Lucille Marcotte: “Hymn to Beauty”

Published on 17 June 2009 by Courtney in Fine Art

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Lucille Marcotte: “Hymn to Beauty”

If you live in the Northeast, don’t miss Lucille Marcotte’s latest show at Galerie Saint-Dizier, in Montreal.
Lucille’s artwork is powerfully idiosyncratic and imbued with sensual and sonar qualities. Her canvases are always depicted with the use of strong black strokes of paint portraying a body, frequently female, on white canvas. The white areas [...]

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Modeling is Hard Work

Published on 11 September 2007 by Courtney in Fine Art

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Modeling is Hard Work

I have been modeling for almost a decade now, and am still surprised at how difficult it is. Luckily, I don’t have to worry about tripping on the catwalk or wardrobe malfunctions. My concerns tend to focus on the temperature of a studio or how to deal with an uncontrollable itch. If [...]

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Pocket-Sized Art for Art’s Sake

Published on 09 August 2007 by Courtney in Fine Art

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Pocket-Sized Art for Art’s Sake

A couple of months ago my husband Cliff was shopping around for fun and unique business cards. While I tended to be a fan of miniature Moo Cards, he was more drawn towards translucent plastic or metal. Somehow while helping him search around for more options, I discovered the world [...]

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100 Years of Frida

Published on 22 June 2007 by Courtney in Fine Art

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100 Years of Frida

In celebration of 100 years since Frida Kahlo’s birth, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Mexico City will host the most complete exhibition of Kahlo’s works. The exhibit which opened on June 13, and will run for two months, is comprised of 354 of her works, including 50 handwritten letters, 100 photographs of the [...]

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Mural painting has long been used to illustrate history, real and imagined: from ancient cave paintings of Lascaux, France to today’s contemporary images. Two very notable frescoes are Raphael’s School of Athens, from the Italian High Renaissance, and North American Modernist Diego Rivera’s Man, Controller of the Universe. Although created nearly 400 [...]

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Nushu: Secret Women’s Writing

Published on 05 June 2007 by Courtney in Fine Art

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Nushu: Secret Women’s Writing

One day in the 1960s, an old woman fainted in a rural Chinese train station. When police searched her belongings in an effort to identify her, they came across papers with what looked to be a secret code written on them. This being the height of the Cultural Revolution, the woman was arrested and detained [...]

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As mentioned in Part 1, the price of artwork should support an artist receiving a livable wage and can be accomplished by following the 50/50 rule: 50% of the price should cover all the costs of creating the work, and the second 50% will account for the efforts of advertising, overhead and selling it. By [...]

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