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 here that questions the form.

In the article mentioned above, the work is described as

" a pristine white canvas"

How the heck is that worth the $2 million that Ms. Rindy Sam is being sued.

I’ll buy you another canvas.  Or better yet. 

I think someone should sue Cy Twombly for copyright infringement.  I’d love to see that go to trial.

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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

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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 Artist who I really enjoyed his work, was more into selling his work than actually talking about it at all. 

But I did like his fountains enough to show a blurred image here ->

Basically they were found item assemblages that were worked into fountains.  He only sells at festivals, provides no information about how to contact him, but advertises lifetime guarantee on his fountains. 

How do you contact the guy to say "Hey, my fountain broke?"

I personally almost bought one of these pet rocks just to say I have one, but it’s amazing how the concept has flourished in craft shows.

So, maybe that will be a future project.

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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 past. Steam and clockworks replace silicon logic, brass and copper stand in for titanium and plastic, and airships replace spaceships.

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So now I am on the lookout for anything old that I could turn into my next project…. Steampunk Style

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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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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 than anyone else? I looked at their site briefly and they seem to offer pretty basic stuff: static display of art works with some information attached. There are sites that offer artists & visitors much more: for example, www.capucinesboulevard.com gives and opportunity to download artist’s videos, audio files (artists’ interviews, their favourite music, etc.). And the membership is absolutely free.

To answer the first question, I’d say a great start would be to get it listed somewhere, linking it over to your Google base page. A high traffic site would be better of course. But it’s surprising how many people are even selling through a blogger blog. Google Base can take care of the actual transaction for you is all and do it at minimal cost. I did run ads with Google Adwords on my listings there and saw a few more page hits, but no real motivated buyers.

For number 2, Artflock is one of the better selling sites I reviewed. I had a bit of a chance to preview it before it had so many artists. Ed who runs Artflock is a great guy and if you have a great idea to make it better will usually implement it pretty soon after you let him know about it. This kind of response is actually pretty rare with art communities.

As for www.CapucinesBoulevard.com, I hadn’t heard anything about it yet. I’ll have to check into it.

Right now, I am trying to sell through ebay. I think it fits for me right now, as my listing gets some decent traffic and if it sells, sells within 7 days of listing it. If it doesn’t sell, I can relist at half price or take it elsewhere.

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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….

Design natively deals with use and purpose to the thing being created with a regard to aesthetics. (ie. Would you consider a fine goblet to be good design or beautiful art?)

Art is primarily aesthetically inclined with a nod toward the direction of use and purpose. (ie. How about a commissioned painting that is painted for a particular room in a house on a specifically colored wall to achieve a greater feeling of warmth in the room?)

I maintain that no good designer will ever be able to be successful in design on the aesthetic level without some level of art and likewise no artist will ever be great until they can also incorporate great design and purpose into their work.

An Artist can practice good design, but that does not make them a designer.

Likewise a designer can practice great artistic ability, but that doesn’t make them an artist.

It has to do with motive and purpose.

Why is a thing created and does it achieve the purpose assigned?

If I create a painting for the purpose of being an aestheticly pleasing door stopper, is it design? Certainly, but good design? Probably not. Is it artistic? yes, but it fails there too because it’s behind the door where no one looks.

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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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