Chris Dorosz, a Canadian artist, uses a grid of acrylic rods and paint to create some very interesting sculptures. To achieve this, Dorosz covers the rods in tiny paint drops and puts them together to form three dimensional creations.
The Times calls it a “Magnificent and hugely ambitious exhibition.” It’s quoted right there on the Tate website. What it turns into, however, is something completely different, something along the lines of Turner the Competitive Cockney Gnome who Tried to Outdo Everyone without Ever Having an Original Idea.The Times calls it a “Magnificent and hugely ambitious exhibition.” It’s quoted... more
Forty small-scale paintings due to become part of the Galleria Ricci Oddi collection are on display in PiacenzaForty small-scale paintings due to become part of the Galleria Ricci Oddi collection... more
(Rock Point, AZ) - Videos produced by two Pittsburgh area churches led by Pastor Susan C. Schwartz that sent missionaries to the Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, Arizona in July 2009.
Volunteers from several faith traditions and churches painted murals and did other work at the Navajo Lutheran Mission including the Hope Lutheran Church of Forest Hills and St. John Lutheran Church in Swissvale.
Hope Lutheran Church of Forest Hills
353 Ridge Ave
Pittsburgh, PA
15221-4111
1-412-242-4476 (church office)
Blog about 2009 NELM trip by volunteers from several Pittsburgh area churches including Hope Lutheran Church of Forest Hills and St. John Lutheran Church in Swissvale: http://scs1249.blogspot.com
Preview story on April 9, 2009 in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Pittsburgh Live about area church group heading to NEML to paint. Pastor Susan C. Schwartz heads Hope Lutheran Church of Forest Hills and St. John Lutheran Church in Swissvale and Kathy Gaberson, a Hope Lutheran member. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_619790.html
More about the flute music featured in this video:
Travis Terry is a native Flutist of the Pima Nation who is born of the indigenous Gila River Pima Nation in Sacaton, Arizona.
On his myspace page, Native flutist Travis Terry says:
"I grew up surrounded by ethnic music and instruments of long ago, including the Native flute," Terry said. “As a child I had natural appreciation for music, which contributed to me becoming a self-taught flutist in my adult years. My military service has sent me around the world exposing me to the musical traditions of various cultures."
"Ethnic music was a continual interest and drew me closer to this dream of creating music. I have always been grateful to my parents (Irving and Caroline) for supporting my dreams and at the same time continually teaching me and my sisters (Denise and Dawn) the indigenous Pima culture, traditions and language. These values have aided me in blending contemporary culture with this heritage of the 'Desert People.' This conscious blending of cultures is very much reflected in my musical compositions and playing style."
"After my military service, I visited Canyon De Chelly where my good fortune led me to meet my lovely wife Cara and settle in Chinle, AZ. Cara and her family taught me the ways and language of the Dine (Navajo) people."(Rock Point, AZ) - Videos produced by two Pittsburgh area churches led by Pastor Susan... more
Artist John Pugh specializes in trompe l’oeil, or trick of the eye, art. His technique tricks the viewer’s eye into seeing 3D scenes painted on flat surfaces.Artist John Pugh specializes in trompe l’oeil, or trick of the eye, art. His... more
I found this profile and thought it was interesting.
Throughout the early 1990's he played guitar and co-conceptualized the local pioneer Spanish punk bands-RECHAZO SOCIAL and LOPODRIDO. He had his first brush with visual arts doing the band's collage posters and distributing them all over the metropolitan area.Sometime in the 90's he lived nomadically for extended periods in NYC and Toronto.I found this profile and thought it was interesting.
Throughout the early 1990's he... more
This Current Gallery profiles the work of Chesapeake, Virginia Artist: David MacDowell http://www.macdowellstudio.comThis Current Gallery profiles the work of Chesapeake, Virginia Artist: David MacDowell... more
This Current Gallery profiles the work of San Francisco, California Artist: Ian Scalzo http://www.fabric8.com, http://www.ianscalzo.comThis Current Gallery profiles the work of San Francisco, California Artist: Ian Scalzo... more
I’ve not heard of him. (A cloistered life I've led) That is until this morning, when Google used one of his surrealist portraits as their logo to celebrate his birthday. This artist came upon Earth with little fanfare and left in the same manner. He did impact his being through his art and I am glad I stumbled or should I say Googled across the mark he left behind. http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com
Excerpted from his bio at: This Link
On August 15, 1967, Magritte died in Brussels. Unlike many of his Surrealist counterparts, Magritte lived quite humbly and inconspicuously. He did not draw much attention to himself, and he lived life relatively uneventfully. Despite his unassuming lifestyle, though, Magritte managed to leave an artistic legacy of transforming the ordinary into the fantastic. While some art historians attribute Magritte's art to his desire to oppose and combat the triviality of everyday life, others suggest that his work goes beyond escapism and serves to reveal some of the murkier and complex aspects of the human condition. Whatever the impetus was for his art, it is certain that Magritte's works are at once hauntingly beautiful and deeply provocative. Examples Here: http://www.thethinkingblue.com/art/magritte.htmlI’ve not heard of him. (A cloistered life I've led) That is until this morning, when... more
Amman the pearl of Middle East. Meeting with one of the greatest Egyptian artist. George Bahgory.Amman the pearl of Middle East. Meeting with one of the greatest Egyptian artist.... more
Any artist knows that their product becomes a separate entity, something outside of them. Of all of the artwork completed over the past 10 years this one came alive in a way that I can't explain. I wanted to share it with you!Any artist knows that their product becomes a separate entity, something outside of... more
Contemporary British artist Ian cook is painting a giant portrait of Lewis Hamilton using remote-controlled cars instead of brushes. The painting is the size of two double-decker buses.
