2,200 Radical Political Posters Digitized: A New Archive. I recently heard someone say his college-bound nephew asked him, "What's a union?
" Whether you love unions, loathe them, or remain indifferent, the fact that an ostensibly educated young person might have such a significant gap in their knowledge should cause concern. A historic labor conflict, after all, provided the occasion for Ronald Reagan to prove his bona fides to the new conservative movement that swept him into power. His crushing of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) in 1981 set the tone for the ensuing 30 years or so of economic policy, with the labor movement fighting an uphill battle all the way.
Prior to that defining event, unions held sway over politics local and national, and had consolidated power blocks in the American political landscape through decades of struggle against oppressive and dehumanizing working conditions. The Sketchbook Project Presents Online 17,000 Sketchbooks, Created by Artists from 135 Countries. Artist: Helen Sanderson If you love something give it away.
Smithsonian Digitizes & Lets You Download 40,000 Works of Asian and American Art. Art lovers who visit my hometown of Washington, DC have an almost embarrassing wealth of opportunities to view art collections classical, Baroque, Renaissance, modern, postmodern, and otherwise through the Smithsonian’s network of museums.
From the East and West Wings of the National Gallery, to the Hirshhorn, with its wondrous sculpture garden, to the American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery---I’ll admit, it can be a little overwhelming, and far too much to take in during a weekend jaunt, especially if you’ve got restless family in tow. (One can’t, after all, miss the Natural History or Air and Space Museums… or, you know… those monuments.) In all the bustle of a DC vacation, however, one collection tends to get overlooked, and it is one of my personal favorites—the Freer and Sackler Galleries, which house the Smithsonian’s unique collection of Asian art, including the James McNeill Whistler-decorated Peacock Room.
(See his “Harmony in Blue and Gold” above.) via Kottke. Two Excellent Resources for Free Art Books. 110 Drawings and Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien: Of Middle-Earth and Beyond. A few years ago, we featured J.R.R.
Tolkien’s personal cover designs for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, a series of novels that justifiably made his name as a world-builder in prose (and occasional verse), but rather overshadowed his output as an illustrator. He didn’t just do covers for his own books, either. You can get a sense of the breadth of Tolkien’s visual art at the Tolkien Gateway’s gallery of over 100 images by Tolkien, which reveal the landscapes, letters, interiors, and animals within the creator of Middle-Earth’s mind.
Many of these images come with descriptions of their provenance, which you can read if you click on their thumbnails in the gallery. At the top of the post, you’ll find Tolkien’s 1927 painting Glaurung Sets Forth to Seek Turin, first published in The Silmarillion Calendar 1978. Beyond perusing the images in the Tolkien Gateway, you’ll also want to have a look at Wayne G. Related Content: Discover J.R.R. Art History Books with full text online - The M... Rijksmuseum Digitizes & Makes Free Online 210,000 Works of Art, Masterpieces Included!
The colourful world of Sonia Delaunay. Artist Creates Incredible Watercolor Portraits Using Coffee. Tibetan Art In The 21st Century Explores Religion, Pop Culture And Technology. Download 422 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. You could pay $118 on Amazon for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s catalog The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry.
Or you could pay $0 to download it at MetPublications, the site offering “five decades of Met Museum publications on art history available to read, download, and/or search for free.” If that strikes you as an obvious choice, prepare to spend some serious time browsing MetPublications’ collection of free art books and catalogs. You may remember that we featured the site a few years ago, back when it offered 397 whole books free for the reading, including American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885–1915; Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomical Drawings from the Royal Library; and Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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If you know something else about him, it probably has to do with his politics: King Louis-Philippe granted him peerage in 1841, and he became a member of the French Parliament in 1848. This position gave him something of a pulpit from which to speak on his pet causes: abolition of the death penalty, freedom of the press, universal suffrage and education, and — lest anyone call the ambitions of his secondary career minor — the end of poverty. But this sensibility made Hugo no friend of Napoleon III, who took power in 1851, and so the writer went into political exile in Guernsey. That year marked the end of a period, beginning with his election to Parliament, during which Hugo put writing aside in order to devote himself fully to politics — well, almost fully. Via The Paris Review Related Content: This Artist Uses Banana Peels To Create Eye-Catching Art. Captivating Magical Paintings By Rob Gonsalves.
There are many types of artists in this world and each has their own particular style.
For Canadian Rob Gonsalves, his particular style is what is called ‘magic realism’. His earlier training as an architect showcases his interest in buildings and the world and this is transferred into his work. How to teach ... drawing and illustration. Drawing lessons might feel like a nightmare for some teachers, but with the 81st birthday of illustrator Raymond Briggs approaching later this month, it’s time to sharpen your skills – and pencils.
