops painting, it does not mean they’ve stopped making art. It usually just means they’ve said all the can say on a particular subject. Life can strike us with an experience and a new series of work can be birthed to the world in an instant. Painting a series…
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Making Money As An Artist: To Have Talent Once Meant You Were Wealthy
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Did you know the original word for money was talent? In Classical Latin, talents referred to “balance, weight; a sum of money. In Medieval Latin, talent referred not only to money, but had also come to mean having a special natural ability, aptitude, or gifts that one was committed to use and would always strive for improvement. The Greek word “talanton” was used to describe anything weighed for balance,…
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Four Things That Made Impressionism Possible
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The motivating force of the Impressionists was the “truth to nature” philosophy of the Barbizon School (A group of painters working around Barbizon, France roughly around 1830). There was a real division between realism and naturalism at the time. The academies had become very tight; exhibiting work that had become extremely idealized & manipulated. The…
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Artists and Money: Ending the Martyred Stereotype
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© Uriél Dana 2015. Did you know that it only became “fashionable” for artists to be poor during the time of the Romantics? The term “suffering for one’s art” was actually coined by an unsuccessful artist in his best-selling book to justify his lack of sales. Ironically, as an author (a different art form) he…
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Art Schools in the 21st Century & the Return of the Ateliers
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Once in a while a young creative will corner me in a panic over art school admissions. They realize they will need to submit work to show skill or take an applications test. Do they need to know something about art history or the art world? Like all schools, there are establishments that will take…