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Assignment we did in class. prettyyyyy cool...

250 Random Photos of Awesomeness

3D Street Art.. Blows My Mind Everytime...

I know you've probably all seen it before, cus i'm pretty sure it all went circling the email world for a good solid two years or so at one point, but this 3D chalk drawings on the sidewalk and stuff always blow my mind and i happened to stumble upon this set of them that I hadn't seen before so I thought i'd share!

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"Mana Nalu" by John Pugh

“Mana Nalu,” translated as "Power of the Wave," was created by mural artist John Pugh with the help of 14 artists. It is located on the east side of the Lani Nalu Plaza building in Honolulu.

 "Waterfall" by Edgar Müller

According to Metanormph.com, this 885 square foot pavement artwork is Müller's first large sized project, which he created for the Prairie Arts Festival in West Point, Mississippi.

 “A Cave in London" by Edgar Müller

According to Müller's website, this painted cave illusion, which Edgar created for the West India Quay Festival in London during June 2009, is the first in a series called "The Cave Project." He created a second cave-related artwork in Germany for a competition and a third in Slovenia for a cultural festival.

Destroying Historical Murals? Yeah... You're Cool.

Read this article on Glasswire about how two murals in Texas Southern University’s historic Hannah Hall were destroyed by TSU president John Rudley because they were apparently "eyesores"? ummmm... Hello?

you dont just hire a painting crew to pore a nice healthy coat of white paint over murals painted more than thirty years ago...

Heres the murals. Check out the article. Terrible stuff for the art. 

ARTICLE

Art: 21- Spirituality

Watched another episode of Art:21 dealing with the theme of spirituality. Being an artist myself who like to deal with the concepts of religious matters and spiritual being, I found it particularly intriguing. One of the artists, Ann Hamilton really inspired me with her unique mouth pinhole images. Here's the artists!

Ann Hamilton

Hamilton creates installations, photographs, etc. that show her representation and connections she makes between the spirit, reading and writing, and textile creations. She also takes photographs using an open aperture and substituting her mouth for the aperture opening!

John Feodorov

Feodorov deals a lot with his personal past relationships with religion. He was raised with an indian heritage background but also as a Jehovah's Witness. His paintings and sculptures deal with the idea of comodifying spirituality. 

Shahzia Sikander

Sikander may not always deal with the topic of spirituality within her paintings but her process is what is spiritual 

for her. She thinks of her long 10-15 year painting process as a very meditative one,

James Turrell
Turrell deals with the use of light and shape in his art and how it relates to the spirit. 

Crap...?

I stumbled upon this and thought it was quite entertaining and laughable art. gotta love it....

"The exhibition was entitled PAUL MCCARTHY - AIR BORN - AIR BORNE - AIR PRESSURE and featured five new works of his monumental inflatable sculptures dispersed throughout the statue park."


Piggies, 2007 artwork by Paul McCarthy on display at the Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium.



Folkert approaching artwork by Paul McCarthy on display at the Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium. Shit Pile, 2007

Art: 21... IDENTITY

Watched an episode of Art: 21 today that had to do with the overall theme of identiy and self-exploration. Through each of the four artists, you could tell that the work they were creating was obviouslt emotionaly attached to them because of their personal identification within the world.

Bruce Nauman

"You have to kinda not watch anything, so you can be aware of everything."

I think a lot of his work is very personal in the fact that he uses his other passions and incorperates them into his studio and installation work. like his ranching and farming. Here's some of his work I find really interesting....

Kerry James Marshall

Marshall is an African America contemporary artist. his most recognized works are paintings (images below) that he likes to create by incorperating the structural format and ideas of classical paintings. he uses BLACK figures to symbolize what he calls an emblem of power. He wants to carry on older and lesser known subjects and artistic ideals so they dont just go away with the times...

Maya Lin

Her work is really interesting to me because a lot of it isnt the typical "peice of artowork." She likes to work with naturally occuring phenomenons. She creates interesting landscapes in very original ways. heres a few examples...

Louise Bourgeois

"I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands."

"All we have to open the past are the five senses... And memory."

Bourgeois creates very interesting sculptures, and in the episode of Art: 21 she talked alot about her hand scluptures. (one example shown below). Her sculptures show different ideals in her life like her feminist ideas. Check it out :)

Alphabet- Selective Color

Color Alphabet

Black & White Alphabet

Face Flips

Normal, Left sides of my Face, Right Sides of my Face...
Pretty weird.... Symetrical? NOT COMPLETELY.....

Colored Pencil Sculptures

Michigan-based artist Jennifer Maestre uses colored pencils to create creature-like sculptures. She originally began using nails apparently but the shapes didn't work the way she wants, so she discovered Loew-Cornell colored pencils. Take a look at all of them in the article. they are pretty amazing! She sold her first one in 1999 through Mobilia Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pretty awesome stuff. :)


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Article: Carolee Schneemann: Controversy Won't Bother

For feminist artist, controversy works

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Renowned artist Carolee Schneemann discussed her controversial works during her speech, "Mysteries of the Iconographies," presented in Linderman Library on Sept. 9.

It was definately a speech by Schneemann, showing her unique and artistic personality through music and twirling stickks in her hands. She spoke of her typical reasoning behind her controversial work.

Take a look at the article and some of her stuff. She feminizes the woman figure in such a unique way that most people might find slightly disturbing. but I think when you takke the time to look, the work is simply honest and beautiful.

Ansel Adams Photo Controversy Article

L.A. gallery tackles Ansel Adams photo controversy with show of known Adams works, mystery contenders

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An L.A. gallery is hosting some interesting controversial images side by side; Ansel Adams well-known photographs and look-alikes? were they shot by Adams or another unknown photographer? Read to find out! interesting stuff. the images are pretty creepy side by side...

Voyeurism & Invasion of Privacy Photography Exhibit: Article

Tate Modern in display of voyeurism for photography curator's debut

Article: Voyeurism Exhibit? Invasion of Privacy?

Some are arguing that the Tate Modern in London should not be displaying the 13 rooms of photographs and video footage by well-known figures including Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Miller, Guy Bourdin, Nan Goldin and Robert Mapplethorpe. The images display both straight forward and hidden messages and visions of voyeurism, death and extremem privacy invasions. But there is a freedom that allows this... Right?

Take a look. pretty cool and interesting stuff. I love the risks these people are taking. love it...

A young man called Amos Gexella looks back towards safety while perched on the sixth-floor balcony of a building in downtown Johannesburg, 4 August 1975. An estimated 2,000 onlookers yelled: 'Jump! Jump!' Two hours later, Amos rolled off the parapet and fell to his death

Couple Kissing, Girl Staring at Camera, Tortilla Factory, New York by Garry Winogrand (1969)

Photo Flea Market Fever: Article

Article: A flea market fever dream at the Griffin in Winchester

Recently, photographer Christopher Rauschenberg went on a seemingly simple trip to Marche aux Puces, or "market with fleas," at Saint-Ouen just "an inch or two outside" of Paris city limits. The most famous flea market is soon to become possibly more famous from the photographs Rauschenberg shot hanging in the Griffin at Winchester through November 7th.

Seems like a really amazing exhibit (if only I wasnt in America at the moment!) to view. I imagine the 2ft. by 3ft. photographs would be dream-like and such. Quite jealous of the simplicity and yet complexity in the photographs.