Posts Tagged ‘art’
In Photos: The Nuart festival of street and urban art, Stavanger, Norway
THE Nuart festival of street and urban art, Stavanger, Norway. Photos for 2012:
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Posted: 6th, October 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Rain Room: Random International recreates a wet car park at the Barbican
BUT is it rain? Visitors explore Rain Room by artists Random International, a 100 square metre field of falling water which parts as visitors walk underneath, at the Barbican, in central London. You might have a similar effect in your urban high rise, a puddle, perhaps, in the ground floor car park where water has leaked thought the cracks in the cement…
Posted: 5th, October 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
David A. Reeves is making the silhouette hip (photos)
DAVID A. Reeves is making the silhouette hip:
Spotter: geekologie
Posted: 1st, October 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
In praise of Duane Bryers’s Hilda
IN June 2012, Duane Bryers died. He was 100. He had success as an artist with the syndicated comic strip Cokey. But it was Hilda, his full-figured glamour calendar girl who made him famous. When he was 91, he spoke with Les Toil:
Les: How’s your art going now, Duane?
DB: How’s my heart going? My heart is going surprisingly fine.
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Posted: 10th, September 2012 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
Finger panting with Ray Massey
ARTIST Ray Massey is finger painting:
Spotter: likecool
Posted: 4th, September 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Cecilia Gimenez’s Elías García Martínez’s Ecce Homo is a hit with toursits
CECILIA Gimenez’s updating of Elías García Martínez’s Ecce Homo (aka Ecce Mono) has turned the fresco into a big hit with tourists. The Spanish town of Borja is now famous:
On Saturday, hundreds of curious visitors queued up outside the Iglesia del Santuario de Misericordia church, where the image is painted on a column.
“The previous painting was also very pretty, but I really like this one,” a woman who had travelled to the town said on public television.
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Posted: 29th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The Sleeping Beauty artwork seeks real life princes and princesses
THE Sleeping Beauty installation at the National Art Museum of Ukraine features sleeping women. Men are invited to kiss them once on the lips. If the woman opens her eyes, man and woman are contractually obliged to marry.
This is, of course, how Prince Edward finally got a mate.
Ukrainian-Canadian artist Taras Polataiko explains:
“Everybody, any viewer, will have to sign the contract, which says if – this is very important, because nobody has to – ‘if I kiss the beauty and she opens her eyes while being kissed, I marry her’….It’s a really serious thing, it’s marriage.”
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Posted: 25th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Water Wigs: water ballons hit bald men in the head and give wonderful hair
WATER Wigs are the work of photographer Tim Tadder. Tadder and his team aimed “to capture the explosion of water at various intervals” by tossing water balloons at the heads of bald men. Drip-dry Water Wigs are here to help:
We used a laser and sound trigger to capture the right moments for each subject to create just the head of hair that fit best with the face. We chose to work with triads of colors to create images that are arresting and amusing at the same time. We feel the color helps transform the water into some more and adds greater visual interest.
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Posted: 24th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Something happend to Elías García Martínez’s Ecce Homo
WHEN the Centro de Estudios Borjanos in Borja, Spain, received a donation from the granddaughter of 19th-century painter Elías García Martínez something happened. Martínez was known for having painted the Ecce Homo, a fresco on the walls of the church of Santuario de Misericordia. It was a fine work. Then a local woman – perhaps buoyed by the donation – took it upon herself to renovate the fresco. These three pictures together show what happened to the painting:
Picture on left: the original work.
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Posted: 22nd, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comments (2)
In photos: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin
HOW does Germany mark the Holocaust? A memorial is one way. The memorial to the 6 million Jews killed in Europe under the Nazis was created by U.S. architect Peter Eisenman and consists of an undulating field of 2,711 blocks through which visitors can wander. Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe was opened to the public in 2005:
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Posted: 13th, August 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (16)
Famous fictional families immortalised in pencil
YOU have to be vain, stupid or supremely confident in your own skin to sit for a caricature. Or drunk on holiday vino and sunshine. Why else would anyone sit in the town square and allow a stranger to draw them? For the famous, it’s different. The artist uses their faces to showcase his skills. Artist’s like Kirk Demarais, who has drawn a gallary of pencil portraits based on some of the silver screen and magic box’s best families.
Buy them at Gallery 1988 and pass them off as your own family.
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Posted: 24th, July 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Brock Davis has fun with broccoli (photos)
BROCK Davis has been playing with his food. The Cauliflower Nagasaki is poignant:
Spotter: Make Something Cool Every Day, via Bored Panda
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Posted: 6th, June 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Bart Jansen turns his cat Orville into a helicopter (video)
ORVILLE’S best friend used to be Keith Harris. Then Dutch artist Bart Jansen got his very own Orville, a cat. Sadly, Orville died.
