Pixel: A Mesmerizing Dance Performance Incorporating Interactive Digital Projection. Pixel is an innovative dance performance conceived by French performance artists Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne, known collectively as the Adrien M / Claire B Company. The hour-long performance incorporates a host of digital projection mapping techniques, 11 dancers, and bills itself as “a work on illusion combining energy and poetry, fiction and technical achievement, hip hop and circus.” Pixel premiered at Maison des Arts de Créteil on November 15th of last year, and above is a 3-minute exceprt of the shows most jaw-dropping moments. (via Jason Sondhi) Top 10 Tips: Award-winning artist Susanne du Toit.
18 April 2014Last updated at 19:46 ET By Alison Feeney-Hart BBC News Susanne du Toit likes to have 'a relationship with the person I am painting' Susanne du Toit won last year's BP Portrait Prize, one of the UK's most prestigious visual arts awards. The South African artist studied at the University of Pretoria and then at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, before moving to England in 1994. She works in a number of different mediums, but specialises in portraits which she paints in her studio in Berkshire. She describes her art as "an intensely individual experience" and says the meaning is personal, before it is public. Here are her top 10 tips for being an artist. For me it was important to study art.
It helps to bounce ideas off each other and to get feedback from other people who see things the same way as you do. It is so important to learn from others. You have to have a source of inspiration from people who are creative. Three of Susanne's portraits - Linky, Stephen and Pieter. 888,246 Ceramic Poppies Flow Like Blood from the Tower of London to Commemorate WWI. Historic Royal Palaces To commemorate the centennial of Britain’s involvement in the First World War, ceramic artist Paul Cummins and stage designer Tom Piper conceived of a staggering installation of ceramic poppies planted in the famous dry moat around the Tower of London.
Titled “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red,” the final work will consist of 888,246 red ceramic flowers—each representing a British or Colonial military fatality—that flow through grounds around the tower. Volunteers began placing the poppies several weeks ago and the process will continue through the summer until a final flower is symbolically planted on November 11th. You can read more about the project over on the Historic Royal Palaces website, and see the volunteers’ progress by following the #TowerPoppies hashtag on Twitter. Massimo Usai Historic Royal Palaces / Massimo Usai. Women in electroacoustic, minimalism, tape music, musique concrète, free improvisation, and related genres. Johanna Beyer I'm placing Beyer at the top slot intentionally, I cannot overstate her importance to the role of women in electronic, electroacoustic, minimalism, and related genres.
Often cited as the first female electronic musician (due to her work scoring "Music of the Spheres" in 1938), Johanna Beyer was one of the most forward thinking composers of the 30s. Starting out as a pianist, she received two degrees at Mannes College of Music in 1928. Several years later she started studying and working with the likes of modernists Ruth Crawford, Henry Cowell, Charles Seeger, Carl Ruggers, and Dane Rudhyar. Throughout her work, Beyer exemplified some of the earliest use of a pitch based approach to rhythmic processes, made use of technically challenging tone clusters, and made distinguished use of processed percussion ensembles in her compositions. Her work has been revisited and performed by both Aaron Copland and John Cage. Read, I, Pencil. I, Pencil My Family Tree as told to Leonard E.
Read I am a lead pencil—the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write.* Writing is both my vocation and my avocation; that's all I do. You may wonder why I should write a genealogy. Well, to begin with, my story is interesting. I, Pencil, simple though I appear to be, merit your wonder and awe, a claim I shall attempt to prove.
Simple? Pick me up and look me over. Innumerable Antecedents Just as you cannot trace your family tree back very far, so is it impossible for me to name and explain all my antecedents. My family tree begins with what in fact is a tree, a cedar of straight grain that grows in Northern California and Oregon. The logs are shipped to a mill in San Leandro, California. Consider the millwork in San Leandro. Don't overlook the ancestors present and distant who have a hand in transporting sixty carloads of slats across the nation. My cedar receives six coats of lacquer. No One Knows. Visual Composition. Visual Composition — Rule of Thirds. Sol LeWitt’s Advice to Eva Hesse: Don’t Worry About Cool, Make Your Own Uncool. Sol LeWitt, “Horizontal Brushstrokes (More or Less),” 2002. Gouache on paper, 22-3⁄8 x 22-3⁄8 inches (Photo courtesy Craig F. Starr Gallery. Art © 2011 The LeWitt Estate /Artists Rights Society, New York) “Metronomic Irregularity I” by Eva Hesse, 1966.
Because I’m surrounded by artists in both my professional and personal life, people often ask me what insights I’ve gained into the creative process. The unromantic truth is that being an artist in any field is hard work. Artist Eva Hesse in her studio Even for artists who make a living from their art, there is the constant tug-of-war between the need to make new work, which requires quiet and solitude, and the need to promote, sell, and manage the business side of being an artist. The challenges vary, but all working artists, regardless of their struggles and their financial or critical success, share one thing in common. Making space and time to create without interruption is difficult but essential. Eva Hesse, Untitled, 1969. Dear Eva, Famous People Painting with Wiki Links | Historical Figures With Image Map - ClipTank.com. Sticky Liquid Alchemy | paisleypedlar.
I do like to try out a new skill or art technique from time to time and have always fancied myself as a closet sculptor, but don’t have the ‘touch’ when it comes to more traditional sculpting materials like clay; so when a friend told me about Paverpol and how versatile it is my interest was immediately peeked. Paverpol is a textile hardener, and works by painting it onto any natural material – wool, cotton,, linen, silk, paper (mulberry/khadi etc)the painted fabric can then be moulded and once dry you have a solid permanent sculpture which is waterproof.
