BOOKS - PAINTING AND DRAWING - Happy Clouds, Happy Trees The Bob Ross Phenomenon
Happy Clouds, Happy Trees The Bob Ross Phenomenon - Kristin G. Congdon, Doug Blandy, Danny Coeyman 2014 PDF University Press of Mississippi BOOKS PAINTING AND DRAWING
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Happy Clouds, Happy Trees The Bob Ross Phenomenon
Author: Kristin G. Congdon, Doug Blandy, Danny Coeyman
Year: 2014
Format: PDF
File size: 80 MB
Language: ENG

Readers will know Bob Ross (1942-1995) as the gentle, afro'd painter of happy trees on PBS. And while the Florida-born artist is reviled or ignored by the elite art world and scholarly art educators, he continues to be embraced around the globe as a healer and painter, even decades after his death. In Happy Clouds, Happy Trees, the authors thoughtfully explore how the Bob Ross phenomenon grew into a juggernaut. Although his sincerity in embracing democracy, gift economies, conservation, and self-help may have left him previously denigrated as a subject of rigorous scholarship, this book uses contemporary art theory to explore the sophistication of Bob Ross's vision as an artist. It traces the ways in which his many fans have worshiped, emulated, and parodied him and his work. His technique allowed him to paint over 35,000 paintings in his lifetime, mostly of mountains and trees in landscapes heavily influenced by his time in the Air Force and stationed in Alaska.

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