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In This Issue New Paintings News and Events Inspiration from an Old Master |
Greetings! The 2008 Summer Olympics ended only 6 days ago and I miss the games already. I really got caught up in the swimming, gymnastics, and track events. The determination, training, and discipline that those athletes possess make them masters at their skills. The same is true for the master artist I present to you in this issue. Seeing the various events of the games got me to think of this artist who painted many athletes in "Real Action." I hope you enjoy this issue. Please feel free to forward this newsletter to your friends! Respectfully yours, Patrice Erickson Website: http://www.patriceerickson.com Blog: http://patriceerickson.blogspot.com Email: pericksonartist@ameritech.net Phone: 248-375-9575 New Paintings 
Summer Field
This landscape painting depicts a small area of Marsh View Park, which is located just north of
me in Oakland Township, Michigan off of Adams Road. The park is 91
acres large and includes 27 acres of wetlands and 63 acres of rolling
fields and dry forests. There's plenty of natural beauty to inspire me
for many more paintings to come.
oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches 
Jason
This portrait painting is of a four year old boy named Jayson from Richmond, Michigan. His favorite activity is dirt bike riding - with training wheels! I had no idea someone this young could ride what is essentially a motorcycle. He and his parents wished that this be reflected in the portrait painting, so we included his helmet and biking shirt and set him in the outdoors.
oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches News and Events
Group Exhibition
I'll be exhibiting one of my landscape paintings in the following show:
Exhibition: In Plain Sight Artists' Reception: Friday, Sep. 19 from 6pm - 9pm Dates of Exhibition: Friday, Sep. 12 - Friday, Oct. 3, 2008 Gallery: The Loov, 433 Main Street, Rochester, MI Inspiration from an Old Master 
Thomas Eakins
Taking the Count
c. 1898 Oil on canvas, 96 15/16 x 84 5/16 inches Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT 
Thomas Eakins
The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake
c. 1873
Oil on canvas, 40 1/4 x 60 1/4 inches
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH  Thomas Eakins
The Wrestlers
c. 1899 Oil on canvas, 48 1/2 x 60 inches Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH Real Action “In the United States, a dedicated appetite for showing the realities of the human experience made Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) a master Realist portrait and genre painter. Eakins studied both painting and medical anatomy in Philadelphia before undertaking further study under Gerome. He was resolutely a Realist; his ambition was to paint things as he saw them rather than as the public might wish them to be portrayed. This attitude was very much in tune with nineteenth-century American taste, which was said to combine an admiration for accurate depiction with a hunger for the truth. . . . Eakins believed that knowledge -- and where relevant, scientific knowledge -- was a prerequisite to his art. As a scientist (in his anatomical studies), Eakins preferred a slow, deliberate method of careful invention based on his observations of the perspective, the anatomy, and the actual details of his subject. His concern for anatomical correctness led him to investigate the human form and the human form in motion, both with regular photographic apparatus and with a special camera devised by the French kinesiologist (scholar of motion) Etienne-Jules Marey. Eakins' late collaboration with Eadweard Muybridge in the photographic study of animal and human action of all types drew favorable attention in France, especially from Degas, and anticipated the motion picture." The images shown above are from: Art Renewal Center. Ross, Sherry. August 29, 2008. < http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=83 >. The excerpt shown above is from: Tansey, Richard G., and Fred S. Kleiner. Gardner's Art Through the Ages 10 Ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace & Co.,1996: 969. |
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