What has the NEA done for you recently? January 23, 2017art, art history, cultureAndres Serrano, National Endowment for the Arts, NEA, Orr C. Fisher, public funding of art, Robert Mapplethorpe By Carol Douglas America would hardly be a cultural wasteland without the NEA. In fact I doubt anyone would notice it was gone.
Resolving disagreement, the art history way January 18, 2017art history, culture, faith, HomeAugustine of Hippo, baptism, Carol L. Douglas, Catacomb of Callixtus, John Nicholson, Rogier van der Weyden, Santa Maria Antiqua Sarcophagus, theology By Carol Douglas In a post-truth world, art doesn’t lie.
Is love really too much to ask? January 17, 2017art history, culture, Home, paintingCarol L. Douglas, hate, internet, love, post-truth world, racism, Sir Stanley Spencer, violence By Carol Douglas Two innocent babies belittled on a racist website. It’s the ugly underbelly of the internet.
A sane estimate of my capabilities January 13, 2017art career, art history, Home, Maine artistabilities, Ancient of Days, Michelangelo, self-analysis, self-worth, Sistine Chapel, William Blake By Carol Douglas Our gifts are transitory. Once given, they can be lost again in an instant. They don’t totally define us, but they are a part of who we are.
Painting the Great White North January 9, 2017art history, landscape, plein air paintingarctic, Carol L. Douglas, Caspar David Friedrich, Lawren Harris, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Poppy Balser, Rockwell Kent, Russel Whitten, sub-zero temperatures, winter By Carol Douglas Brrh! Some artists (including me) are called to paint in the Great White North. What are we thinking?
Your favorite artist you can’t remember December 22, 2016art career, art history, cultureCarol L. Douglas, colored pencil, Eloise Wilkin, illustration, Little Golden Books, RIT, Simon & Shuster, women artists By Carol Douglas If you loved Little Golden Books, Louise Wilkin probably had a hand in shaping your ideas about art.
Learn to paint in beautiful Acadia November 22, 2016art history, Home, Maine, plein air painting, teachingAcadia National Park, Carol L. Douglas, Christmas giving, learn to draw, learn to paint, plein air painting workshop, Schoodic Head By Carol Douglas It’s the holiday season, and I’m thinking about workshops. Yeah!
It’s a fake, darn it! November 17, 2016art historyart history, Carol L. Douglas, drawing, fakes, forgery, learn to draw, learn to paint, The Lost Arles Sketchbook, Vincent van Gogh By Carol Douglas I feel like a kid who just got socks for Christmas instead of the toy I really wanted.
Son of violence November 8, 2016art history, culture, HomeBeaux Arts, Election Day, Franco-Prussian War, General Juan Prim, Henri Regnault, Napoleon III, Prix de Rome, Second French Empire By Carol Douglas As an artist, he was exempted from military service. As a child of war, he felt obliged.
That Ugly Renaissance Baby thing November 7, 2016art history, Homeart history, babies, Carol L. Douglas, Giotto, Jan van Eyck, Lucas Cranach the Elder, painting, Religious art, ugly Renaissance babies By Carol Douglas I suppose the artists could have drugged the little nippers, but I doubt many mothers would go along with that.