Sunday, November 14, 2010

November 14, 2010, Mira Hecht


What do we do best?
About 25 SAA members spent a few hours with Mira Hecht, an Abstract artist and instructor at the Corcoran.

Florence Gang welcoming 25+ members
We started with an art history lesson (abbreviated) showing how painting evolved from realism to today's abstractionism.   We had a taste of movements such as Impressionism, Cubism, Expressionism, Modernism, and some of the work of Kandinsky, Klee, Miro, O'Keeffe.  We even touched on the emergence of photography and its affect on the painting of realistic scenes and portraits.

We were then treated to examples of Mira's work. x

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A very pleasant and informative afternoon.  Thanks Mira!  ...And for those who were there, please tell the rest of the members your impressions by commenting below....