tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33339748405171099262024-03-20T02:54:06.963-07:00ART KREATORA blog about Art and Art NewsSimi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-56590907078382796262013-02-21T09:15:00.001-08:002013-02-21T09:15:12.684-08:0010 things about being an artist that art teachers don't tell youWhat art students need to know is: can I make a living from being creative? The answer is more complex than you might think
Be creative when it comes to job-seeking. Illustration: Emily Browne for the Guardian
There are many misconceptions about the art world. Ask someone
to describe what it means to be an artist, and they will probably paint a
picture of oneSimi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-6865009911554965462012-11-25T08:24:00.003-08:002012-11-25T08:24:54.386-08:00Urban art brushes back vandalism
Savvy businesses employ talented graffiti specialists to block untidy tagging
This building was painted with permission by several
graffiti artists during the Hopscotch Festival earlier this. Tags used
to cover the building, but not anymore.
AN ANGRY CARTOON SUN glares at
pedestrians walking past Nauss Bike Shop on Agricola Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-31219649982464043222012-11-25T08:20:00.003-08:002012-11-25T08:20:46.114-08:00Tattoos form missing ink between dying art and the art of dyeing
Time lines … Lauren Winzer and her handwritten tattoos. Photo: Tamara Dean
IS HANDWRITING set to ''vanish from our lives altogether?''
Are emails and texts robbing us of ''the most powerful sign of our
individuality?'' So asks Philip Hensher, author of the new book The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting.
But Lauren Winzer would beg to differ. A tattoo artist with
Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-49478586835936266822012-11-25T08:16:00.000-08:002012-11-25T08:16:05.940-08:00Art: Wealth of works, all by womenThe Alter collection - 500 pieces - debuts at the Academy of the Fine Arts.
"Sea Shells, Gold Fish and Rain" (1993), oil on canvas by Janet Fish. It mixes still life and landscape.
Linda
Lee Alter's collection of art by women, 25 years in the making, makes
its public debut at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under the
title "The Female Gaze."
At the entrance to the Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-49814830213062490852012-11-25T08:08:00.001-08:002012-11-25T08:08:03.608-08:00Keepsakes await at Berea's Velvet Box Art Glass Studio
One of the Jennifer Pitts' creations that has won several awards.
BEREA - The Velvet Box Art Glass Studio in Berea came by its name quite viably.
"I wanted to create jewelry that you don’t hang on a bathroom door,
but pieces that you keep to pass on to your children and grandchildren. I
want the purchaser to keep them in a velvet box."
Jennifer and John Pitts own the hidden gem that is Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-86374761610844216322012-11-25T08:00:00.001-08:002012-11-25T08:00:27.498-08:00Harper art heart of Todd Oldham book
This image is from designer Todd Oldham's new book, 'Charley Harper's Animal Kingdom' (Ammo Books, $100). / Provided
When the famed designer Todd Oldham published “Charley Harper: An
Illustrated Life” in 2007, he created an international interest that
continues to grow for the late Cincinnati nature-oriented
artist/illustrator. In fact, helped by that book’s success, Harper
artwork Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-2702939826148396712012-11-25T07:57:00.003-08:002012-11-25T07:57:22.944-08:00Review: Lee's 'Life of Pi' is inspiring 3-D art
This film image released by 20th Century Fox shows Suraj Sharma as
Pi Patel in a scene from "Life of Pi."
"Life of Pi" is one of those lyrical, internalized novels that should
have no business working on the screen. Quite possibly, it wouldn't
have worked if anyone but Ang Lee had adapted it.
The
filmmaker who turned martial arts into a poetic blockbuster for Western
audiences with "Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-34150594314451421592012-11-25T07:51:00.001-08:002012-11-25T07:51:08.666-08:00Smithsonian gathers best art of Civil War era
This
undated handout image provided by the Smithsonian American Art Museum
shows Frederic Edwin Church's 1861 oil on paper, "Our Banner in the
Sky," part of a major exhibition on how artists represented the Civil
War and how the war changed art. The piece is on view in Washington now
through April and then moves to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Paintings and Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-27625771897110749862012-11-19T13:04:00.002-08:002012-11-19T13:04:16.196-08:00Parrish Art Museum: Herzog & de Meuron's new gallery opensDesigned by Herzog & de Meuron, the new Parrish Art Museum is an appropriately
sleek and low-key addition to the Hamptons cultural landscape.
