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48 posts tagged art
See more of the new American gothic (the green kind) at Dark Rye’s Harpoon House feature. Clever and smiley, rooftops that grow, happy cats, and pleasant just-enoughness. Smart design and plenty of books. It’s the future.
Sydney Smith is from the windy east coast of Canada. He received a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and since then has illustrated dreams and fantastica for authors, musicians, and other inspiring artists. Sydney’s sketchbook
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There’s some How To Do It in here. Art, creativity, lunch. Oliver Jeffers Author Film 2013 (by Oliver Jeffers)
Inner Sympathy of Meaning and the Quilts of Gee’s Bend by Liz Hager | Venetian Red:
Loretta Pettway has spent her whole life in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, a tiny rural community largely cut off from the rest of the world since after Civil War by a cruel trick of nature. The Alabama River meanders around the town in a horseshoe shape creating a virtual island out of the community. Ferry service ran sporadically until the 1960s, when it stopped altogether. This physical isolation guaranteed that generations of Gee’s Benders would remain wretchedly poor and pretty well ignorant of the world at large—much less the New York art scene. Ironically, it was this very isolation that enabled the Gee’s Bend women to preserve their rich and beautiful tradition of quilting, passed down through four generations of mothers and daughters. In a further twist of irony, the quilts themselves have become the means by which the contemporary community has reconnected with the world beyond the bend.
At the de Young exhibition of the quilts last year, I vividly remember the moment when I turned the corner from the hallway into the first exhibit room. That first group of stunningly bold pieces took my breath away. I was dumbstruck. How could so traditional a folk form created by a group so isolated from the modern world appear so… well, strikingly modern? In their abstracted and geometric patterns, the quilts displayed an uncanny kinship to the 60s and 70s paintings of Frank Stella or maybe even Barnett Newman.
As I moved through the exhibition, the quilts offered me something that most of the work of Minimalists never has—quiet and intense joy…
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/other/geesbend/explore/catalog/slideshow/index.htm
We had the opportunity to collaborate with a good friend of ours Sarah Ann DiNardo…and create a video exploring her thought process behind doing what she loves. She is an incredibly talented artist, who creates very unique artwork that we have never seen before. So we were excited to document her creative process, and capture it on film…
Sarah DiNardo. Tape Artist. (by gnarly bay productions, Inc.)
Graphic We Love: Art Department Rules
We love that a nun came up with most eloquent set of guidelines for an art class. Here’s Sister Corita Kent’s 10 rules bestowed upon her students, courtesy of Lisa Congdon’s artistic interpretation via her blog.
(Image: courtesy of Lisa Congdon. Text by Jauretsi)
Part biography and part live performance, Beauty Is Embarrassing tells the irreverent and inspiring story of Wayne White, a one-of-a-kind visual artist and raconteur.
The film traces White’s career from an underground cartoonist in New York’s East Village to his big break as a designer, puppeteer and voice-over actor on Pee-wee’s Playhouse, for which he won three Emmy awards. From other children’s shows to music videos for The Smashing Pumpkins and Peter Gabriel, and through a dark period of struggle and self-reflection, White is a respected painter and performer who embraces the ragged edges and messy contradictions of life, art, and family with rabid humor and honesty.
Beauty Is Embarrassing - trailer - a film by Neil Berkelely (by GAT Channel)
The Fine Art of Coffee Portraiture
Here’s more evidence to back up all those studies on boredom inspiring creativity: Meet Mike Breach, barista extraordinaire, who “paints” everything — and everyone — into his lattes. “I’m an esspressionist,” he proudly proclaims. Just last year, Breach was idling away his customer-less hours in the back of a hotel kitchen with only a dormant espresso machine for company. He taught himself how to inscribe ornate hearts in coffee foam, with a bamboo skewer as his paintbrush.
We’re at the Smile To-Go, and he’s frothing some milk behind the counter; the shushing of the machine almost drowns out his words. He reflects. “It’s like, if something is lacking, you’ve got to find a way to make it exciting and fun. Right? I mean, I’m so happy that my old job was so boring! Otherwise I wouldn’t be making these! And this is just the beginning. I want to start a movement.” The milk is now pillowy, foamy-soft — perfect for the latte Breach is about to pour. He stares into his empty chestnut-colored canvas, and suddenly looks up. “I’ve been wanting to try Snoop. Let’s do that, yea?”
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