Robert Norman Ross (October 29, 1942 - July 4, 1995) is an American painter, art instructor, and television host. She is the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, an instructional television program broadcast from 1983 to 1994 on PBS in the United States, and also aired in Canada, Latin America and Europe. Ross transformed from a public television personality in the 1980s and 1990s to an Internet celebrity in the 21st century, becoming popular among fans on YouTube and many other websites after his death.
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Ross was born in Daytona Beach, Florida, to Jack and Ollie Ross (a carpenter and waiter, respectively), and grew up in Orlando, Florida. As a child, Ross consoled himself by caring for wounded animals, supposedly including armadillos, snakes, and crocodiles. One of these animals, a squirrel named Peapod, is featured in several episodes of the show. He has a half-brother, Jim, whom he mentioned on the show. Ross dropped out of high school in grade 9 to work as a carpenter with his father, Jack Ross, where he lost some of his left index finger. However, this does not affect the way he holds his palette while painting.
Military career
In 1961, then an 18-year-old Ross was registered with the United States Air Force and was hired as a medical record technician. He eventually rose to his rank as a chief sergeant and served as the first sergeant of the US Air Force Clinic at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, where he first saw snow and mountains which later became a recurring theme in his artwork. He developed a quick painting technique to create art for sale during a short daily work break. After holding a military position that requires it, in his own words, "loud" and "evil", "the one who makes you rub the toilet, the person who made you bed, the one who yells at you for being late to work", Ross decides that if he leaves the military, he will never shout or raise his voice again.
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Career as a painter
During his 20-year tenure with the US Air Force, Ross developed a taste for painting after attending an art class in Anchorage AS. club. He finds himself often at odds with many of his painting instructors, who are more interested in abstract paintings. In Ross's own words: "They will tell you what makes the tree, but they will not tell you how to paint a tree."
Ross worked as a part-time bartender when he found a TV show titled "The Miracle of Oil Painting", hosted by German painter Bill Alexander. Alexander was mentioned 16th century painting style called "Alla Prima" ( Italian for "first attempt" ), better known as "wet-on-wet", which allowed him to finish painting in a little under 30 minutes. Ross learns and gets very good at Alla Prima through Alexander shows, and starts selling the Alaskan landscape painted inside the new gold pot. When Ross started earning more money from selling a gold pot than his military job, he retired from the Air Force in 1981 after 20 years of service, possessing the rank of Sergeant Master.
He first went to Florida and studied painting under Alexander, then joined the "Alexander Magic Art Supplies Company" and became a traveling salesman and tutor. Annette Kowalski, who attended one of the sessions, became convinced that there was a great chance for Ross to succeed on her own, and persuaded her to do so. He invested his life savings in the company, as did Ross and his wife. At first the business was struggling; his permed hairstyle appears as a cost-cutting measure, when his usual crewcut pieces become too expensive. Ross grew increasingly uncomfortable with style in his final years, but kept it throughout his career.
The origins of the TV show, The Joy of Painting , are not clear. It was filmed at the PBS WPIB station studio in Muncie, Indiana.
The event runs from January 11, 1983 to May 17, 1994, but reruns still continue to appear in many broadcast and country areas, including the network of non-commercial digital sub-channels Create. During each half hour segment, Ross will instruct viewers in oil paintings using quick learning techniques from imagination that use limited paint palettes and break the process into simple steps. Art critic Mira Schor compared it to Fred Rogers, host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood , noting that Ross's gentle voice and slow speech were similar.
With the help of Annette Kowalski, Ross built a $ 15 million business, Bob Ross Inc., selling a line of art supplies and guidebooks, and marketing painting classes taught by instructors trained in the "Bob Ross method." All his income, he said, came from those sources; the show is meant to be a vehicle to promote the class and its products. All his paintings, including those made during his show, are donated to PBS stations.
Ross also filmed wildlife, squirrels in particular, usually in his garden, and he often picked up squirrels that were wounded or abandoned and other animals. Small animals often appear on canvas Joy of Painting .