The exterior of the Herzog de Meuron-designed Parrish Art Museum
Although
New York state's Parrish Art Museum dates from 1898, it was given a
new lease of life this month with the opening of its new site in the small
village of Water Mill. Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-52919213687553459402012-11-19T12:53:00.003-08:002012-11-19T12:53:51.914-08:00The BSP’s New Art Collections The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has partnered with the
Metropolitan Museum of Manila in showcasing its latest collection of
newly acquired artworks.
Its latest exhibit, “Enduring Commitment: New Acquisitions
(2009-2012), the BSP Art Collection,” presents 38 of its new paintings
and works of sculpture.
“Representing established and emerging local artists, the exhibition
is an Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-83692735099662494942012-11-19T12:52:00.001-08:002012-11-19T12:52:16.388-08:00America's art cities
Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum is an artwork in itself.
Pay a visit to Washington DC's Smithsonian American Art Museum, and
you can gaze at the bright splendour of 'Cape Cod Morning', a
watercolour of light and hope crafted in 1950 by the iconic New York
painter Edward Hopper. In some ways, this happy vision where a woman
peers through her window at the arrival of aSimi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-36055314210548268072012-11-19T12:45:00.002-08:002012-11-19T12:45:41.954-08:00Art exhibition to foster unity in NE
GUWAHATI: To foster a spirit of brotherhood and integrity among artists
and people of the northeast, four artists have come together to
organize an art exhibition at the State Art Gallery here.
Artists R K Somorjit Singh, H Kependra Singh and Debendra Singh from Manipur and Siva Prasad Marar from Assam
have come together to display their works on canvas and wood at the
exhibition Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-62353806507790055982012-11-19T12:44:00.000-08:002012-11-19T12:44:02.932-08:00Art market news: exhibition for surrealist artist Catherine Yarrow attracts collectors
Half the works have already sold at an exhibition in London for the neglected
British surrealist artist, Catherine Yarrow, writes Colin Gleadell.
Long Eared Creature (1935) by surrealist artist Catherine Yarrow.
Charles Saatchi has chosen to open his twin Russian art exhibitions
(non-conformist art from the 1960s and 1970s, and 21st-century Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-28017349140001990322012-11-19T12:35:00.000-08:002012-11-19T12:35:02.004-08:00Art foundations offer monetary aid following Hurricane Sandy
A dumpster outside New
York's Dia Art Foundation is filled with flood-damaged items. Like many
arts organizations in the Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-50968942444999588952012-11-19T12:32:00.006-08:002012-11-19T12:32:54.432-08:00Art’s perfect theft: Flemish Renaissance masterpiece missing for 7 decades
GHENT, Belgium — The main suspect in the legendary art heist is said
to have whispered with his dying breath: “Only I know where the
‘Adoration’ is...”
More than seven decades later, the whereabouts of a panel
belonging to one of Western art’s defining works, the “Adoration of the
Mystic Lamb,” also known as the “Ghent Altarpiece,” remains a mystery.
If the stunning heist Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-65650246265540611842012-11-19T12:20:00.001-08:002012-11-19T12:33:37.463-08:00Art sales
Art sales: a billion dollar bonanza for post-war and contemporary art
A series of post-war and contemporary art auctions featuring work by Jackson
Pollock and Mark Rothko fetched over one billion dollars in New York last
week, writes Colin Gleadell.
Roy Lichtenstein’s 'Nude with Red Shirt’ fetched $28.1m.
History was made in New York last week when, against aSimi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-77203000598881844522012-11-11T12:23:00.001-08:002012-11-11T12:23:11.541-08:00How to Master the Art of Falling Apart "Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together." -- Marilyn Monroe
Over the course of my life, I've mastered the art of falling apart.
