Rick Janson Art Studio
My Art Journal
Category: Facing History
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One of the New York Times recommended books from 2025 was Sue Prideaux’s Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin. Gauguin was an artist who influenced many of the most important figures in 20th Century Art, including Picasso. He was championed by Degas and his relationship with Van Gogh has been imprinted on the public’s…
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The first time I ever went to Cobourg, Ontario was for supplies. My friend Dave had invited several of his high school pals (including me) to spend the weekend at his family cottage near Rice Lake. Being teenagers, it wasn’t long after we got there that we decided we needed some stuff. The rockin’ tunes…
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Claude Monet’s gardens and home in Giverny see a succession of tour buses arrive daily, including ours which had left early morning from Paris. Curiously, outside the compound, the town is full of artist studios, all proclaiming to be modern-day impressionists. A few days earlier we had been to the L’Orangerie in the Tuileries Garden…
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There were no mortar boards and gowns when I was awarded my BFA in the summer of 1987. It was a small graduating group, and instead of being held in the auditorium, NSCAD held the ceremony on the patio in the middle of the school, which at that time was housed above a block of…
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