Contemporary British artist Ian cook is painting a giant portrait of Lewis Hamilton... more
This detailed article is about Giorgio Morandi, the monkish and unworldly artist. Morandi was content to do as close to nothing as a painter can do. He sat at his easel, year after year, shifting his two tins and the one damn vase, and then painting the scene in his own special vision of muted brownness. Yet, his paintings are extraordinarily beautiful and moving. That's the shock of it all.
The article includes a number of pictures and a short-film based upon Morandi's paintings.This detailed article is about Giorgio Morandi, the monkish and unworldly artist.... more
This Current Gallery profiles the work of Vancouver, Canada Artist: Lani Maeglin Imre http://www.bocaseda.comThis Current Gallery profiles the work of Vancouver, Canada Artist: Lani Maeglin Imre... more
The American painter, Edward Hopper, is among the few artists who truly captured the soul of an era. HIs paintings --of lonely lighthouses, nude women staring into space from nearly empty rooms, brick store fronts the color of dried blood --capture, as few other artists have captured, both the spirit and the alienation of an age.
It could be a still-frame from an Alfred Hitchcock movie –a stately lighthouse towering above eye level. Were not the blues so beautiful and rich it would be bleak. A window lit interior would be reminiscent of Vermeer but for the missing tapestries. There are no virginals, no Sixteenth Century maps. Just a young woman staring blankly out the open window at nothing at all.
Hopper's most famous painting is Night Hawks of 1942 --a depiction of three people together, at night, but alone in a near empty diner in Greenwich Village in the wee, small hours of a morning. It's American "film noir" set against an imagined sound track, perhaps a sax.
A parody of this painting is almost as famous as the original. In it, the diner is peopled by Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Humphrey Bogart. If the street outside is not wet, it should be and will be, soon; if not tonight, some night! Hopper is relevant today in the same way as is Casablanca --also a product of the war year 1942. Both capture the frustration of people alone in an uncaring world. As Rick might have put it then or now, the problems of two people don't amount to a hill of beans in a crazy, mixed-up world, nor our world on the brink of WWIII, another great depression, a police state.
Hopper himself claimed no such intention. His purpose --he says --was merely to capture the play of light and shade. He wrote: "The picture is an attempt to paint sunlight as white, with almost or no yellow pigment in the white. Any psychologic [Sic] idea will have to be supplied by the viewer."
Hopper never intended to develop an “American” style but did so in spite of himself. His goal was more modest. 'All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.'"
He succeeded admirably. His "House by the Railroad" of 1925, is a study of sunlight on the side of a house, to be sure, and much more besides. For a younger generation, it was the Bates Motel. We are curious but not enough to want to go inside. Like his silent, lonely human observers, the façade stares back at you!
In 1951, Hopper returned to the open window theme. This time he left out the staring woman. We are left with an open window to an open, flat sea.
Stare at a Hopper long enough and you will find yourself in Hopper’s universe beside the young woman staring out the open window, among anonymous souls together but alone in a diner, beside like the stately lighthouse regarding a vast but empty ocean. It was Friedrich Nietzche who said that if you stare into the abyss long enough, it will stare back at you. Is that what it means to be alone? The American painter, Edward Hopper, is among the few artists who truly captured the... more
The American expatriate artist, John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925), was the most successful portrait painter of his era. He created 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings from locations worldwide including Venice, the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.
HIs most famous painting --Madame X --created a scandal at the Paris Salon of 1884. The subject was Madame Gautreax depicted with a spaghette strap falling off her shoulder. The otherwise worldly, sophisticated Parisian society was scandalized by the suggestive gesture. Sargent withdrew the painting and withdrew himself, eventually, to London where he painted another masterpiece --Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose now at the Tate Gallery and his portrait of Ellen Terry now in the National Portrait Gallery.
Earlier, in Boston, Sargent completed another masterpiece: the Daughters of Edward Darley Boit. HIs portrait of Mrs Sears hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. The American expatriate artist, John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14,... more
We all know the great Pablo Picasso for his iconic artworks, but who'd have though he was a wordsmith as well!
See link for samples of his poetry, some pretty much as cyptic as his paintings...We all know the great Pablo Picasso for his iconic artworks, but who'd have though he... more
