MadSilence did a great post on scary art in honor of Halloween.
This particular painting is was painted in 1892 by Allen C Gilbert at the age of 1...
The Metropolitan Museum in New york has just closed a show called Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
Francesco Colonna Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (The Strife of Love in a Dream of Poliphilo) Cou...
Michael Stravato for the New York Times
Cy Twombly at Cy Twombly Gallery in Houston in front of the gallery's largest painting, "Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor."
I would...
"Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper."
Pablo Picasso
After reading this great quote in Alla Prima I d...
I read about the Ashok Bhowmik exhibition at Tamarind Art in New York City till August 15th, in Art News Blog.
The Insect and The Angel Ashok Bhowmik
the gallery says:
"Ash...
This documentary movie from 1955 enables us to see the process of the work as Picasso starts with a relatively simple painting and turns it to a masterpiece.
Thanks to the art corner for r...
This is my first time seeing Amy Bennett's work, and unfortunately, it is not in person. She will be showing through February 14th at Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica.
Amy Bennet...
Have you ever had the slightly unpleasant pleasure of wondering around art galleries? walking into a space full of beautiful (or not so beautiful) art, only to want to turn around and run right b...
Some art work needs to be seen up close and in person, such is the art of Jeni Spota, Who is showing in the Santa Monica Museum of Art through August 22nd. If I was in the area - I would mak...
Susan Lowe who is probably who comes to mind when thinking about someone who has done it all, or pretty much so. She has been an Actress, factory worker, professor - in short a well rounded multi e...
Kerry James Marshall was commissioned by SFMOMA to paint to murals for the atrium. A blurb from the museums site
Mount Vernon and Monticello, the estates of American presidents George Was...
Mandalas seems to be the name of the game this season, and a lot of shows and artist are all about Mandalas. Joanne Mattera has recently posted about some of these upcoming shows, along with great ...
Julie Beugin is a young artist whom I just discovered through Leah Sandals blog - Unedit My heart. Sometimes, when I am surfing aimlessly around on the Internet, a word or the composition of web ...
Kesha Bruce has her own gallery space which she shares with another artist. It seems that other than the up sides of having your own gallery space there are some downsides to, for example a lot of ...
So - from both sides of the table, applying to a job, or on the other hand a juried art show could look like this.
Out of the two people in this picture, I must say I least envy the lady with ...
No way to avoid the international economic meltdown, and clearly the art market is going to be hurt as well. According to TAN Dealers will be hurt most.
The theory: speculation in art (and yo...
If you don't live in NYC, and didn't go especially then you, like me missed the Affordable Art Fair, where everything was priced between $100 to $10,000.
Judging by Sunil from Simplistic Arts , p...
It is so hot and dry right now, that I feel the water content in my bodies is slowly vanishing just as it is everywhere else on the planet. We have stopped watering our grass to save water, and inste...
One of the most influential exhibits in all time was the 1863 , Salon Des Refusees , hat was initiated by the Napoleon III who commanded that all the rejected artists from the annual Paris Salon, A ...
Sometimes the most surprising things inspire me.
Elizabeth Perry
OK, not the most surprising things, I just seem to run into them when I least expect to, and there effect on me is immense...
Rosemary Cosentino Mapping Journey IV,Oil on wood panel,12" x 12", 2003
This painting, which I find absolutely wonderful is one of a group of stolen pieces by the artist Rosemary Co...
I am not sure what this test is good for, except some fun and bragging rights (if you do well) but you might as well give this color IQ test a go. I found it on Maykr who found it on J en Bradfor...
It seems as if there is a whole trend (I guess it could be called that) of recreating famous photographs in different media. My first reaction to this, when I read about it in Leslie's blog was ...
One of the blogs I like to visit on a regular basis Is Color Chunk. The blog of artist John Tallman, Is a never ending source of visual inspiration. Color chunks from differnt sorces - most of them s...
I found this very disturbing Pig Skin Portraits by Heide Hatry .
It immediately brought to mind the old argument of the validity of Duchamp, and shock art...
I am not saying that her work isn...
When I was younger everything was in books, if you wanted to know an artist you had to buy or in many occasion you received from some uncle instead of the present you always wanted an album of thi...
Steven LaRose is a new name to me
Her Sabotage of Icarus 2009
Systematic Fiction
When the Ostrich Soared
Marvel at Nothing
I wouldn't usually post so many paintings...
One of the great things about the Internet is that you can run into a whole lot of wonderful stuff without intending to.
Some Such stuff, for me, is the Art of Cable Griffith , which I was unfami...
No matter what your finacial situation, whether you were severly hurt by this current ressesion or not, it is not a situation to be ignored. Everyone is rethinking there choices and lifestyles ...
What I like most about the Internet is finding out that people have given some really serious thought to topics I haven't given a moments thought to, thus acquiring something else to occupy my mind w...
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