The Young Artist Who Inspired Picasso. Born in Algeria in 1931, Baya’s life was far from easy.
Orphaned at the age of five, she was raised by her grandmother. Unable to attend school, she worked as a servant for a French woman named Marguerite Camina, who would later be described by the artist as her adoptive mother. Dresses on washing lines pay tribute to Kosovo survivors of sexual violence. A conceptual artist is transforming a football pitch in Kosovo into a giant art installation, with thousands of dresses hung on washing lines in a powerful and poignant tribute to survivors of sexual violence.
The exhibition, Thinking of You, will go on show in the city stadium of Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, on Friday, the 16th anniversary of Nato forces entering the city after a three-month bombing campaign. An estimated 20,000 Albanian women – and some men – were raped by Serbian army, police and paramilitaries during the 1999 Kosovo war as Albanian separatists fought against the Yugoslav regime led by Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic. Alketa Xhafa-Mripa, a Kosovo-born artist and British national, said the idea for her installation came as she listened to interviews given by survivors of sexual violence who said their voices were rarely heard. Beautiful Watercolor Paintings of Architecture by Thomas W. Schaller. "Don't paint the scene in front of you.
Paint the light that defines it and gives it life. " Though he was raised on a farm in the Midwest, Thomas W. Schaller spent the majority of his life in Manhattan where he worked as a commercial architectural artist. Today, however, he works for himself, as a watercolor painter based in Los Angeles. Claerwen James: portraits of melancholy children - in pictures.
The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night" - Natalya St. Clair. Flower paintings. Title: Marilyn ,130 x 90 cm, oil on canvas.
Dark Themed Interiors: Using Grey Effectively For Interior Design. From Michelangelo to Caravaggio, why masterpieces are coming out of the woodwork. Michelangelo bronzes discovered. Two handsome, virile naked men riding triumphantly on ferocious panthers will on Monday be unveiled as, probably, the only surviving bronze sculptures by the Renaissance giant Michelangelo.
In art history terms, the attribution is sensational. Form Matters: Wearable Concrete Jewelry. Concrete is a pretty amazing material.
Form Matters explores the dual nature of concrete — of how it can be used to create architectural masterpieces meant to last hundreds of years to wearable, everyday accessories. It examines the overlapping nature of architecture, art, and fashion. Meet the women redefining street art. If there is a gender disparity in the art world, it is all the more acute in street art.
While some claim the physical danger of working outdoors makes women reluctant to participate, artists like Swoon, Vexta, ELLE and Maya Hayuk have battled through, undeterred by discrimination both on the street and in galleries. New York-based ELLE sums it up. Culture - Could anyone paint a Vermeer? A new documentary centres on an inventor and his claims that Vermeer relied more on tricks and technology than artistic talent to create his famous works.
Tom Brook reports. Inventor Tim Jenison is the focus of the new documentary Tim’s Vermeer. His mission: to prove that a Vermeer masterpiece could be created by an amateur like himself. In the film Tim Jenison uses technology to recreate the master’s painting The Music Lesson − it’s an experiment that could show that Vermeer relied on fancy tools rather than artistic genius. The Artist Who Draws All Her Daughter’s Outfits. Can there be copyright in one's own bottom? And what about a bottom pose? Yesterday this Kat discovered an intriguing piece of news which raises an issue of sure interest to, say the least, copyright aficionados: is there copyright in a bottom pose?
A few days ago The Guardian reported that, according to very serious "legal periodical" Closer magazine, "TV and social media personality" Kim Kardashian is unimpressed with bottom copycat by "internet bottom sensation" Jen Selter. Apparently the latter has been posting photos of her bottom on Instagram, posing as only Kim thought she was able to do. What a shame. According to the very humourous Guardian reporter, "one of the gangplanks of Kim Kardashian’s global celebrity [is] her nonpareil ability to take photographs of her own large buttocks with a cameraphone.
" So now “Kim thinks Jen copies all her poses … she is fuming as she feels her curvy bum is one of her most unique selling points and feels that Jen is just trying to cash in.” Can Kim claim copyright infringement over her poses? Infringement? The big-eyed children: the extraordinary story of an epic art fraud. There’s a sweet, small suburban house in the vineyards of Napa, northern California.
Inside, a family of devout Jehovah Witnesses bustles around, offering me a cheese plate. A Siamese cat weaves in and out of my legs. Everything is lovely. Top hats off to Marie Duval, a lost Victorian cartoonist sensation. The cartoonist Marie Duval is one of the forgotten wonders of 19th-century art. Her drawings have something in common with Honoré Daumier, but also look forward almost uncannily to modern comics in their fantastical surreal wit.
