www.artsmove.org http://www.artsmove.org Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 Examples of Great Visual Artists and Their Work http://www.artsmove.org/2011/08/06/examples-of-great-visual-artists-and-their-work/ http://www.artsmove.org/2011/08/06/examples-of-great-visual-artists-and-their-work/#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 admin http://www.artsmove.org/&p=10 The best place to get information about visual artists, whether contemporary or from other periods, is to visit a museum or an art gallery. Art galleries, at least in cities like New York, are usually free. Books and websites can also give information about visual artists.

Some of the best visual artists are the Brussels-born Ren Magritte, who puzzled and enthralled viewers with his precise and surrealistic paintings of impossible situations. Another is the “primitive” French painter Henri Rousseau, his canvasses full of huge flowers and tropical plants and animals with human expressions on their faces. Jean Louis Ingres painted gods, goddesses, odalisques and French society ladies with such realism the viewer wishes to reach out and touch their flesh, or the fabric of their sumptuous dresses, while the recently deceased Lucien Freud made his subjects, including Queen Elizabeth II, both monumental and repulsive.

Monet, another Frenchman, was famous for his impressionistic paintings of a cathedral captured at different hours of the day, and his lush, sometimes wall sized paintings of the water lilies at his famous garden at Giverny. The Spanish painter Goya was fearless in plunging into the depths of psychological horror. And of course, there are many many others!

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Being passionate is a definite quality in a performing arts person. While practicing their trade a person needs to play many character roles and they need to be passionately serious about each role to be successful in the business.Never heard of this before? Get up to speed here. Patience will need to be honed for anyone who wishes to enter the performing arts, because most of the time a person will have to wait days, weeks or months to hear back from an audition, if they are lucky enough to have been called back. A person also needs to have a hardy spirit to be able to handle all kinds of criticism, along with instructions from directors and to be professional at all times. An education is also a big plus because many directors like to see a performing arts school on a resume.

]]> http://www.artsmove.org/2011/08/02/what-it-takes-to-make-it-in-performing-arts/feed/ 0 How to Become a Professional Chef http://www.artsmove.org/2011/07/31/how-to-become-a-professional-chef/ http://www.artsmove.org/2011/07/31/how-to-become-a-professional-chef/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 admin http://www.artsmove.org/&p=8 Professional chefs are very talented and skilled in creating the most amazing meals. It often takes years of learning techniques and years of practicing to master becoming a professional chef. Professional chefs need a variety of different training and equipment to perform their best cooking.

The first thing to keep in mind when trying to become a professional chef is you need lots of experience. The best idea is to start working in restaurants very young or as soon as you think you want to be a professional chef. You don’t have to necessarily be a cook but just get some restaurant experience. This is a good idea to learn the lingo, the short cuts and the hassles of working in a restaurant. Gaining experience in other parts of the restaurant business will not only help you meet people in the field but also give you some experience should you ever want to own your own restaurant as a professional chef one day.

Next its a good idea to get some information on culinary training programs. No matter what type of chef you want to be it is best to have formal training. Culinary training programs will teach you the basic of being a chef. They will teach you things such as what knives to use depending on what your cutting and other things you will need to know. Although culinary training programs are great culinary school is best for anyone looking to be a professional chef. Culinary schools will teach you everything you need to know to become a professional chef. They will teach you about different types of cooking, different equipment and even guide you in the direction they feel is best for your cooking. There are great culinary schools all over the world and most are four year schools although there are so that are not.

There are some other things to keep in mind if you want to become a professional chef. The first is deciding what type of cooking you want to specialize in whether it be American, Italian, Chinese or any other of the many choices. Next you may want to look into business school or business classes should you want to own a restaurant one day. Learning the business aspect of cooking and owning a restaurant will just add to your experience. Finally one of the most important things that make professional chefs so good at their job is having a lot of passion and heart when their cooking.You thought this was good? Brace yourself: Top Chef Dreams: Are Cooking Schools a Rip-Off?

]]> http://www.artsmove.org/2011/07/31/how-to-become-a-professional-chef/feed/ 0 Why Culinary Art is Becoming a Popular Profession http://www.artsmove.org/2011/07/30/why-culinary-art-is-becoming-a-popular-profession/ http://www.artsmove.org/2011/07/30/why-culinary-art-is-becoming-a-popular-profession/#comments Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 admin http://www.artsmove.org/&p=7 Professional cooking is an easy job to get burned out on. This is something a lot of young people often do not know when they decide that they want to spend the rest of their lives in the restaurant business. Food shows on television have done a lot for the food service industry, there is no denying that, it has glamorized the profession of cook and made what was previously considered a dull, difficult job seem artistic and almost heroic.I was looking for more information and found it here. Referring to professional cooking as “culinary arts” is a good example of that. It has made cooks into heroes and stars and this makes the job seem attractive to youngsters who want to be famous.

The big problem is that professional cooking is not a whole lot like what is seen on television. The kids who dream about becoming the next celebrity chef fail to understand that the job is extremely hard, is as pressurized as any job gets and the odds are against any one cook ever owning their own restaurant let alone becoming famous for their food. In short, the popularity of professional cooking is largely based on myth. This is not to say that dedicated, obsessed few do not go all the way to the top, just that it is not at all easy to get there.

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