• Van Gogh (A post-impressionist known for highly intensive emotion, color and movement, became known as the father of Expressionism).
o Notes: van Gogh wrote much about dreaming and awareness. He understood the night the stars, the movements of the wind on wheatfields, not from an intellectual understanding but from an awareness of an embodied knowing. He drew constantly. Drawing was the cornerstone for him and journaling was for his understandings. He worked on many preliminary drawings working out the direction of his brushstrokes before he painted. Drawing is where one practices in the seedbed of inspiration.

• Cezanne (spanned the Impressionist, Post-impressionist, and Cubist movements– painted en plein air with Pissarro – was seen by Matisse and Picasso as the ‘father of us all”).
o Notes: He did not try to recreate a pictorial representation; he took his sensations and perceptions and filtered through his intellect by conceptualizing a way of working the picture plane as an assemblage of ideas of deconstruction and reconstruction.

• Bonnard (leading figure, a postimpressionist influenced modern art, painting intimate settings with personalized colors with subjects as symbols, influenced by Japanese work).
o Notes: We need others for inspiration. Bernard found his work pleasurable his sketches were humble; they were his shorthand. He painted from memory. What we draw or paint from memory I call illuminated memory because it is illuminated by what was and is important to. We’re called to paint from our core values for our sketches are to be imputed with meaning, to capture our innocent naïve impression. It’s all about life, life with meaning, and to express and share that meaning.