M.C. Escher [Guardian]
Great fan artist
Nov. 11th, 2019 06:37 amRemembering Joan Hanke-Woods. I had the pleasure of publishing several of her works in my zine. [Black Gate]
Thanx to File 770
Thanx to File 770
Repurposing
Dec. 16th, 2018 05:53 amA Lutheran pastor is melting down purity rings to make a vagina sculpture. [ChurchLeaders]
Thanx to Avedon's Sideshow.
Thanx to Avedon's Sideshow.
Art vs. Entertainment
Mar. 7th, 2018 05:56 amOnce again, Neil deGrasse Tyson, who once said that science can do anything philosophy can, only better, demonstrates Richard Feynman’s remark that a scientist outside her area of expertise can be as wrong as anybody else. John Scalzi discusses,
Thanx to Whatever.
Thanx to Whatever.
What to do with the mundane world
Nov. 23rd, 2017 06:34 amAdam Hillman makes art.
David Imus made a map.
Thanx to Metafilter
ETA: Which of course are the two things to do with it. If you love it, may your hands proclaim that your eyes have loved. If you don’t, find ways to get through it.
David Imus made a map.
Thanx to Metafilter
ETA: Which of course are the two things to do with it. If you love it, may your hands proclaim that your eyes have loved. If you don’t, find ways to get through it.
The cool kids of the art world always laughed at Norman Rockwell because he was so square and representational. He kept painting that way and presumably cried all the way to the bank, but he also did something else. With The Connoisseur he did to abstract expressionism what postmodernists always want to do to their predecessors. (Something I learned only recently: Rockwell always worked from models, so in order to do this painting he first did his own Jack the Dripper “painting” and copied it.)
Sam Spratt has painted nine pictures of African-Americans in the style of the master. This is not an expert opinion, but I think he is a worthy successor.
Sam Spratt has painted nine pictures of African-Americans in the style of the master. This is not an expert opinion, but I think he is a worthy successor.