Famous Artist #11

Cy Twombly

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Born in 1928 and died 2011

He is an American painter, sculptor and photographer.

For the most part his work is large, his style is a mix of graffiti and calligraphy and a simple background color.

It’s said that he influenced Basquiat.

Young Twombly began to take private art lessons with the Catalan modern master Pierre Daura

He studied art at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Washington and Lee University and Art Students League of New York. He became friends with Rauschenberg and was told to go to Black Mountain College.

His first solo show was in 51 at Samuel M. Kootz Gallery in NYC. At the same time his work was influenced by Kline's black-and-white work.

In 54 he was in the army as a cryptographer in DC.

He worked in New York, where he became a figure and shared a studio with Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns between 55-59.

He was interested in tribal art, using the painterly language of the early 50s to invoke primitivism.

often inscribed on paintings the names of mythological figures.

Famous Artist #10

Mark Rothko

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Born 1903 and died 1970

American painter with Lithuanian Jews descent. He refused to adhere to any art movement, but can be under the abstract expressionist.

He was able to speak Lithuanian Yiddish, Hebrew and Russian.

At the Art Students League of New York he saw students sketching a model and that is where his art journey began. He then went to Parsons The New School for Design and also he took courses at the Art Students League.

He moved to NYC where his influences and art learning grew.

1929 Rothko began teaching young kids to drawing, painting and clay sculpture at the Center Academy of the Brooklyn Jewish Center.

In the 30s Rothko and a group of artists met with Milton Avery where they learned that making art for a living is possible. He also learned about color from Avery.

"ultiforms" developed into the signature style

He even went so far as to recommend that viewers position themselves as little as eighteen inches away from the canvas. so that they might experience a sense of intimacy, as well as awe, a transcendence of the individual, and a sense of the unknown.

Hiking 1-29

Hike 1 - Hike 2- hike 3 - hike 4 - hike 5 - hike 6 - hike 7 - hike 8 - hike 9 - hike 10 - hike 11 - hike 12 - hike 13 -

hike 14 - hike 15 - hike 16 - hike 17- hike 18 - hike 19 - hike20 - hike 21 - hike22 - hike 23 -hike 24 - hike 25

hike26 - hike 27 - hike 28 - hike 29

1- west stockbrige MA 2- philmont NY 3- ghent NY 4 - ghent NY 5- chatham NY

6- chatham ny 7- chatham NY 8- chatham NY 9- redrock NY 10- old chatham NY 11 - austerlitz NY

12 - Delmar NY 13 - hudson NY 14 - spencertown NY 15- hudson NY 16- new lebanon NY

17- new lebanon NY 18- stockport NY 19- great barrington MA 20- copake NY 21- stuyvesant NY

22- catskill NY 23- chatham NY 24- ghent/harlemville NY 25- styvasent NY 26- styvasent NY

27- hyde park NY 28 hyde park NY 29-claverack NY

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I did go hiking recently but did not make it to the top and the map they had of the hike was hard to read for me and i learned my lesson to bring water on bigger hikes if i decided to do a big hike. the hike was to Mount Washington in MA..

hike #29

Won Dharma Center in Claverack, NY is a meditation retreat with a lot of land you can explore. There is one big trail that takes you around the proporty. There are some great views when you are hiking up the first path. It was very cool to see what great views there are around here. A lot of it is open fields.

When you walk to the buildings they are so cool. The architecture is amazing. This was my first time here. It’s definitely a good place to go hiking since its a long trail.

Hike #28

FDR’s house and museum in Hyde Park NY. A heads up, you do need tickets to go into the museum and you buy those at the main building. In the main building they have a mosaic of the different buildings and historical sites near by. In the main building there is a cafe and a theater and some more info about him and the property and a gift shop. We did not go into his house we just did the museum.

There is a garden around where him and his wife and dog are. There are a few buildings on the proporty. Also The museum its self is pretty cool because it takes you through his life. My favorite part of the museum was his desk and the achieve room.