American Artist Appreciation Month
Andrew Wyeth American art, like all things, has evolved over the centuries from classical to modern, and everything in-between. This August we would like to celebrate the artists that come from the American tradition and have created a new way of seeing the world through their art. To start with we have a few American writers who use fiction to transport us to the artists of the past, in Tracy Chevalier's Girl With A Pearl Earring , a novel about the young woman who posed as the model for Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. This is an imagining of what the young woman's life may have been like in the 1600s Netherlands as she works for a tempestuous artist and his wife. Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy is a New York Times Best Seller that follows the life of artist Michelangelo Buonarroti and his interactions with the famous leaders of the day, including the de Medici family. On the nonfiction side, we have The Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist , ...