Technique
Ross uses a technique of wet-on-wet oil painting, where painters continue to add paint over the still wet paint rather than waiting long enough to allow each coat of paint to dry. From the beginning, the program kept simple selection of tools and colors so viewers did not have to invest heavily in expensive equipment. Ross often recommends an odorless paint thinner (mineral spirits without odor) to clean the brushes. Combining the wet painting method using a single and two inch brush, and painting knife, allows Ross to paint trees, clouds, mountains, and water in seconds. Each painting will start with simple scratches that look no further than smudges of color. As he adds more strokes, the stain will turn into a complicated landscape.
Ross painted three versions of almost every painting featured on his show. The first was painted before recording, and sat on a horse, outside the camera, during filming, where Ross used it as a reference to make a second copy - one viewer actually saw it paint. After filming the episode, Ross painted a third version, more detailed for inclusion in his instruction book.
Influences
Ross dedicates the first episode of the second season of The Joy of Painting to Bill Alexander, explaining that "many years ago, Bill taught me this fantastic [wet-on-wet] technique, and I felt as though he was giving me a precious gift , and I want to share that gift with you [audience] ". As Ross's popularity grew, his relationship with Alexander became increasingly tense. "He betrayed me," Alexander told the New York Times in 1991. "I found 'wet wet', I trained him, and... he thought he could do it better." Art historians have shown that the technique of "wet-on-wet" (or all prime) actually originated in Flanders during the 15th century, and is used by Frans Hals, Diego Velázquez, Caravaggio, Paul Cezanne, John Singer Sargent, and Claude Monet, among many others.
Style
Ross is famous for his slogan that he uses when painting like a "happy little tree". In most of The Joy of Painting episodes, Ross will note that one part of his favorite painting is cleaning the brushes. Specifically, he likes his drying method that has been dipped in an odorless diluent by hitting him with a thinner tin (then hitting the box for the early season, and the dustbin for the next season; sometimes he will hit his brush with a hard bin, and says he "hit the bucket") and the horses. He will smile and often laugh loudly when he says to "defeat the Devil from it". He also uses a slightly sanded palette, which is necessary to avoid catching strong studio reflections.
Ross wore clothes that he thought would be "timeless appearance" (jeans and button-down shirt). He also uses a minimalist set and speaks as though he's just talking to one audience.
When asked about his relaxed approach, and his calm and contented manner, he commented,
I got a letter from someone here some time ago, and they said, "Bob, everything in your world seems happy." That's sure. That's why I painted. That's because I can create the kind of world I want, and I can make this world as I want it to. Shoot, if you want bad things, watch the news.
The landscape he painted - usually a view of mountains, lakes, snow, and logs - was heavily influenced by the years of his life in Alaska, where he was stationed for much of his Air Force career. He repeatedly stated on his belief show that everyone has an inherent artistic talent and can be an artist who has given time, practice, and encouragement, and for this purpose often likes to say, "We make no mistakes; we are just happy accidents." On In 2014, the FiveThirtyEight blog performed a statistical analysis of 381 episodes in which Ross painted directly, concluding that 91 percent of Ross's paintings contained at least one tree, 44 percent including clouds, 39 percent including mountains and 34 percent including mountain lakes. By his own estimation, Ross completed more than 30,000 paintings in his lifetime.
Other media appearances
Ross liked country music, and in 1987 he was invited to the stage by Hank Snow at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. The audience gave him great applause; she was a little nervous at first, but felt better after joking with the crowds. Snow was then given a personal painting lesson by Ross.
Ross visited New York City to promote his hardcover book, The Best of the Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, and painting techniques to studio audiences several times. One visit in 1989 he appeared on The Joan Rivers Show . He returned in 1992 for live performances with hosts Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford. There was one in 1994, when Phil Donahue, who watched his videos and liked his painting techniques, invited him to a show to promote his work. Ross brought five spectators on stage to make the paintings and even Phil himself made the paintings and showed them in the episode.
