Art for art's sake

Thanks Rainie,

Enjoy your art course and I hope you won't be too knackered to pop in from time to time. 

little-fi xx

Don't forget Rainie, I have O level art and will be happy to give you some pointers if you get artists block 

That's inane again isn't it. Ah well, too late now.

Thank you @rainieday this art course has been thoroughly enjoyable 

Thanks for the angels, I hope that you enjoy your course without becoming too knackered. I'm off to that London soon to see the Rodin exhibition at Tate Modern. When I booked it I thought it was a straightforward exhibition, but it turns out it's looking at how he made stuff rather than finished objects. 

Thanks Sal. I'm having a bit of a rest this morning after an intensive first 3 days on my course. My right hand swelled up with arthritis, which is really irritating, as well as rather painful, so popped some pills and thought I'd catch up with things and all of you on the forum.

Hi everybody. Hope you are all doing OK? It's the end of the second week of my art course and I'm enjoying it but am fairly exhausted by the weekend, but it's an OK sort of exhaustion if you know what I mean.

So I thought I'd pop back on with some new images for you to comment on. The artist this time is the American expressionist painter Mark Rothco. I don't know if any of you out there are familiar with his work or indeed have been lucky enough to actually see some. He produced a large series of 'colour field' paintings. I've seen some at the Tate in London and was also lucky enough to see a fair few when I was in Washington DC and went to the Museum of Modern Art there. These large pictures need space to view them and a relatively quiet gallery so you can sit in front of them without crowds of people milling about. They are very affecting and powerful. Colour has a profound effect on us and these paintings demonstrate that very effectively. So here are some, albeit small and therefore not so powerful, but there are many more out there. Go see if you get a chance.  Love to all. Rainie

PS If any of you want to paint yourselves, don't forget I'm happy to help and send out little projects.

I love the use of flour x

Have you had too many pub lunches Ruth or is it me being dense?

Where does flour come into this.?

O dear I meant to say colour.

the computer changed the word ha ha x

Brilliant Ruth, I was certain I had missed something. Will keep us both on our toes now!