Celebrating and advancing figurative art's 40,000-year cognitive revolution through my art and books.
Figure the Future By Michael Newberry Presented by The Atlas Society, 2008 The premise of this talk is that the heroic and beautiful nude is contemporaneously linked with human evolutionary advancements. The great nudes witnessed the development of individuals rights in politics, with reason replacing superstition in the humanities, and with authenticity.
https://youtu.be/c6M2fIr32mY Thanks to Dana Ross for creating this video. August 2012. This is about the inspiration, the creative process, and color theory for Adam and Eve.
https://youtu.be/VEhnh_YGr4A 3 min 6 sec Thanks to Dana Ross for the video and audio. About expressing being one with the Universe, anatomy, how does the light drive home the theme, color theory, and layers of techniques that merge with the theme.
Newberry Art Tutorials Critiquing Art: Look for What is Alive Courbet, The Painter's Studio, 1855, oil on canvas, 12 x 20 feet Representational art students are taught to be critical. During critiques, the stress is on the work's problems. It is not uncommon to see students turning red with embarrassment or anger. Sometimes one will …
Newberry Art Tutorials Expressing artistic vision, aside from all of the technical stuff, is really no more difficult than a child, left to his imagination, creating a little universe out of paper and crayon. On the other side of the spectrum, da Vinci and Michelangelo went beyond the confines of being craftsmen to establishing themselves …
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