Artist Lydia Sohlberg Deere
Study various schools, traditions and masters..., but do not let them take away from you the most precious gift of the Creator, your own individuality. Individuality and Nature in honest partnership will always create new and fascinating works of art that will never grow old.
--Sandzén
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--Sandzén
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Lydia's Assignments for Professor Sandzén
Definition of Art*
“Art is that which the untutored mind considers ugly.” -- Sandzén
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"Formerly art was taken to mean the creation or reproduction of beauty, usually thru the mediums of paint or sculpture.
Modern understanding of art is the perfect expression of an idea or the perfect adoption of an object to its use, no matter how humble or common.
Art may be applied to every phase of life. A building, a garden, a picture, a room are all compositions in different mediums and each one may be a piece of art.
The human eye unconsciously seeks beauty and proportion in every object which it rests upon.
Superfluous ornament is really what makes most things unbeautiful." -- Either Lydia's definition or unknown
*From Lydia's handwritten notes as shown at end of page.
Modern understanding of art is the perfect expression of an idea or the perfect adoption of an object to its use, no matter how humble or common.
Art may be applied to every phase of life. A building, a garden, a picture, a room are all compositions in different mediums and each one may be a piece of art.
The human eye unconsciously seeks beauty and proportion in every object which it rests upon.
Superfluous ornament is really what makes most things unbeautiful." -- Either Lydia's definition or unknown
*From Lydia's handwritten notes as shown at end of page.
Source: The Centennial of Bethany College, 1981 publication - Early Bethany College Sandzén Art Class -
Photograph by Bror Gustaf Gröndal
Lydia's Papers for Sandzén
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The Classic Point of View by C. Cox
History of Italian Painting by Mather
Some Outstanding Tendencies of Modern Art from Delacroix to Cezanne.
What Dynamic Symmetry Means, Geo Bellows
Notes on Willard Huntington Wright
(S. S. Van Dine)
Lydia's Drawing Exercises for Sandzén
ABSTRACTION ART \ REPRESENTATION ART
present tendencies -- all great art
ART OF TODAY - EXPRESSIONISM
COURSE I -- PROBLEMS FOR DESIGN
COURSE II -- CREATIVE DESIGN -- ADOLFO BEST-MAUGARD
COURSE III -- DESIGN
A Lists of European and American Artists
Lydia's Credits Needed and Art Supply List
* - Definitions of Art -
Lydia's Original Handwritten Notes
Lydia's Original Handwritten Notes
Go HERE, to Students of Sandzén 2019 Exhibition.
For a 1993 critique of Sandzén's work by New York City William H. Gerdts, American art historian and author of the renown 1984 book, American Impressionism, go HERE.
For a 1993 critique of Sandzén's work by New York City William H. Gerdts, American art historian and author of the renown 1984 book, American Impressionism, go HERE.
"Let Us Celebrate Them"
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Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
* * *
All color photography throughout Swedes: The Way They Were is by Fran Cochran unless otherwise indicated.
Copyright © since October 8, 2015 to Current Year
as indicated on main menu sections of
www.swedesthewaytheywere.org. All rights reserved.
