Lending a Hand - A Game

Go to the National Gallery of Art website, search the painting collection and select five paintings containing what you consider to be the most interesting hand or hands. E-mail the information back to this blog. The most creative and interesting submissions will be posted.

Your selections may be from paintings from any era or style, single or multiple figures, narrative or not. There are no restrictions on the number of hands or what they are doing. The hand or hands may be a single detail or from the entire painting. 

Link National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

 Jacque-Louis David, Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, 1812, NGA

What Painters & Why? - A Meme

List 5 painters are you thinking about now and answer why? 

Limit yourself to ten words for each artist. Give credit to Ken's Blog. Link your answers back to: http://kenconleys.blogspot.com.  Tag new people to participate. 

1. Rembrandt - drawing, remarkable expressive possibilities

2. Cezanne - awareness of the picture plane, composition, color

3. Uglow - drawing in relation to the picture plane, the figure

4. Stanley Lewis - his understanding of pictorial space

5. Elmer Bischoff - color/light, marks, spontaneous & responsive painting