Ep. 4, Influences Vermeer to Michelangelo
Newberry discusses the influences of Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Michelangelo in his current work in progress.
Michelangelo’s Drawings: The Conceptual Transformation from Touch to Sight
Newberry Art Tutorials Conceptual Flip One of the most rewarding studies of painting and drawing is discovering how a thought, perception, or emotion is transformed into a purely visual medium. Michelangelo’s drawings serve as examples of translating the perception of touch to sight. In other words, his drawings convey to our sight not what we …
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Art Beyond Commissions: Exploring the Deeper Purpose and Meaning of Creativity
A teenage acquaintance wanted to catch up with me after decades. He lived in a Beverly Hills mansion with his family and was attended to by a tutor, nanny, manager, assistant, and trainer. In the driveway were five black SUVs, and in the kitchen area were seven security monitors with live footage of the premises. …
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Ayn Rand’s Blind Spot
One of my heroes and a favorite author is Ayn Rand, specifically, “Atlas Shrugged.” I read it when I was 19 years old after I had decided to give up a professional tennis career and become an artist. The book was a powerful confirmation that I was on the right path. However, one major thing …
The Muses
Recent Work and Chapter from My Upcoming Book, Figure the Future The one place where I feel calm sublimity is in the Atrium of the Classical Greek sculptures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. Tenderness and care are the specific feelings. The closest analogy I can think of is being taken care of …
Energize Your Art, Introduction and Chapter One
INTRODUCTION The college art classroom was extraordinarily messy with easels, open shelving, unfinished canvases stacked upright, props for still-lifes, and high windows with brightly-diffused light from northern exposure. The 64-year-old Edgar Ewing, a wonderful man and artist, was my first art teacher. I was seventeen, and he taught me an art lesson I will never …
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Visual Art Simplified
Michelangelo Rothko Form Yes No Light Yes Yes Depth Yes No Humanity Yes No Shadow Yes No Composition Yes Yes Visual Perception Yes No Reality Yes No Depicts Emotion Yes No Gesture Yes No Line Yes No Anatomy Yes No Color Yes Yes Color Theory Yes No Light Theory Yes No Philosophy Yes No Proportion …
Terrorism and Postmodern Art
There are people in the world who can’t stand to see that beauty and creativity exist. The guy who took a hatchet to the Pieta of Michelangelo. The Taliban leader who chose to blow up the Buddhist cliff sculptures.
The Wizards, Chapter 5 From Evolution Through Art
Young Da Vinci and Pure Light Vibrations If a young artist was fortunate, he would have guidance from a living mentor. Up to that point, the artist would be limited to having imaginary dialogues with the paintings, reality, and his works. So many times, as a teenage artist, I wished Michelangelo could have told me how …
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