Art of Play
December 5, 2025
Artist: Mildred Thompson
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About
Mildred Jean Thompson (March 12, 1936 – September 1, 2003) was an American artist who worked in painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and photography. Critics have related her art to West African textiles and Islamic architecture; they have also cited German Expressionism, music (both American jazz and classical European) and Thompson's readings in astronomy, spiritualism and metaphysics as important artistic influences.
Warm-up/Project
We will be warming up this week with mark-making.
Please have available oil pastels, posca markers, watercolors and tempra sticks, as well as several pieces of warm-up paper.
In addition please have bristol board and watercolor paper to choose from for your project.
EARLY PAINTINGS
Untitled (Düren), circa 1964,
oil on board, 42.75 x 33.5”
Mushrooms II, 1964
oil on canvas, 54 x 30”
1980S PAINTINGS
Third Octave I, 1983, oil on board, 10 x 14”
Rebirth of Light Series, 1984, oil on board, 37.25 x 44”
Rebirth of Light Series, 1984, oil on canvas, 29 x 34”
Octave IX (also called Rebirth of Light), 1984-5, oil on canvas, 37.25 x 44”
1990S PAINTINGS
Mildred Thompson on View at SCAD Museum of Art, 2016. Image courtesy of SCAD Museum of Art
Magnetic Fields, 1990, oil on canvas, 70.5 x 150” (triptych
Music of the Spheres: Mars, 1996, oil on wood, 96 x 144” (triptych)
Music of the Spheres: Jupiter, 1996, oil on wood, 96 x 144” (triptych)
Installation view at Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, 2015
String Theory VI, 1999, acrylic on vinyl, 46 x 61.5”
Radiation Exploration, 1994,
oil on canvas, 81.1 x 133.25" (triptych)
1990S PRINTS & PASTELS
Advancing Impulses 36, 1999, screenprint,
37.75 x 25.5”
Wave Function III, 1993, intaglio vitreograph, 30" x 22.5" (image size 20" x 16")
Untitled, pastel on vinyl, 2002-3, approx 24 x 20”
Hysteries XII, 1991, oil pastel on paper, 43 x 35”
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