The Guardian Teacher Network has a collection of ideas and resources to boost teachers’ and students’ confidence with drawing and illustration. Quentin Blake is one of the best-loved illustrators of children’s fiction. This lesson by Access Art uses Blake’s work to inspire pupils to experiment with a variety of drawing techniques. There are three simple exercises for students to try: using continuous line drawing to create a picture without lifting their pen from the paper; building a picture from a series of separate, straight lines; using a watercolour wash.
Salvador Dalí’s Avant-Garde Christmas Cards. If ever you find yourself looking down on the Christmas card as a bland, mainstream art form, remember that John Waters makes them.
So did Andy Warhol. But we’ve told you about those two countercultural creators’ appreciation for the imagery of Christmas before. This holiday season, we submit for your approval a series of Christmas cards from the hand of none other than Salvador Dalí. They came our way via Spanish literature professor Rebecca M. Bender, who writes that the surrealist painter “designed 19 unique Christmas cards between 1958-1976 for the Barcelona-based company Hoechst Ibérica,” a chapter in a commercial career that also included “artwork for advertisements (Bryan’s Hosiery) and magazine covers during the mid-20th century.”
‘The Vatican Museums 3D’ Takes Technology-Enabled Tour to Rome. Posted by DONNA-MARIE COOPER O'BOYLE on Tuesday Dec 9th, 2014 at 10:15 AM Documentary Shows Moviegoers Sacred Art Like It Has Never Been Seen Before The Vatican Museums 3D, which is a 3-D “trip” inside the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel, will be in theaters around the country on Dec. 10 in partnership with Fathom Events; it will be shown in 2-D and RealD 3-D.
Additional shows will be in select theaters Dec. 11 and 14. The same cutting-edge 3-D cinematic techniques used by filmmakers in many of Hollywood’s most technologically advanced movies were employed by a team of 40 professionals to capture art treasures. Producer and director Cosetta Lagani took time from her busy schedule as the head of Sky 3D for the digital satellite TV network Sky Italia to speak with the Register about the making of the film. The Vatican Museums contain more than 500 years of history and are said to be one of the greatest treasures of humanity. 22 Creative Things People Did With Keyboard Keycaps.
Have you ever been in the situation when suddenly one of your keyboard keys stop working whilst you are typing? Sometimes it takes a little force to get that key working but most times it refuses to budge no matter how many times you continue to press it. Eventually some other keys follow suit and you are forced to replace the entire keyboard altogether. Winston Churchill's Paintings: Great Statesman, Surprisingly Good Artist. Winston Churchill is one of those colossal figures who readily qualifies for that unfashionable moniker of The Great Man of History. This was a guy who warned of Hitler’s threat long before it seemed polite to do so. Through his political acumen and brilliant oratory skills, the two-time prime minister rallied his demoralized country to face down the massive, seemingly unstoppable German army.
Beyond that, he won the 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature, for, among other works, his six volume series on the Second World War. And, on top of all that, Churchill was also a passionate painter. And unlike George W. For Churchill, painting was the best way to mentally step away from what had to be a titanically stressful job. 20 Artists Who Took Art To The Next Level. Where there is an idea, there is a way to express it – at least when it comes to art.
Artists can come in many forms disguised as your regular barista who can make amazing latte art, 2D and even 3D, digital artists who make stunning QR codes that jump out at you, or very patient people who make amazing origami strucures from paper or dollar bills. The Guggenheim Puts 109 Free Modern Art Books Online. Back in January, 2012, we mentioned that the Guggenheim (the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed modern art museum in NYC) had put 65 art catalogues on the web, all free of charge. We’re happy to report that, between then and now, the number of free texts has grown to 109. Published between 1937 and 1999, the art books/catalogues offer an intellectual and visual introduction to the work of Alexander Calder, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon, Gustav Klimt & Egon Schiele, Fernand Léger, and Kandinsky. Plus there are other texts (e.g., Masterpieces of Modern Art and Abstract Expressionists Imagists) that tackle meta movements and themes.
Anyone interested in the history of the Guggenheim will want to spend time with a collection called “The Syllabus.” It contains five books by Hilla Rebay, the museum’s first director and curator. Wonderfully Weird & Ingenious Medieval Books. Leiden University book historian Erik Kwakkel describes his tumblr site as follows: “I post images from medieval books.” Of Edges And Sharp Corners – 20 Cool Geometric Art Pieces. Geometric shapes are widely used in graphic design these days. You can find them on items like t-shirts to coasters. It’s one of the big trends that is hard to define, encompassing complex and large-scale patterns as well as simple shapes.
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