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Visual Critique

November 25, 2011 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Visual Critiques, done in response to the work of colleagues, are opportunities to enlarge experience of disparate aesthetic languages. Shabnam is an Iranian sculptor in the first year MFA group. Her piece was a multi-storied stack of cardboard boxes with a viewing window cut in the bottom corner and the top story open to the ceiling. Fields of cut paper grass sprouted from the floor on each … [Read more...]

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Visual Critique

November 14, 2011 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Visual Critiques are paintings or drawings done in response to work done by other students. ABOVE: Fish — gouache, 6.5 x 10 inches (17 x 25 cm), 11/05/11 Couple — gouache, 11.25 x 15 inches (17 x 25 cm), 11/14/11 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Figure, Gouache & Watercolor, Painting, Still-life Indoor Tagged With: couple, fish, visual critique

Mid-term

October 29, 2011 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

A Japanese wedding kimono was loaned to me for a studio set-up with a vase of silk flowers. It's an opportunity for color, pattern, and drama. Two Visual Critique responses to oil paintings by two students. The Wednesday night model didn't show up so students took turns posing for the class; thank you Ying! ABOVE: Silk Flowers, oil on linen, 22 x 20 inches (56 x 51 cm), 10/28/11 Silk … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Figure, Gouache & Watercolor, Oil, Painting, Still-life Indoor Tagged With: flowers, kimono, visual critique, window

Visual Critique

October 22, 2011 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

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Visual Critiques are drawings done in response to other students's work. My drawings were made without preliminary sketches, worked directly from six paintings, work of half the class. Drawings for these assignments become the property of the artist whose painting is the original subject. 1.   George Bellows's lithos of prize fights came to mind as I began "Fighters". As Bellows' had done, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drawing, Figure, Ink, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: cow, Fighters, Laken, Pods, Reflection, Scream, visual critique

BU First Month

October 10, 2011 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

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Events are moving too quickly to post everything from the graduate school program on the blog. Here are highlights. The photographs are snapshots, hand held, daylight. The city paintings are influenced in part by recently reading Don DeLillo's White Noise. The story concerned an "airborne toxic event" hovering over Somerville, Mass, circa 1985. The next series of paintings use only black and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Acrylic, Collage / Color, Copies, Drawing, Figure, Graphite, Landscape Outdoor, Oil, Painting, Still-life Indoor, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: boston, city, geranium, nude, palette, traffic, visual critique

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