Pablo Picasso famously said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” Perhaps that can be done by taking children to art museums, showing them great art, and, most importantly, giving children the space, the materials, and the encouragement to make their own art.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Back-to-School-Via-the-Solar-System.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/29/2002 Back to School By Way of the Solar System Transcript They’ve just done a wonderful thing in our town on what used to be a rather dull, bare street that was devoid of any real visual distinction. There’s a long sidewalk, that’s really […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Maxfield-Parrish-Visionary-Artist.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 7/25/2002 Maxfield Parrish Transcript Maxfield Parrish was the most popular artist in America in the early decades of the 20th century. In a survey taken in 1925, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cezanne and Maxfield Parrish were thought to be the three greatest artists of […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Boy-with-a-Camera-Jacques-Henri-Lartigue-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/13/2002 Boy with a Camera Transcript It’s the birthday today of one of the world’s great photographers, Jacques-Henri Lartigue. He was, most certainly, the world’s greatest child photographer. Lartigue was born in Paris in 1894, the second son of a prosperous family. Jacques-Henri’s father […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Children-of-the-Depression-in-Photos.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/27/2002 Children of the Depression Transcript The facts are still staggering, as Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin remind us in their new book, Children of the Depression. In 1933, they write, “34 million men women and children were entirely without income. That was […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Michaelangelo-Youth-Art-Month-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/6/2002 Michelangelo Transcript March is Youth Art Month, and today is the birthday of one of the most famous artists in the west, Michelangelo Buonarroti. who was born in the small Tuscan town of Caprese in 1475, the son of the town’s mayor. His […]
That’s the African American artist, James Butler, talking about his early commitment to art on a documentary film by Julia D’Amico called The Highwaymen. Everyone has been talking about the Highwaymen in Florida for the past few years.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Maud-Tausey-Fangel.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/2/2002 Maud Tausey Fangel, Baby Painter Transcript In the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s — if you saw a sketch or portrait of a child on the cover of Ladies Home Journal or Woman’s Home Companion, or inside the magazines advertising, say, Colgate’s Talc Powder, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mary-Cassat.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/23/2001 Mary Cassatt Transcript In her famous painting from 1879, of a little girl sprawled on a comfortable blue flowered easy chair, Mary Cassatt, the American Impressionist painter broke nearly all of the rules of portrait painting at the time. Her subject is not […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Youth-Art-Month-Van-Gogh.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/29/2001 Van Gogh’s Birthday Transcript Yesterday was the anniversary of Vincent Van Gogh’s birthday. The supremely difficult life of the Dutch painter — who was born in 1853 and died in 1890, when he was just 37 — has become inextricably linked with the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kids-Space-1.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 1/5/2001 Kids-Space Transcript Kids-Space is an award-winning website that offers children from around the world a place to post their original art work, writings, and musical performances. It’s one of a growing number of internationally oriented sites that connect children […]