Nadia Daniels-Moehle
Imagination and Reality or Chromoluminarism: Inspired by Neo-Impressionism Acrylic on canvas In 1886, art critic Félix Fénéon coined the term Neo-Impressionism. The movement began with Georges Seurat’s painting “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.” Seurat used a painting technique called “divisionism” or “chromoluminarism”: instead of mixing colors, Seurat placed colorful dots next to each other…
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Grace Lin: Within the Spiral Eye Watercolor, ink, India ink on paper Stories have the power to transport us into other places, other times, and into the lives of other people. Only within stories do we even get close to becoming someone else. The sometimes fictional recounting of life and thought and emotion, the act…
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Childhood, Connection, and a Collection of Sevens: Inspired by Jamie Sams and Native American Medicine India ink on paper My childhood isn’t over. Some say that childhood ends when you turn 18, but as I near my 19th year, I feel closer to my childhood every day. When I was little, I knew how to…
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Rajmohan Gandhi: Turning Potential into Reality Ink, India ink, watercolor, gouache on paper Nearly one year ago, spring brought out my restless self, a self who needed dedication and focus, who needed meaning and inspiration. So, I looked behind me, in my past–mostly–and there, art was set aside on a shelf, unpracticed and waiting. In…
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A Crusade of Children: Art and a Poem Inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five Ink on paper Submitting to The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library’s (KVML) literary journal “So It Goes” has become a tradition: when I was sixteen, I received my first writing rejection from them, and it inspired me to keep writing and submitting. …
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Coincidental Inspiration by Way of Danger and Perspectives: Inspired by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Graphite on paper, animated The Creative Meanderings #7: Coincidental Inspiration by Way of Danger and Perspectives …art is like a coincidence, a place for perspectives to weave themselves together, to grow open in their difference. For the past 6,868 days or so,…
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