Very cool. I think some of the artists did a bit of it last year (or was that impressionism....). If that was expressionism, then maybe I'll upload the pictures I have of the process. If that wasn't it. That was cool too. The opera was although sounding strange, morbidly beautiful. It must take tons of talent to do opera so that was amazing (however three hours! I hope I'd be able to last that long but I can't promise my 15 year old brain's attention span can be kept that long. I enjoyed the dances in the sense that the movements went from being really compulsive to something smooth, not exactly sure if that makes it expressionistic but I admire dancing for I am not lucky enough to have good enough coordination for dancing. I KNOW (adding some confidence to this post.) expressionism is an angsty, morbid, art movement that connects more with nature, mind, and spirit. I think it has more to do with the feelings and they way it is done, than how it looks. More of how it 'expresses' something. That could be all wrong (there goes all the BOLD CONFIDENCE I had before.). Last year we saw some of Egon Shiele's work, he was an expressionist. Newbies should look him up.
What Luke was saying today about how you don't really enjoy something if you suck at it really struck me because I was thinking about that the other day while looking at one of my favorite artist artwork she posted. She is at the point that she is so good that it looks like she has a lot of fun with her art. She can get more creative with it. I hope that by practicing and getting though the boring, aggravating practice that I can enjoy drawing more than ever! I really need to work on the anatomy I did improve a lot last year but I still feel I am a long way to go until I can draw more happily. I think I dwell on more if it is proportional than if it makes me happy creatively.
