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Looking through my sketchbook
So I was outside painting and drawing. I was trying to find inspiration for what I should draw so I drew Stewie. I was happy with my work but I thought it needed just a bit more. I just knew something was missing. So I went to show the drawing to my parents and my dad had the idea that I draw a new version of Stewie. And so I did. Stewie's name is now Li'l Drew, and as you can see has now has cornrows. I actually really like this one.
By Cici Johnson6 years ago in Geeks
The 5 Most Famous Paintings in the World
Art. Comes in many forms, but painting has claimed a lot of fame and recognition over the years. When someone says they're an artist, you typically envision them as a painter first. This is because painting as an art form has been around for more than 30,000 years, dating back to the first paintings that now reside in Grotte Chauvet, France.
By Faith Summer6 years ago in Geeks
Art: The Unrecognized Essential of 2020
Locked libraries and somber studios. Coffee shops gone quiet. These places, and the traditions within them, are the ghosts of the lives we led not long ago. To acknowledge as much is to recognize that there has been death, both literal and figurative, within our lives. Grief, amongst many other emotions, is as universal as it is individual, and as simple as it is complex. In a time as unprecedented as this, it is appropriate to grieve everything and anything, as this one emotion is responsible for so many others.
By Atlas Dance Collective6 years ago in Geeks
Morag Myerscough
One of the perks of working at an Arts University is being amongst the ambience of constant creative energy and activity. Within this environment you can’t help but feel infused by imaginative upliftment. The campus also homes a gallery which last month featured the visually vibrant work of Designer/Artist Morag Myerscough. The ‘We Make Belonging’ exhibition stood out to me in the gallery pamphlet like a brightly coloured blissful rainbow amongst the turbulent times of today. I was intrigued to learn more about this wonderful woman who merged pop-art esq patterns and poetic prose to brighten up towns and to bridge a sense of belonging amongst visitors from all walks of life. ‘Make happy those who are near and those who are far will come’. I searched the internet for a more in-depth bio and came across a 2018 Design Indaba talk in which Morag shared her story from her bohemian background and family’s circus roots to her current journey of transforming schools, offices, hospitals and concrete jungles into play pits of techno-colour joy.
By Jade Newman6 years ago in Geeks
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet, a French painter from 1832 to 1883, is best known for his connection to the impressionist painters and his rebellion against traditional salon painting techniques- although he always wanted his images shown in the salon, his ideas of what was proper for the salon to show was not usually agreed upon by the bourgeois patrons. His ideas bridged the gap between realism and impressionism as well as furthering modern ideals of social equality. He still wanted the construct of society to remain intact (for instance, the salon to still run) however he wanted to push society towards a new way of thinking about painting as a whole.
By Haley Bice6 years ago in Geeks
Art of the Spectacle
Ben Vautier is an artist not only associated with the artists of the Fluxus Movement in art history, but also those artists out of Nice, France in the 1960s. These artists out of Nice can be analyzed through the lens of The Society of the Spectacle (1967) --DeBord’s Marxist-based philosophy of economy. Ben Vautier’s Window in particular seems less resonant with the Fluxus ideals of many of his other works, especially when analyzed in the same terms as Arman’s accumulation pieces or Yves Klein’s blue monochrome paintings- and several other works of early 1960’s artists that will be mentioned throughout the essay. However, this analysis of Ben’s Window and ‘the spectacle’ changes when looking through the differences between his 1962 living sculpture in The Festival of Misfits exhibition and the 1993 exhibition of Ben’s Window at the Walker Art Center.
By Haley Bice6 years ago in Geeks
Arman's Vitrines: The Spectacle and the Display
Analyzing a constellation of artists in Nice, France, during the late 1950s and early 1960s-- such as Arman, Yves Klein, Martial Raysse, and Ben Vautier as well as Claes Oldenburg in New York at the same time-- it becomes apparent that the art of the time is interested in a dialogue about consumer culture and the impact that consumers have on the art market, as well as the post-war conventions of art gallery display especially the gallery window. Arman’s accumulation pieces, however, suggest not only a commentary on institutional conventions of artistic display, but also suggest a commentary on other types of conventional uses of the vitrine as a way to display and categorize objects. Arman’s work with vitrines brings up the convention of displaying artifacts within an anthropological or natural history museum, which can be compared with a display model in a store and can further be compared with an art object in a fine art museum. His work also suggests correlations among the vitrine, the storefront, and the gallery window. This triangulation leads viewers of Arman’s work to understand how collectable and recycled objects function as ‘unusable, yet sellable.’ This is best seen in the two to three years when the French New Realists invaded the New York 1962 New Realists exhibition out of Sidney Janis Gallery pointing to their contradictory mechanisms of display.
By Haley Bice6 years ago in Geeks
Not Everything Has To Be a Musical
When I was a senior in college, I finally wrote and directed my very first full-length play. At the showcase of its staged reading, I invited the audience to a short talkback afterwards to ask for the audiences thoughts and opinions on how the play could be improved (as a practice I'd like to try going forward in my playwriting career). One audience member chimed in and said:
By Shaine Strachan6 years ago in Geeks
