June 2010
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“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.”
– Paul Gauguin
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“Art for arts sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
Charles Horton Cooley on Artists and Success...
“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one”—Charles Horton Cooley
May 2010
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Art Success is in Our Hands
“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one” Charles Horton Cooley “A man paints with his brain, not with his hands” Michelangelo “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time” Thomas Moran
An Untamed Florida Unknown to Traveling Artists
Artists were traveling across the country as early as 1700 painting American landscapes. However, Florida was very isolated and untamed. Travel was not safe for artist or tourist until after the second Seminole Indian war and the Civil war.
April 2010
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Artists Sent with Writers to Florida
Many artist discovered the beauty of Florida they had never known while they were a freelance illustrator. Magazines like Harpers Weekly and Century Magazine sent artist with writers to the Florida tropics to do articles as early as the 1860’s.
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Florida Artists
Many great artist both American and foreign like Thomas Moran, John Singer Sargent, George Iness, Winslow Homer and many others at one time had made Florida their home or visited and created some spectacular Florida masterpieces.
February 2010
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Excerpt from source:
From WGCU News, this is...
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FGCU Radio Interview about Buell Whitehead →
Excerpt: “We’ll learn all about him and his lithographs.”
January 2010
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December 2009
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“The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.”
– Vincent Van Gogh