Artist Hideout

Rindy Sam probably doesn’t stand a chance in court but I must confess a blank canvas looks pretty inviting to me as well.
Artist Cy Twombly’s work was on display in Avignon in southern France when Rindy Sam was overcome with emotion and decided to express herself on this white canvas.
Being that it’s absolutely white must be a form of abstract expressionism where the artist appeals to the incoherence caused by laziness of actually doing art or actually lifting a paintbrush.
Blank canvases belong on easels, not in galleries. 
Even as an abstract expressionist myself, there is a certain lack of expression …read more

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Dale Chihuly’s site has some really amazing glass sculptures, but recently, I have been quite intrigued by his Seaforms.
Take a look at some of these amazing works.

 
See more at www.chihuly.com

LiveJournal Tags: Chihuly , Glass , sculpture , art , artist

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I stumbled on this video earlier this morning and impressed with the sheer magnitude of the blocks being moved.  If creating huge installation work is something that you always wanted to try to do, this guy will show you how to do it.
Oh yeah, this is actual size stonehenge.

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Backwoods Fest 2007
Jay Risner, pictured here with two of his sculpted vultures, took some time to talk with me today about
his sculptures at the Backwoods Fest in Thornville, OH. 
Now craft shows/art markets are more than just a place to go to showcase your work, they also can serve as inspiration and help you innovate your own methods by checking out what other people are using that work for certain effects.
Even though we spoke only briefly, Jay was more than happy to talk about his work and share some great insights into the work he does.
Another …read more

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Over the last few days I’ve really gotten hooked on the Steampunk art that I’ve seen.
Ranging from Guitars to laptops to even vehicles this strange genre of art has quite a following.
It is best summed up in the following statement I found about it.

The ideas behind the steampunk sci-fi subgenre have been around since Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, but it was given its moniker in the late ’80s as a speculative-fiction genre, alongside cyberpunk, ribofunk and splatterpunk. While the others peer 15 minutes into the future, steampunk envisions a future that has collapsed onto a re-imagined Victorian …read more

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A big Thank you to Tammy, over at Jewelry and Beading who is hosting this month. Click on the little Sun Christmas ornament above to check out the posts submitted by the rest of the channel.

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Tatyana writes in her response to my post “Let Google Sell your art for you“

I have 2 questions regarding the subject:
1. How to really make Google SELL art for you? As advised in this post I listed a couple of works on Google Base but with no positive end result so far: the paintings have been on GBase for 3 weeks and they had only 6 impressions so far (the amount of time Google actually showed them). Do you have any advice how to at least increase the visibility?
2. What is so unique about www.artflock.com? What do they do better …read more

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Art and Design
There is a debate that has raged on about this subject for quite awhile. I am currently following one over here.
We must redefine the way we understand both design and art in our current world. The reason is that we are inundated with man-made art and design on levels unparalleled with previous cultures.
Here is my particular belief here, and feel free to comment because I know some people might be upset over this particular view.
Artists are designers.
Designers are artists.
Let me qualify that a little bit before I get flamed….

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“Waterloo Bridge, Temps Couvert” (“Waterloo Bridge, Overcast Weather”) was bought by an anonymous American bidder for $35.6 million including buyer’s premium during a sale at Christie’s auction house.
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Now this is probably a different art market than most of us will ever experience, but we can dream can’t we?
It does open the debate over what art is worth, even a Monet?

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