This week in Art Speak, we look at one of the oldest and most important disciplines in the world, and how it has been appropriated and reinterpreted by artists: cartography, or the art of map-making.
A new book charts the gorgeous evolution of maps.
On an adventure, brothers Wirt and Greg get lost in the Unknown, a strange forest adrift in time. A wise old woodsman and bluebird Beatrice help them find their way. Along the way, Wirt's thoughts envelop him, while the wonder of the surroundings preoccupy Greg…
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We obviously think all our maps are works of art. The artistry involved can take years and it’s no wonder people hang them on their walls. Yes, they are practical and useful, but they are also beau…
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With the invent of GPS technology and map applications, paper maps are waning in use - but they are an essential material to English artist Ed Fairburn, who uses them as the canvas of his detailed portraits. Fairburn's work is an imaginative incorporation of the human form and topography. He's used maps of places from all over the world. The winding layouts of streets and rivers are enhanced to form wrinkles, veins, and other features of his subjects' faces.
Hand drawn city map of Raalte (called after some Dutch town). The city is situated on two rivers, on of them being an affluent, ending in the other. It's drawn as a city as it could have grown in multiple centuries: city center, former bastions, station close to the river side, apparment buildings from the 70s and newer neighbourhoods surrounding the city. In a word: a very European city. Why it is called Raalte? Well, I just like place names ending on -e and after having made up twenty of them, I started to run out of own names, so started using real place names. 2011.
La serie de fotografías Human-Reification de Paul Gisbrecht representan una crítica a este enfoque ‘neufertiano’, uniforme y regular.
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Process for little watercolors. I chose these three colors in order to master the art of maps. Now I realize they cover so many other scenarios and add the perfect atmosphere. Actually I used mostly only two of them. Watercolors are Winsor & Newton numbers Raw Sienna (552), Burnt Sienna (074) and Turquoise (654). Oh, loving turquoise and the palette it can generate.
Some parents steer their children along a straight and 'normal' path, but that wasn't to be for Bridget Steel-Jessop. As a child Bridget had the 'fear of
Image 2 of 6 from gallery of Touch It, Smell It, Feel It: Architecture for the Senses. Kate McLean's "Smell Map" of Amsterdam. The designer joins locals on walks in cities around the world to map the intensity, location, description, and associations of smells around their city. This particular map is on display at the Cooper Hewitt in New York. Image via Metropolis Magazine. Image Courtesy of Kate McLean
