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Portrait Head Study Workshop in July at the Kewaunee Academy of Fine Art
July 1, 2010
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Ilya Repin – Itinerant Wanderer, Progressive Realist
Ilya Repin, the famous Russian painter of the late 19th-early 20th centuries of the realist school, once said, speaking about the Impressionists: “Having done their thing, having refreshed art and having freed it from the conservative academic trend … they have become conservative themselves, limiting their art to just toying with purple, blue and orange [...]
May 20, 2010
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Kewaunee Academy Students Attend the Portrait Society of America’s Annual Conference in Washington DC
As part of their commitment to educating the public about the traditions, techniques and aesthetics of fine art portraiture and figurative works, The Portrait Society of America honored the Kewaunee Academy of Fine Art by awarding six scholarships to its students to attend their Annual Conference. The Conference was held in Washington, DC on April [...]
May 14, 2010
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FREE Figure Drawing Instruction This Saturday at the Kewaunee Academy of Fine Art!
Join us for free life drawing at the Kewaunee Academy of Fine Art this Saturday, May 1 from 10:00am to 1:00pm. This is a great opportunity for you and your friends to explore all the opportunities available at the Academy and enjoy a few hours working from a live professional model. If you have never [...]
April 28, 2010
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Summer Workshops at the Kewaunee Academy of Fine Art
For more detailed information about any of our summer workshops, please email norma@kewauneeacademy.com or call 920-388-4391.
March 19, 2010
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194 New Repin Images Added to the Gallery of Artists
To view our gallery of artists at any time, simply mouseover “Gallery of Artists” along the top of the blog as shown in this picture. Image slideshow will advance automatically Born in the Ukraine, Repin is first trained as an icon painter. During his studies at the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg, where he [...]
March 15, 2010
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Sorolla: Diverse Artist Part Two
View part one of this article HERE. Second of May 1808 detail Joaquin Sorolla had an incredibly unique way of capturing scenes that makes them timeless. Many of his works, from the facial expressions to the incredibly real and vibrant color, to his portrayal of human emotion that endures through out the ages, afford the [...]
March 15, 2010
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FREE Figure Drawing Instruction
Figure drawing has been the standard measurement of an artist’s skills for hundreds of years, probably from the moment we first started capturing the living world around us. Figure drawing is a very important aspect of todays art, because it aids the artist in that it is one of the key methods of observation and [...]
February 19, 2010
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Independent Blog by the Students of the Kewaunee Academy of Fine Art
One of our students has recently started a student blog for the Academy. She is presenting a little more informal, working picture of what we are doing here and will be updating it regularly with news and photos of “whatever strikes the collective fancy of the Kewaunee students”. She has just posted photos of Craig [...]
February 19, 2010
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Sorolla’s Paintings: The Embodiment of Love
Reprint of 2005 Editions of Joaquin Sorolla by Blanca, Pons-Sorolla, arriving this week. Order book here! Running Along the Beach Joaquin Sorolla’s paintings are the embodiment of love. He saw love in all his Spanish people, in the land, the sea, the families, the children, and the blinding, sparkling sun of his birthplace, Valencia. Not [...]
December 16, 2009
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