Anna Held Audette is a painter, printmaker, and photographer with works in numerous collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery. She is Professor of Art at Southern Connecticut State University.
"As a painter and an art educator, I found Professor Audette's The
Blank Canvas to be both compelling and useful. The writer makes no
apologies for honoring the history of art. She supports her views
with apt quotations from artists and provides many suggestions that
art teachers should find useful. She knows more than anyone I know
about how to cope with 'creative dry spells,' and her treatment of
the artist's studio should impel anyone to view the private work
space with a fresh eye. I loved the book and wish it were twice its
modest size."—Al Hurwitz, author of Gifted and Talented in Art
"The Blank Canvas unlocks, unblocks and stimulates the creative
mind. Anna Held Audette offers a supermarket of ideas from the
history of art, presenting the wisdom of—and anecdotes
about—artists from centuries past up to the present day. It is
comprehensive, honest, and inclusive, offering comments and views
both psychological and intellectual, aesthetic and
practical."—Audrey Flack, author of Art and Soul
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