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 …
We’ve arrived!
New York, 1911, by George Bellows Until recently, the National Gallery in London considered its purview to be European painting of the 13th through 19thcenturies. One has to smile at its recent decision to finally acknowledge America’s coming of age as an artistic powerhouse. It has done so by the acquisition of a 20th century …
How to Draw a Tree (for Sandy)
Along the Bridle Path, by little ol’ me. Early spring in a place I used to ride, a long time ago. We tend to see trees as silhouettes instead of three-dimensional objects. This is because the branches that move toward us in space become smaller as they get closer, obviating the primary visual clue of …