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What tasks will being a artist involve?
painting,drawing,using the computer to edit graphic designs,photography, and digital programming
What did most of vermeer's paintings depict?
Most of Vermeer's paintings depicted simple figures, often women, doing daily tasks in a typically Dutch house. These paintings are considered "genre paintings", portraying scenes from everyday life. Some of the most famous examples are The kitchen maid (c. 1600), showing a woman pouring milk, and The girl with the pearl earring(c. 1665), showing an ordinary Dutch woman.
What did george clausen's painting the stone pickers say about Victorian society?
First, some facts: Clausen's "The Stone Pickers" was painted at Cookham in Berkshire in 1887. This was a mainly agricultural area and the local population was mostly made up of poor farm labourers. Stone picking involved regularly removing the larger stones from the fields in order to prevent damage to the horse-drawn plough; these stones could be used to improve roads or as building material.This painting appears to show two women (one elderly, one young) engaged in collecting stones and dumping them in piles; but not only women did this work - another Clausen painting entitled "Stone Pickers, Midday" produced in 1882 shows a weary man engaged in the same task.In fact, the young woman who is the main figure in this picture was not really a farm worker at all, but the artist's long-term model and nursemaid to the Clausen children: she was Mary Baldwin, known to the family as Polly. He arranged for her to pose for at least seven paintings, in the guise of a shepherdess, a haymaker and so on; so it is true to say that her normal day-to-day tasks did not include picking stones. In that sense the picture is faked.Taken at face value, the painting demonstrates one of the everyday manual tasks carried out in rural England in Victorian times, many of which were just as they had been done since medieval times. It shows that women as well as men were engaged in these tasks; that the work was tiring, backbreaking, tediously boring, exposed to the extremes of the elements and very often dangerous.Again taking this impression at face value, we could conclude that Victorian farming methods had not advanced significantly since medieval times - the truth is that this was exactly the time of the industrial revolution in farming, with steam engines, threshing and baling machines, seed drills and a host of other modern devices. But manual work still continued alongside these new inventions - so really this painting only tells half the story. In that sense it tells us far more about the artist and his particular view of rural England than it tells us about Victorian society.
What did an apprentice for a master of renaissance painting do?
An apprentice's first tasks were humble: sweeping, running errands, preparing the wooden panels for painting, and grinding and mixing pigments. As the apprentice's skills grew, he would begin to learn from his master: drawing sketches, copying paintings, casting sculptures, and assisting in the simpler aspects of creating art works. The best students would assist the master with important commissions, often painting background and minor figures while the Master painted the main subjects. The few apprentices who showed amazing skill could eventually become masters themselves. A very few became greater artists than their masters. One legend tells of the young Leonardo da Vinci painting an angel so perfectly that his master Verrocchio broke his brushes in two and gave up painting forever in recognition of his pupil's superior abilities.
Who created the smiley face and when?
Harvey Ross Ball was the inventor of the smiley face. Born on 10 July 1921 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, he was apprenticed to a local sign painter, and later attended Worcester Art Museum School where he studied fine arts. He then served over two decades in the National Guard, and was posted in Asia and the Pacific during World War II. After the war, he worked for a local advertising firm until he started his own business, Harvey Ball Advertising, in 1959. The invention of the Smiley face came about in an attempt to boost employee morale after it dropped when State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, MA (now known as Allmerica Financial) purchased Guarantee Mutual Company of Ohio. Ball was employed as a freelance artist to create a smiley face to be used on buttons, desk cards, and posters. The Smiley was invented within ten minutes, and earned Ball just $45. The use of the Smiley was part of the company's friendship campaign whereby State Mutual handed out 100 smiley pins to employees. The aim was to get employees to smile while using the phone and doing other tasks. The buttons were very popular, and by 1971, over 50 million Smiley Face buttons had been sold. "I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright," Ball stated in a 1996 interview with The Associated Press. When he turned the drawing upside down, the smile became a frown so, deciding that was not such a good choice, Ball added two eyes and the Smiley Face was born. Harvey Ball died in April 2001, survived by his wife and 3 kids. He never regretted the fact that he did not patent his smiley face.
