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Visual Artist in UT, painting Broadway 🎭 & traveling to paint the world🌎. Former @risd adjunct prof, Not active as much here, I'm on IG: @claralieu
Nov 9, 2020 16 tweets 8 min read
Norman Rockwell's painting "The Problem We all Live With" is an iconic painting, but in researching the viral image by Bria Goeller which refers to Rockwell's painting, I'm seeing that as famous as this painting is, many people do not know it. Here's a deeper dive: Many people have said there's no need for Goeller to credit Rockwell when presenting her artwork, and that it's unfair because Rockwell didn't credit his references either. Rockwell didn't have to, because the references were his own. Reference photo below of the a U.S. Marshall:
Nov 8, 2020 10 tweets 5 min read
Many of you have probably seen this viral image of Kamala Harris created by Bria Goeller and Goodtrubble; there are unfortunately many misconceptions and questions surrounding the image, let me explain what I've been able to figure out after doing some digging... But first, if you share this image, please credit Bria Goeller and Goodtrubble. They deserve the recognition and it's frustrating when artists don't get credit when their work is shared. instagram.com/briagoeller/ and instagram.com/goodtrouble/. Onto some explanations...
Aug 21, 2020 18 tweets 4 min read
For those of you who are teaching art online, I have learned a LOT since I started researching/teaching art online 6 years ago. Let me help spare you the months of grief with some best practices that will work at all levels, on any platform... You will never achieve a perfect translation from IRL to remote teaching. That's basically saying you want to translate a Pablo Neruda poem (written in Spanish) into Japanese, and get precisely the same results and nuances. Instead of mourning what is lost in translation....
Jun 10, 2020 18 tweets 4 min read
Some personal news: I'm leaving my position at RISD and moving to Utah. I always dreamed about being hired as a full-time, tenured professor but I have been watching my chances evaporate for a while. For the past 16 years, I applied every year to several positions. On the rare occasion (twice) that I got a first interview, I never made it past the first round. After a while it became clear that my ships were sailing; the people getting the positions much younger, with less experience and an exhibition history that was 1/10 of what I had.