Painting the absurd
Still life by Sandy Quang. About 18X24, oil on canvas. I’ve had several students painting and drawing a sprawling still life over the last few weeks. Sandy Quang has done a bang-up job with it. Sandy has a BFA from Pratt and is finishing her MA from Hunter College, so I must share some credit …
I do love me a good conspiracy theory
January, from the fresco cycle Cycle of the Months by the Bohemian master Venceslao, c. 1400, in Trento. A Facebook friend posted a photo of a snowball he’d attempted to melt with a lighter. Turns out he was responding to a conspiracy theory that the stuff that fell over Atlanta wasn’t real snow. (It’s pretty exhaustively debunked …
This is just the coolest thing
MegaFaces: Kinetic Facade Shows Giant 3D ‘Selfies’ from iart on Vimeo. Sometimes the coolest art is made by engineers. Consider the giant morphing wall at the entrance to Olympic Park in Sochi. The designers originally designed the wall to add realistic color, but found that too creepy. “It looked like a giant was there. I mean, it was really …
What is the lesson here?
Underpainting of lime tailings in Rockport. I was a little confused about what I intended to do with those rocks at the bottom; that’s the problem with having your work so rudely interrupted. Every day I get up wondering how much I can work. It’s been a stop-and-start recovery, and I haven’t enjoyed my enforced …
When the Olympics included artists
The Charioteer at Delphi was erected in 478 or 474 BC, to commemorate the victory of a chariot team in the Pythian Games (a forerunner of the modern Olympic Games). The arts were part of the modern Olympic Games during its formative years. From 1912 to 1948, medals were awarded sporadically in architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture. The problem wasn’t so much in the …