To find out more, I went with my daughter Lotty to make a figurine with Irma of Creations by Irma (www.creationsbyirma.co.uk ). We started out by making an armature from electrical wire which we then strengthened further with some lengths of copper soldering wire. This was then taped to a base and the after shaping the wire the basic framework was complete.
Does her bum look big in this… Busy sculpting, painting and draping Like this: Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius. National Gallery of Australia | LECTURE SERIES | 2009 by National Gallery of Australia. Banyule Arts Directory. Living and Learning Nillumbik - Home. Yarra Valley U3A. No Woman, No Cry - Google Art Project. Place Gallery. Anna White CV (PDF) Soft Edge/Hard Edge 4 June to 28 June 2008 How should one write about painting? Painting sufficient in itself not to require words. Painting that is about an entire world of the visual. A language of colour, forms and processes. Consistently, most evenings and several days of the week, Anna is working. The pleasure of looking at these paintings is in a re-experiencing of the process by which they were made, and the recovery or the allusiveness of this origin.
The works abound with ideas and images of the temporal. Contrasts between this silence and intensity are spatial as well as temporal. Anna White’s paintings are at once a record and an image of the intuitive. Leslie Eastman May 2008 Anna White 2005 Exhibition Anna White 2010 Exhibition. 2 Dimensional Life Of Her | Insite Arts. “Fleur Elise Noble’s 2 Dimensional Life of Her is a performative screen work par excellence… An essay on creativity, control, manipulation and ways of seeing, 2 Dimensional Life is witty, technically deft and engrossing, offering more dimensions than its bigger festival counterparts.” Keith Gallasch, Real Time Winner of the 2010 Greenroom Award for Video Design (Theatre — Alternative and Hybrid category), 2 Dimensional Life of Her is a visual performance made of drawing, animation, puppetry, projection and paper.
Set in an artist’s studio, a richly imagined parallel world is awoken where everything that was thought to be still or flat becomes something else. Her drawings reproduce themselves, drift between surfaces and move in and out of three dimensions. Illusionary, captivating and cheeky, 2 Dimensional Life of Her won Best in Show in the Under the Radar program at the Brisbane Festival 2008. Previous Performance Dates: ARTnews - Australia's Art Marketplace. ARTnews Australia: Art News in Australia is the best guide to exhibitons, art for sale and gallery official Web Sites. Locate the art dealer, art gallery and artist you are looking for in Australia and invest in thei. Incredible Woven Installation Made of 60,000 Coffee Stirrers. Most people don't think twice about their coffee stirrers once they've fulfilled their mixing duties, but artist Jonathan Brilliant has found another purpose for the common wooden sticks.
The Raleigh, North Carolina-based artist has constructed numerous spatial art installations over the years that incorporate the coffee stir sticks, perhaps the most eye-fetching of them being The Sumter Piece. The site-specific structure, installed in 2007 in Sumter, South Carolina, included 60,000 wooden stirring sticks expertly woven together. Brilliant produced a meticulously crafted sculptural piece that expanded across two floors. It reached over a second floor balcony and suspended from the ceiling of the first floor, artistically wrapping around an illuminated chandelier. The abstract creation took 14 days to weave together and install on site.
Jonathan Brilliant website via [My Darkened Eyes] Silk — Interactive generative art. Colossal | A blog about art and visual ingenuity. British Library collection. Basic Color Theory by Kandinsky. Color is of great value, harmonious color combinations can express all possible emotions and spiritual values.
Each color has its own expressive value, that is why a particular color can communicate emotions without showing real objects. Each color accent on an image should evoke associations of mystic or musical character. Kandinsky speaks about color spirituality based on color contrast. When you look on an image, you distinguish between warm and cool colors, light and dark tones. Warm colors help to create an impression of the movement towards the viewer, while cool colors – away form the viewer. Yellow is a typical earthy color, which cannot be too deep.
Blue is heavenly color. Green is the mixture of yellow and blue. Light red is a warm color, which expresses force, energy, decisiveness, joy and triumph. Middle red evokes the feeling of stability and passion. Dark red as any other cool color is a deep one and it can be made even deeper with light blue. Related Posts: More news: 39 Easy DIY Ways To Create Art For Your Walls. Back to Basics – Creation Made Simple | paisleypedlar. In a previous post I spoke of the problems I have been having with ‘Artists Block’ which has been preventing me from creating artwork that is fully realised and that I am happy with. As a last ditch attempt to overcome this debilitating condition, I enrolled myself on an online short course to go back to basics and build a sketchbook. We all know what a sketchbook is don’t we….. or do we? For some it is a book filled with beautifully executed drawings, a scrapbook of ideas and cuttings, for me it should be my brain on a page, but it hasn’t been for ages.
The course I chose is run by the textile artist Dionne Swift . Dionne runs everything very efficiently by email, the first one a couple of weeks before the start date to advise you of what materials will be required and then from the start date a further 7 emails drop into your inbox over the course of a week. Each email gives you a link and password to access instructions on Dionnes website for each section of the course. Like this: Art.sy - Discover fine art. Preserving physical records. This advice is for collection items such as: letters and certificatesnewspaper and magazine clippingsprints and postersdrawings, watercolours and paintings.
Paper-based materials can deteriorate chemically and physically. Some deteriorate because of their inherent properties, others as a result of poor storage or display conditions. Damage can be caused by poor handling practices. The media on paper-based objects, such as ink, watercolour or pencil can also degrade. While we cannot stop deterioration, we can influence the rate at which it happens. Deterioration Chemical deterioration includes: Fading and discolouration of papers and the media on the paper caused by exposure to light or ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Correct handling of flat paper items will aid their long-term preservation. Always handle with care.Never allow food or drink near itemsHave clean hands, even when wearing protective cotton or powder-free surgical gloves.
Preservation and storage Environment Shelving Packaging. JR's TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out.