John Murray classes week of Oct. 17, 2011

Two classes will have a model this week:
Oil and Acrylic Workshop and Postmodern Assemblage.

Supercharged Painting at deCordova and NewArt Center (Wed.) will not.

I found this Arthur Dove portrait in the NY Times Friday art section. I have never been aware of it before and find it an interesting American approach (almost an homage) to the French Modernists working in Cubism and collage at the time. Try a portrait using an attachment or collage element. If you can go online and see the work of Arthur Dove, an artist who worked a lot from nature, but always experimented and whose work was restless and often fresh and original.

See you next week, john.