Kitagawa Utamaro: Dream of the Kamuro, from the series Profitable Visions in Daydreams of Glory (Miru-ga-toku eiga no issui) - Museum of Fine Arts
I am so in love with my fellow art teachers' blogs! I recently stole a fantastic idea from Dali's Moustashe of these marvelous blue Picasso ...
It is fascinating how the smallest details, patterns and textures intertwine and repeat in the world around us. Each structure resembles another one. We, ourselves, are a smaller repetition of a bi…
2019 Topic 5: Maps and Plans Well hello everyone, Keren here and we're being whisked off around the world for a look at artistic cartography, blueprints and contours ( and not of the make-up artists kind!!). This topic is rich with imagery hopefully the following pictures will guide our way through meandering streams, rivers and delightfully designed structures. We start with this gorgeously designed travel journal by Emma Williams, which combines several ways of using map images. The little compass and other details finishes it perfectly. Emma Williams If the idea of being artistic using a map appeals to you, then look no further than this intricate and clever portrait. Ed Fairburn We use maps and plans to guide the way and show us where we should go. Maybe you'd like a more stylish representation of where you are, just like this papercut marvel. KMO Studio I love the way that the different undulations in the landscape are represented by the fabric and stitching. Mary Bryning Perhaps you prefer more abstract representation? In pursuit of inspiration for this topic, I learned about choropleth (or thematic) mapping and I thought it would be amazing to have a modern stamped or painted styled representation of it. Source Some plans are stylish even without purporting to be! I adore this patent drawing for a 1932 photographic camera. I'm seeing dry wiped Fresco Finish over some paint or cardstock and perhaps some white embossing powder!! Displate We all know the sort of vision that appears in our heads when we think of vintage maps. I thought this example was a particularly stylish one. Retrographik Then from the old and aged, to the very modern and cool.. Source Maps don't need to be literal, they can be representational. I think that he next two are gorgeous! John French Jazzberry Blue There are some wonderful ways to incorporate maps into creative projects. We have jewellery; Source and then this emotional piece of poetry for use at a wedding. I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking that this would be a great idea with Alison Bomber's sentiment stamps! Stonephoto or this cute and quirky dog portrait? @fetchandcanter When I think about maps and plans, my memory is dragged back to A level Geography and having to create contour diagrams and plans. This image is both arresting and ingenious. The Craftiest Fox I thought we'd finish off with this wonderful piece of map art. Chris Kenny You're going to love the projects we have coming up for this topic. We are not doing the linked challenge for 2019, so if you want to create along with us and this topic, please share on our social feeds so we can see what you get up to. If you need more map and plans inspiration, check out this Pinterest board. The best places are Instagram @paperartsy or post in PaperArtsy People Group on Facebook. Make sure you tag us in your contributions, we love to see what you get up to in your creative world!
Curated by Stephan Diederich and Yilmaz Dziewior Like many Pop artists, James Rosenquist drew on the teeming image world of postwar consumer society. But unlike many of his peers, he…
At the end of last year iconic futurist and conceptual artist Syd Mead died at the age of 86. His highly original work was brought to life in movies such as Blade Runner, Tron and Aliens. In addition to films and…
New York artists Beth Galton and Charlotte Omn have been photographing food that has been cut down the middle.
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Juliette Clovis is a multidisciplinary french contemporary artist. Her plastic work is organized around 3 big topics that are the links between human and nature, the opposition between life and death and the dialogue between tradition and modernity. For years, Juliette Clovis worked on female identity and the representation of women in contemporary society and its history. In her most recent works, her women are completely transformed into hybrid beings, mixes of history, myths and chimerical dreams. The female bodies are invaded by a profusion of wildlife and flora elements, evoking a nature that is both soft and worrying. Like a Hitchcock-inspired scene, we can almost hear the noise of the jungle: the flapping of a bird’s wings, the slither of a creeping snake or the croak of a frog. Fascinated by the wild beauty of Nature discovered during her different trips, the artist draws inspiration from it to create her human jungles and to explore the wild aspect of human body. She questions the balance of power between Human and Nature. Conjugating ambiguity and employing metaphors, Juliette’s work wobbles between a prophetic picture announcing the birth of a new living being, human body with a half-animal half-vegetable face; and the onset of death caused by an hungry nature wanting to take back its rights. Art is matter and matter makes Art in Juliette Clovis’ work.
Artist Sarah Graham creates bright and colourful paintings of food that could be described as ‘still life’, however many of her paintings focus on wrappers, sweets and desserts. Sarah G…
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The acclaimed children's book author also was an ahead-of-her-time botanist
I was looking for an artist inspired by food and came across Jerry Wilkerson, a modern pointillist artist! I am using this food artist as inspiration to use in my KS4 art project exploring mark mak…
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Fantastic selection of work by Syd Mead, a renowned American neofuturistic artist famous for the concept art behind iconic movies such as Blade Runner, Aliens …
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New York artist Robin Antar sculpts hyper-realistic stone sculptures of iconic American products, clothing and food.
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“Style = Fart” I love this guys work especially his most famous piece, with the writing on his body (lecture poster, Cranbrook Academy of Art and AIGA Detroit, 1999). I first found that…
I was looking for an artist inspired by food and came across Jerry Wilkerson, a modern pointillist artist! I am using this food artist as inspiration to use in my KS4 art project exploring mark mak…
9 June – 16 September 2012 at Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.
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South Florida-based artist Amy Gross creates hand-embroidered and beaded fiber sculptures that contain colorful nods to the natural world. Bees dot the surface of a work formed from leaves, honeycomb, and moss, while other works contain kaleidoscopic arrays of birds, mushrooms, and other fungi. Although the sculptures reflect a natural symbiosis, their structures are fictionalized in both their color and composition. None of the elements of her pieces are found objects, but rather each handmade from craft store supplies and objects like yarn, beads, wire, and paper. More
© Eika. Quartz crystals are used in expanding the mind to touch the spirit world.
Meet Seana Gavin, the cut and paste magician summoning a psychedelic universe with her collages, in this editorial taken from our Summer 19 Issue.
Beginning of the Year Activities: Team Building Collection! Start the year off running with these FUN and COLLABORATIVE Back to School Activities! Provide the opportunity for your students to get to know each other with team building activities and ice breakers! Common Core Aligned activities also included! Contents Include Create Your Group Name & Mascot…………….4 Design Your Group Logo or Mascot………….…5 Our Final Design………………………………………..….6 Back to School Matching Game…………………7-11 A Game of Back to School Telephone………..12 Brainstorming Classroom Rules………………..13 Classroom Goal Setting……………………………….14 Interview with my Classmates!......................15 Interviews #2 & #3 Continued…………………….16 Let’s Grow Together as a Class………………….17 Two Truths and a Fib!.........................................18 Get to Know Your Group Members………………19 Ice Breakers Spinner Game……………………20-21 Back to School Board Game………………………..22 Back to School Game Board………………………...23 Game Answer Key…………………………………………24 Thank You Pages……………………………………….25-26
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