Who painted this??

Claudemir Bonfim · 03-22-2005, 02:40 PM

Name: John William Godward
Born: London, England
9 August 1861
Died: London, England
13 December 1922

You can find more about him at http://www.mezzo-mondo.com/arts/mm/godward/godward.html

Hope it helps.

Claudemir Bonfim · 03-22-2005, 02:48 PM

A few of his paintings...

John Crowther · 03-22-2005, 02:56 PM

I was guessing Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912), whose work is very similar.

John C.

David Draime · 03-22-2005, 03:04 PM

THANK YOU so much Claudemir. Is that the translation of the painting's title that you gave?..."How Sweet to do Nothing"?

And Janel, you are in luck!! I just took this photo, so here it is. It's gigantic - about 7 X 10 feet. Students are right now coming in to see it for the first time. They are so delighted with their work - as they should be. They worked hard - I pushed them hard, many were hesitant to go dark enough....I have reminded them that the quality of this piece represents the collective average of all the students - not just the best ones. Over 1800 "adolescent hours" went into it. I'm proud of them.

And these are all ART 1 students...(!)

David Draime · 03-22-2005, 03:20 PM

To give you some sense of scale:

Jean Kelly · 03-22-2005, 03:30 PM

Wow! My high school Art1 teacher got fired for being drunk on the job. I would have loved to have you as a teacher.

Jean

Claudemir Bonfim · 03-22-2005, 03:46 PM

That's right David!
It's a very common expression in Italian.

And that's a great and big project!

Richard Monro · 03-22-2005, 04:59 PM

What a great teaching tool. You could spend weeks teaching about seeing, values, perspective, chroma and so much more just from this one project. Fabulous idea and results. You and your students justly deserve a rousing round of applause!

Cynthia Daniel · 03-22-2005, 06:54 PM

What a great art project. As a child, I loved to draw and I used to always get A's in art. In high school, I excitedly started my first art class. But, the teacher ruined me for good. After some basics of color wheel and mixing paints, we were told to spend the class session painting a landscape. Uhhhh - but there was none to view nor were we given any reference material. We had to just make it up from our head. I froze and spent the whole class session going deeper and deeper into withdrawal, fighting back tears and swore I'd never take another art class in my life. I didn't. I'm sure I would have done much better with you as a teacher.

Terri Ficenec · 03-22-2005, 08:55 PM

And it turned out so beautifully!

A couple of years ago, as an experiment, I taught my daughter and a couple of her friends a little art class. One of the projects they did was a little acrylic painting where the reference image had been cut up into (i think 12) numbered squares and they painted each square into that numbered square on a gridded piece of canvassette (in random order --except that the one piece that would identify the subject matter was reserved for last--so that they wouldn't know what the overall picture was). The resulting paintings were quite nice, and I think far better than they would have been had the girls known the subject matter. That lack of 'knowledge' forced a real examination of the reference and removed any preconceived notions or symbolic representation.

What a neat idea to break up the pieces and divvy them up among so many different students -- they've done an outstanding job! I've already called my daughter in to show her this collaborative piece... and will mention it to her friends as well.

It's just so impressive! Your students must be thrilled!