I wanted to let you know how much I care so I tattooed your name onto my hand. I promise I'll never have to laser it away like the others who have a name written on their bodies - because your name is special ;) #jokingaround
Sometimes you just have to take a step back and connect the dots to see the big picture. Photo of the day. How fascinating aren't these sculptures by Australian Ron Mueck?! Ron Mueck’s Studio, 2013. Photo by Gautier Deblonde. I found this video on how the baby sculpture was made. It looks like it requires lot of craftsmen, skills and time... Prussian blue is one of my favorite colors, counting both the color and the consistence. I think that when artists have "a blue period" or "a red period" it is not only because of the color itself, it also has to do with them liking to work with that specific color in terms of transparency, consistency and mixing qualities. Since colors are made by for example herbs, metals or in a laboratory it will never be the same thing working with a cadmium red as a prussian blue (which is made synthetically). This is almost an artwork in itself - blue, white and plastic! (Serves as photo of the day)
I absolutely love these shower curtains by Colombian Oscar Muñoz. For me, they are the perfect mix between art and interior design. He started with this theme in 1984 and I think they are timeless!
I'm getting out of palette papers, but there is a really easy way to make another kind of throw-away palette. Just use plastic paper to cover your palette or cutting board or any other flat surface, voila! Why is it that we are so fascinated with “the best”, “the richest” “the most extreme”? British Damien Hirst is on top of the salary list and he is a multifaceted artist famous for spin painting, dead animal installations, hyper realism, pills, butterfly wings, decorated skulls and much more. (picture from Google images) He made this Mickey Mouse "spot" image to be actioned out for charity. (pictures borrowed from http://www.damienhirst.com/) It is really fun to play around with circles, rectangles and triangles so for today’s image I’ve chosen to do my version of Donald Duck in somewhat the same style. It will be my "picture of the day" since I will post something artsy I've made every day in February.
I found this book today and it is so interesting! You get to know the story and inspiration behind famous paintings. There are a lot of prostition hidden in these motives. For example, did you know that ballerinas didn't have much status when Degas lived? It was a very common entry way to become a prostitue! Also in this picture by Seurat you can see signs of prostitution. One prostitute is fishing on the left side - a way to camouflage what she was really up to. It was a common thing along the Seine at that time, and they were aiming for the soldiers (you can see a couple of soldiers in the background). To make a painting with prostitutes in Madrid today, I guess it would be motives of articles in the newspaper (a lot of them in El Pais, one of the most popular Spanish news papers), in the park Casa de Campo, near the metro station Sol where they are waiting in their mini-skirts and high plastic heels, on the Internet, bordells of course, or at the high-end discos and private parties where you find the luxury prostitutes. It is still such an industry. |
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