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I happy to announce that the art history section containing quotes from prominent historical artists is now complete. In the past week I have added quotes from these following artists Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, James A McNeill Whistler, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin,Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso,Georges Braque, Piet Mondrian, Marc Chagall, Giorgio De Chirico, Paul Klee, Franz Marc, Max Beckmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Jacop Epstein.

This week I will be adding more South African artists to the historical South African artists section and I will be spending more time on my latest oil painting and trying to finish the painting this week.

This week I have been working on a new section featuring quotes on art from famous artists through out art history. I am about one third of the way through with the section and currently have quotes from the following historical artists: Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Nicolas Poussin, Jacques-Louis David, Jean - Auguste - Dominique Ingres, Eugene Delacroix, William Blake, John Constable, Gustave Courbet, Alfred Sisley . I will be completing this section over the next week or two.

I also want to welcome the following artists to the South African Artists Directory added over the last week: Magrit Prigge, Susan Nind-Barrett, Isabel Le Roux , Nicky Chovuchovu and Hosea Matlou. Remember that all artists, both South African and International, are welcome to apply for inclusion into the Arcy Art Artist Directory.

Arcy Art Original Oil Paintings

This week I will be taking a break from updating the Art Dictionary but I will be updating it periodically through out the year. I have been some research and I have a collection of quotes from prominent artists throughout the history of art. During the next few weeks I will be adding these collection of artists quotes to the art history section. I personally found these quotes interesting and at times inspiring. It was interesting to see how opinions on art changed over the years and an in some cases stayed the same. At times prominent artists in the same era would have contrasting opinions about art which reinforces the subjectivity of art.

I a have done some work on my latest oil painting this past week but I would have liked to have done more. I am at a stage in the painting where I often slow down and run low on inspiration and I need to make more of an effort to complete the painting. Aspiring artists often think that they can only paint when the inspiration strikes them but if I had to always wait for inspiration I would hardly ever complete a painting. Sometimes it takes effort and willpower to sit in front of the canvas but it usually goes much better after a few minutes of work.

Arcy Art Original Oil Paintings

The past week I have been working on the Art Dictionary containing explanations of terminology used in art. The art dictionary is sorted alphabetically and I am currently busy with the letter 'F" section. At this moment the art dictionary is by no means comprehensive but I will be working on it through out the year and my goal is to make it the most comprehensive art dictionary on the net.

Work on my latest oil painting has been going well. I am currently busy with the second layer of oil paint and I have added some new elements in the painting from the original sketch I did. I decided to bring symbolism into the painting and I feel it really brings something new to the painting. The three symbols I added were a tree without foliage, an empty seed pod and an empty cocoon. These are loaded symbols in themselves and combined with my existing concept I believe they bring new levels of meaning to the painting. In the past I have been reluctant to stray too much from my original idea for a painting and I feel that being able to add new elements so far into a painting is a positive move for me.