What Causes the
Spark of Creativity for you?
Where do Artists get their ideas?
How do they generate creative works?
"Modern life is a sea of images. Our eyes are flooded by bright pictures and clusters of text flashing at us from every direction. The brain, overstimulated, must rapidly adapt to process this swirling barrage of disconnected data. ...
How to survive in this age of vertigo? We must relearn how to see. Amid so much jittery visual clutter, it is crucial to find focus, the basis of stability, identity and life direction. ...
The only way to teach focus is to present the eye with opportunities for steady perception -- best supplied by the contemplation of art. Looking at art requires stillness and receptivity, which realign our senses and produce a magical tranquility."
-- Camille Pagila, Glittering Images:
A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars.
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A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars.
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Standing on the shoulders of Giants.
A traditional art student exercise is to copy paintings of admired artists.
Picasso copied the masterpieces,
giving his own take on famous paintings.
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Las Meninas1656 Velazquez
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| Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907 |
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| Wild Woman by GJ Gillespie |
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| Emily Carr Totem Figure |
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| Emily Carr |
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| Forest Scene After Carr by GJ Gillespie |
Arshile Gorky
"Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into unknown areas."
Gorky spent decades making art in the style of artists he admired.
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| Paul Cézanne |
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Roberto Matta
Invasion of the Night (1942)
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| Arshile Gorky Landscape-Table, 1945 |
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| Untitled (Cubist Figure) Arshile Gorky |
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| Gorky Dreaming by GJ Gillespie |
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| "Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian". By Giovanni Bassi, 1525 Inspired by stories of the saints |
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| Blame Sebastian by GJ Gillespie |
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| Jacob Jordean Prometheus Bound, 1640 Inspired by Greek Myth |
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| Punishment of Prometheus by GJ Gillespie |
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| Saturn Devouring his Children by Goya, 1822 |
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| Kurt Cobain |
I Wanna Be a Rock Star
After Goya by GJ Gillespie
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Last Supper after Dali by GJ Gillespie, 2014
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| Double Elvis after Warhol by GJ Gillespie |
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| Untitled by Lee Krasner |
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| Windmills of Your Mind #1 by GJ Gillespie |
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| Kouros Statue of Warrior Height 6 feet c. 530 BCE marble |
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| Sketch of Kouros Statue, Sana Monica Art Museum by GJ Gillespie |
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| Kingdom Within by GJ Gillespie |
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| Man Disguised as Spirit by GJ Gillespie |
-- Sir Isaac Newton
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| GJ Gillespie speaks about artists who inspire him at the Faith in the Humanities Conference, Northwest University, March 22 2016. |
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