Lace up your shoes and take a stroll with News 25’s Lorraine Weiskopf in today’s edition of Live Local, a series you can catch here on News 25 on Thursdays.
Lace up your shoes and take a stroll with News 25’s Lorraine Weiskopf in today’s edition of Live Local, a series you can catch here on News 25 on Thursdays.
Take a - stroll with news 25's lorraine- - - - weiskopf in today's edition of- "live local," a series you can- catch here on news 25 on- thursdays.- in honor of this weekend's pete- anderson festival,news- 25's lorraive weiskopf visits - the walter anderson - museum of art in ocean springs- a museum dedicated to the - work of peter's brother.- - in the anderson family there- were three boys - peter, walter, and mac.
All - three boys were artists.
Peter- and walter used their creativit- to work as a team.- "walter would decorate the pots- and forms peter threw.
And they- had a really cool - relationship.
Peter would - pioneer these cool glasses and- pottery ceramic and - - - - anderson would come in and- decorate them with his signatur- style."
- walter anderson's creativity- didn't stop on clay, his- block painting would also leave- an impression.- "in the 1940s' he would carve - out large scale lynomion blocks- he would carve out- - - - these decoratins an design and- print them on discontinued- wallpaper.- one example of his block- printing is "the ugly ducking"- most of his prints were very- large since they were on- wallpaper.- "he believed that making these- and propagating them widely was- a way for - people to have art that had an- appetite for beauty but not a - - - - lott of money."
Walter would- seek his inspiration in - solitude.
He- would take many trips out to- horn island, rowing out to- the island for weeks at a time.- "when he was out there her woul- paint these wonderful - watercolors.
These are- his most personal works.
Exampl- here of that is this awesome- alligator gar.- he would use typing paper,- humble materials to make these- visionary - artworks.
The whole purpose for- him was to connect with nature.- walter anderson was very- private, majority of his- watercolors - were locked away in a box in hi- - - - room at the shearwater cottage,- not discovered until after his- death.- "there was a padlock on the - door, they cam back to get his- things, they busted open the- door they discovered thousands- of water colors that he had mad- on horn island- the room has been relocated to- the museum and they now - call it "the little room," it's one of their most popular - exhibits- and shows a never ending day as- it goes through the - cycles of the day, starting wit- a rooster crowing at- sunrise.- "it was his way of preserving - nature so he didn't always have- to go to horn island- wildness to experience- everything he'd seen."- if you would like to learn more- - - - about the local artist plan you- trip to the walter anderson - museum.
Also be sure to tune in- next thursday as news 25's- continues highlighting- places of interest along our- coast.
In oceansprings, - lorraine weiskopf, your local - choice.
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