Walt wrote: > I'm interested in art history, but am woefully ignorant of art techniques
I've painted all my life and majored in painting in a university art school and am also somewhat ignorant of art techniques! I'm always impressed by Debra's and John's knowledge. "Back in my day" I guess the method was more to just to throw you off the deep end of the pool, assign you several hundred drawings or several paintings to complete by semester's end and see if you survived. I'm not saying that's a good thing but that is how I was taught or probably *not* taught ;-) The only classes where I learned anything new (or learned to "see" in a broader sense) was in design. > I may have the wrong term, but I had kind of concluded that Joni's style, > while reeling from complete abstractiop, through impressionism, to > more-or-less realism, was centered on the fauvist idea of the use of color -- > just as John said (in different words, of course). I'd put Joni in the fauvist category before I learned of her great affection for Matisse (the godfather of fauvism). She has often spoken in interviews of Van Gogh and Matisse as her favorites. A couple of her paintings from the Wild Things Run Fast album are homages to Matisse. By the way Walt, when are you going to tell us about your gathering in San Francisco?? And where's the rest of youse who were there? ;-) Kakki