It’s exciting that a research project at the University of Chester aims to recover the lost fame of this Victorian woman artist and restore her to her rightful place in the story of modern culture. Duval (1850-1890) was born Isabelle Émilie de Tessier and worked as an actor as well as an artist. She married another British caricaturist Charles Ross, then began to make her mark – or rather didn’t, for it seems likely that Ross has been falsely credited with much of her brilliance. The old story. The big-eyed children: the extraordinary story of an epic art fraud. Selected MoMA Publications. Carry That Weight: The Revival of Feminist Performance Art. Mattress Performance: Carry That Weight began nearly five weeks ago. Throughout the performance the artist Emma Sulkowicz, a 22 year-old Columbia University senior, will carry a boxy blue mattress everywhere she goes on campus.
Weighing in at fifty pounds, the mattress stands in for the mattress on which she was raped by a fellow student. Sulkowicz’s work is profoundly simple: a young woman visually manifests the psychological weight of the crime committed on her body and demands recognition of that burden. Carry That Weight is a purely visual performance, one so piercing it resists language. Violence Is Mine. Paul Chan, The 7 Lights, 2005-07 (detail)louisemakesstuff/flickr Post-internet art reflects a certain undercurrent of violence without being didactic about its source. In a number of contemporary artists whose works deal with the digital — the so-called post-internet artists — a marked, almost frightening feature is their tendency towards violence.
The figure, which had been largely absent from contemporary art for the past few decades, has returned, but only to be pulled apart, dissected or made to disappear — not with any visible bloodshed or abjection, but clinically, echoing in style the unreality associated with the digital. Nsaikia : Amazing to have highlighted ... Nsaikia : I want to recreate this each ...
Walkin-vagina-installed-in-johannesburg-womens-prison-8792192. Visitors are invited to walk through the artwork, by 30-year-old artist Reshma Chhiba, in a reaction against the former symbol of oppression. As they do, the scarlet walls ring out with screams and laughter. The "yoni" - the Sanskrit word for vulva, or vagina - is skirted by acrylic wool imitation pubic hair over a tongue-like sponge walkway. Chhiba said: "It's a screaming vagina within a space that once contained women and stifled women. Pictures at an Exhibition. (Wrote this for my journal, and then Newslaundry asked if they could have it. Published in Newslaundry, 7th February, 2013) This is what it came down to, the Voice of Enraged India raised against the unspeakable filth of Westernised India: a small group of about 20-30 women, one man appointing himself as one of their leaders, clustered in front of the Delhi Art Gallery in Hauz Khas.
LS Lowry's rage against the machine. In 1916, LS Lowry had missed his train from Pendlebury, the Salford suburb where he lived, into Manchester. "It would be about four o'clock and perhaps there was some peculiar condition of the atmosphere or something. Know them, Daughters of Men – Guest post by Adrien. She that gazes at her being gazed on by him – Guest post by Adrien. An ‘unvalued person’: guest post by Adrien. #art. International Lonely Guy. Harland Miller’s Penguin Classics-Inspired Art. The temple raiders. Updated: Thu, Sep 13 2012. 01 42 PM IST.
Marina Warner · Once a Catholic…: Damien Hirst · LRB 5 July 2012. In 1991 the art critic Louisa Buck rang me up – she was my sister-in-law and in those days we didn’t text – and said I really should go along to Bond Street and see the butterflies hatching in some disused premises that the artist Damien Hirst had rented. Freedom and Art by Charles Rosen. The Art of the Heist: Valuing Art through Its Theft. Bonnie B.
In Mali, Finding Art as Real as Life Itself. Italian museum burns artworks in protest at cuts. 20 April 2012Last updated at 05:09 ET Museum director Antonio Manfredi set fire to the first painting on Tuesday A museum in Italy has started burning its artworks in protest at budget cuts which it says have left cultural institutions out of pocket. Antonio Manfredi, of the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples, set fire to the first painting on Tuesday. When Bad Is Good. Paul McCarthy and Damon McCarthy exemplify comic grossness in their multimedia piece Caribbean Pirates, 2005. “There is nothing worse than good taste,” thundered the English art critic Jonathan Jones in the Guardian in 2010.
TaxCut Money Collage. Break the silence over fakes. Freedom and Art by Charles Rosen.