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 […]
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 […]
Here’s Koren Stembridge with information about Internet resources for Youth Art Month.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Faith-Ringgold.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/24/2000 Faith Ringgold Faith Ringgold is a remarkable African American artist and writer, and Black History Month is a good time for every child to become familiar, if they aren’t already, with her stunning work. Her artistic career began with pictures that drew their […]