You see, there's this point at the deepest depths of our hurt and
sadness that's truly magical. It's the point at which we see things
clearer than we ever thought possible. It's where miracles happen --
after all, "a miracle is Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-80688678818530047682012-11-11T12:20:00.003-08:002012-11-11T12:20:33.521-08:00To promote a budding art form, called sand art
The Birla Academy of Art and Culture offered art lovers in Kolkata,
the rare opportunity of seeing the work of Odisha’s famous sand
sculptor, Sudarsan Pattnaik. The exhibition which opened on November 3,
offered an insight into the technique and the expertise that Pattnaik
has mastered in his creations.
Born in Puri on 15 April 1977, Pattnaik is often referred to as ‘the
inventor of sand Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-62965718096971999892012-11-11T12:03:00.004-08:002012-11-11T12:03:43.553-08:00Art exhibition: Philippe Shangti – Saint-Tropez to London
Grasping the knife between her cuffed
hands, her face turned away, she thrusts the blade into her victim. Deep
and hard, her weapon penetrates the flesh of the… gigantic pink dildo.
Yes, the gigantic pink dildo. Titled The End of Sex and costing
a mere £6,000, this is just one in a series of pornographic shots in
upcoming French photographer Philippe Shangti’s exhibition – Saint Tropez to Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-80320871302565064612012-11-11T11:57:00.000-08:002012-11-11T11:57:15.117-08:00Libyans discover video art after four-decade cultural vacuum
Picture released by the
Arete Foundation for Arts and Culture shows Libyan visitors looking at
an art installation
TRIPOLI — Libya's first video art exhibit proved a hit in Tripoli,
drawing scores of spectators in a country emerging from 42 culturally
barren years under the regime of slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi.
People
from all over the capital flocked to the seaside Old City this Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-6861361159752829882012-11-11T11:26:00.002-08:002012-11-11T11:26:16.001-08:00U.S. veterans preserve memories of war with their own art
In
this Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 photo, artist Marcus Eriksen, a Gulf War
veteran, works on a mold of his mentor, Capt. Charles Moore, a fellow
scientist, at his home studio in Los Angeles.
CHICAGO -- The Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-85993547223140292652012-11-11T11:22:00.000-08:002012-11-11T11:22:23.669-08:00Santa Barbara Museum of Art reflects on 'The Artful Recluse'
Purposeful solitude is taken on in distinct detail by the Santa
Barbara Museum of Art's 'The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and
Politics in 17th Century China.'
Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-58961484498463868082012-11-11T11:17:00.001-08:002012-11-11T11:17:25.639-08:00Art Alert: PhotoCairo 5 to be launched in multiple Cairo venues
Samir El Kordy, image from series Monument of Buzzwords (MOB) 2012, digital prints and text (Photo: Courtesy of CIC)
One of Cairo's most anticipated contemporary arts events is back for a
fifth year, with events at multiple different venues around Cairo.
Opening on Wednesday 14 November and running until 17 December,
'PhotoCairo 5: More out of curiosity than Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-60326857891994480702012-11-11T11:15:00.001-08:002012-11-11T11:15:36.048-08:00Poster art at the Barefoot Gallery
A retro wave overwhelms the Barefoot Gallery as posters of young
lasses dressed in 70’s attire shyly smile down upon you. This then is a
collection of posters from the island, before it lost Ceylon as its
name. From Air Ceylon boasting its sapphire service, to Hollywood
heart-throb of the past, Lex Barker holding a pose in ‘The Storm Over
Ceylon’ – this is a rare exhibitionSimi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333974840517109926.post-72738489557760015252012-11-11T11:02:00.002-08:002012-11-11T12:31:29.262-08:00Wearing art: New metaphors for Indian fashion
New Delhi: Temple art was the
trademark of traditional Indian clothes and accessories for centuries,
setting them apart from western apparel with a distinct colour, motif
and design scheme. But the arrival of contemporary art has given Indian
designers new metaphors for interpretations.
Art and fashion in India have spilled
into each other in strange yet harmonious ways. Indian Simi Tariqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457993432400563050noreply@blogger.com0