Should Jansen have Orville stuffed and turned into a puppet? Or should be turn Orville into a dance act?
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Posted: 6th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
On Die-Guillotine.com you vote for a lamb to live or die
IMAN Rezai and Rouven Materne will use their homemade guillotine to off a lamb. The duo, student at the Berlin University of the Arts, are, we imagine on budget, so have stopped short of getting a live shark, an elephant, a million quid or John Terry. So, They will kill a lamb in spectacular fashion. But only if you want them to. On Die-Guillotine.com, you can decide if the lamb dies a memorable death or returns to a farm and dies quietly.
Says Materne:
“There were people who wanted to forbid us to do this. There were people who celebrated the idea from day one. And there were some people who were afraid of us.”
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Posted: 26th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
He’s the artist who paints with his tongue – video
HE paints with his tongue. He’s the artist who saves a fortune on brushes by sticking paint on his tongue and licking the canvas. His works ‘Last Night’s Supper’, “Elevenses’ and ‘Technicolour Yawn’ are hung in the smallest room…
Posted: 8th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
People as Pixels – Marilyn Monroe to Audrey Hepburn in people paint
PEOPLE as Pixels is a body of work by Craig Alan. He uses people to create images of Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, John F. Kennedy and the Statue of Liberty.
Posted: 2nd, March 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Shadow sculptures made of rubbish are brilliant (photos)
SCULPTURES made from rubbish produce great shadows. Tim Noble and Sue Webster have gone to work and created these fine monuments to rubbish:
“The art of projection is emblematic of transformative art. The process of transformation, from discarded waste, scrap metal or even taxidermy creatures to a recognizable image, echoes the idea of ‘perceptual psychology’ a form of evaluation used for psychological patients. Noble and Webster are familiar with this process and how people evaluate abstract forms. Throughout their careers they have played with the idea of how humans perceive abstract images and define them with meaning. The result is surprising and powerful as it redefines how abstract forms can transform into figurative ones.”
Posted: 19th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
When Is Nazi Art Theft Not Nazi or Neo Nazi? When It Was The Anti-Semitic Vichy French
A MASTERPIECE described as stolen in World War ll has been snatched back by US agents.
The Wall Street Journal last night headlined the story as:
The headline is classic of how a good – to better than average – news story can lead a city-editor or sub-editor up the garden path.
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Posted: 5th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
The Sentient Kitchen: Body Parts Are Anatomical Kitchenware
CHRISTINE Chin’s Sentient Kitchen turns everyday objects into pieces of your pre-depilated body. The nose is, of course, Victoria Beckham’s…
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Posted: 25th, October 2011 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Artist Christian Jankowski’s Aquariva Boat Costs £110,000 More With His Signature
MORE news on how the art world works: at London’s Frieze Art Fair you can buy the Aquariva Centro, a 30ft boat for $430,000. Nice. But if you buy it as work of art – not as a boat – it costs £540,000.
For the extra you get: a promotional video featuring designer Christian Jankowski, Jankoweski’s name on a certificate and Jankowski’s name on a chrome plaque on the boat’s hull.
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Posted: 11th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
Marni Kotak Says Her Live Gallery Birth Is Art
IS the art world nuts? Artist Marni Kotak will give birth at Bushwick’s Microscope Gallery before an audience. Her work is part of a greater piece examining childbirth.
Other parts are said to include My Placenta And Me, Umbilical In Tope, Useless Husband and Screams Of Pain With Flashing Lights.
Says the artist of The Birth of Baby X:
“I hope that people will see that human life itself is the most profound work of art, and that therefore giving birth, the greatest expression of life, is the highest form of art.”
Posted: 10th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Anyone Seen A Helium Filled Is Land Last Seen Floating Over Cambridgeshire?
HAS anyone spotted the £9,000 helium-filled sculpture of a desert island floating in the summer breeze somewhere between Cambridgeshire and the Czech Republic?Posted: 5th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Face Of The Day: Harrogate’s Cralling Bunny Girl
FACE of The Day: In Harrogate a massive bronze sculpture called Cralling has taken up residence on the President’s Lawn at the Yorkshire Showground ahead of the Great Yorkshire Show which beings next week.
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Posted: 7th, July 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Giant Knitted Bobble Hat Stolen From Leeds City Centre (Video)
HAVE you seen the giant knitted bobble hat stolen from a junction box in Leeds city centre? Are you one of the two people who made off wearing hat that was installed as part of an arts project by Situation Leeds, a public art scheme by Leeds Met Gallery & Studio Theatre, called Junction.
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Posted: 4th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