In the early 1990s, Ross did some MTV promotional venues that, according to American City Business Journals, "fit well with the X generation obsession with everything ironic and retro."
Personal life
Ross has two sons, Bob and Steven Ross, with his first wife, Lynda Brown. Steven, also a talented painter, occasionally appeared in The Joy of Painting and became Ross's certified instructor. The last episode of Season 1 is a question-and-answer forum where Steven reads a series of "how-to" questions posted by viewers during the season, and Bob answers them one by one, engineering by technique, until he has finished the entire painting.
Ross and Brown's marriage ended in a divorce in 1981. Ross and his second wife, Jane, had a son named Morgan, who was also a great painter. In 1993, Jane died of cancer, and Ross did not remarry.
Ross is known to be very secretive in his life and loves privacy, with only a narrow circle of friends. Several interviews with only his circle of close friends and his family can be found in the 2011 PBS documentary Bob Ross: The Happy Painter . His company, Bob Ross Inc., protects his intellectual property and privacy to this day.
Disease and death
Ross was diagnosed with lymphoma in the spring of 1994, which eventually forced him to retire after the last episode of The Joy of Painting which aired on May 17, 1994. He died at the age of 52 on July 4, 1995. His body was interred at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Gotha, Florida, at under the plaque marked: "Bob Ross, Television Artist". In particular, Ross concealed his diagnosis from the general public, and his lymphoma was not known outside his family circle and his friends until after his death.
Legacy
Since his death, Ross has been embedded in several examples of pop culture. Commenting on the 2017 news story about him, the entertainment website, Screen Rant will note that the artist "continues to have one of the two most remarkable lives of every media character in the last few decades." References to him have been included in television shows including Family Guy , The Boondocks , and Peep Show . She will also appear in the Epic Rap Battles of History series of YouTube.
The videos became popular with fans of autonomous sensory mode meridians (ASMR).
Google celebrates its 70th birthdays with Google Doodles on October 29, 2012. This depicts Ross's painting of "g" letters with landscapes in the background.
In 2015, Bob Ross is included in an advertisement for HGTV Sherwin-Williams paint along with Leonardo da Vinci, Andy Warhol, Michelangelo, and Vincent van Gogh.
As part of Twitch Creative's launch, Twitch.tv hosted a nine-day marathon from Bob Ross 'series The Joy of Painting' which begins on October 29, 2015 to commemorate what will be his 73rd birthday. Twitch reported that 5.6 million viewers watched the marathon, and because of its popularity, made a weekly re-broadcast with a season of The Joy of Painting to air on Twitch every Monday, and will have a marathon episode of October 29 each. A portion of advertising revenue has been pledged to charities, including St. John's Research Hospital. Jude Children.
In June 2016, Ross 'Beauty Is Everywhere' series was added to the Netflix lineup. The 30 minute episode is taken from season 20, 21 and 22 from the original series The Joy of Painting.
In May 2017, Ross's likeness was added as a skin to Sylvanus in the video game MOBA Smite . From inclusion, the Venturebeat website will continue to call it, "one of the most bizarre crossovers in game history," At one point Ross will have his own video game to be released on the Wii, Nintendo DS and PC with development handled by AGFRAG Entertainment Group even though this is not never succeeded.
In 2017, a board game entitled Bob Ross: The Art of Chill was released and brought to by Target Stores.
In November 2017, a spoof from Bob Ross and his TV show, The Joy of Painting , was used as the basis of a teaser trailer for the movie Deadpool 2 . In the same month, Chia Pet models in the likeness of Bob Ross were also released.
References
Further reading
- "PBS Video Mashup Honors 'Joy Of Painting' Host". Huffington Post. Associated Press. July 26, 2012 . Retrieved October 29, 2012 .
External links
- Official website
- Bob Ross in Finding the Mausoleum
- Bob Ross Channel on YouTube
- Bob Ross on IMDb
- Bob Ross on Twitch.tv
- Bob Ross Gravesite
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