The Longest Night. Stephanie Kilgast - Contemporary Sculptures & Art. The Art Institute of Chicago.
Marginali-yeah: Take 2! The Incomparable Luttrell Psalter - Medieval manuscripts blog. It is almost impossible to discuss the fabulous and incomparable Luttrell Psalter (Add MS 42130) without resorting to hyperbole.
Produced in Lincolnshire, England c. 1320-1340, for Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, its namesake and patron (please see our earlier blog post for more details), the manuscript is a glorious explosion of visual delights. Besides the illuminated and historiated initials, the Psalter contains hundreds of marginal and bas-de-page images which display a staggering and creative diversity. A very few (compared with the overwhelming numbers in the manuscript!) Selected details are below; please have a look at the fully digitised manuscript here for much much more. A lady with a pet squirrel, Add MS 42130, f. 33r A monkey riding a goat whilst hawking (except with an owl, so not hawking), Add MS 42130, f. 38r. D&AD Pantone: Project Monsoon on SAIC Portfolios. InsightSeoul, South Korea, is a vibrant and colorful city.
But, during the annual 3 week monsoon season, Seoul's energy and color disappear under the dark cloud and people staying indoors. With the help from Pantone we wanted to change that. IdeaTo bring back the color. We painted the streets of Seoul with hydrochromic paint - a special formula which changes from transparent to opaque when it gets wet.Inspired by South Korea’s culture of emphasizing the importance of the flow of rivers, the paintings utilize Korea’s topographical features that create a flow and puddle of rain water in every street to fill the streets with color and life. Digital: BillboardAugmented reality billboards, interactively displaying a glimpse of the project, are set up around the streets before the monsoon season to tease the project and also to give people something to look forward to in this year’s monsoon season.
A Brief Compendium of Art Nouveau Treasures. A Space of Their Own, a New Online Database, Will Feature Works by 600+ Overlooked Female Artists from the 15th-19th Centuries. Many of the works we found—well, nobody knew they were there.
Nobody knew anything about the artists. … They weren’t important, but rather beholden to their fathers, mothers, and husbands. They had no voice. . - Jane Fortune, Founder of Advancing Women Artists (AWA) The paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures the late Jane Fortune refers to above were discovered in museum storage spaces throughout Florence. Many of their female creators were acclaimed during their lifetimes. Saint Catherine with Lily by Plautilla Nelli That may change as early as the fall of 2019, when A Space of Their Own, an illustrated online database of over 600 female artists working in the US and Europe between the 15th and 19th centuries, launches. In preparation for their reintroduction, many of the works appearing on A Space of Their Own have undergone extensive restoration, courtesy of Jane Fortune's nonprofit Advancing Women Artists.
David and Bathsheba by Artemisia Gentileschi via Hyperallergic Related Content: The Undersung Art of Native American Women, Front and Center. MINNEAPOLIS — Upon first arrival to Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, the feature exhibition at Minneapolis Institute of Art, visitors are greeted by a 1985 Chevy El Camino parked in the center of the gallery.
“Maria” (2014), was conceptualized by Rose B. Simpson, alongside the exhibition advisory board. Simpson describes “Maria” as an “empowered vessel,” similar to a pot or basket, with its rounded corners and “black on black” interior and exterior. 160,000 pages of medieval manuscripts digitized - Medievalists.net. By Amy White Scholars and aficionados can now search, download and study 160,000 pages of high-resolution, full-color manuscripts dating to the ninth century, thanks to library partnerships.
From tattoos to video games to Game of Thrones, medieval iconography has long inspired fascination, imitation and veneration. Now, thousands of original medieval manuscript and early modern images are available for free online, for scholars and aficionados to search, download and study. Led by Lehigh University, a partnership of 15 Philadelphia-area libraries has scanned and digitized more than 160,000 pages from 475 original manuscripts, the earliest dating to the ninth century. The hand-lettered and illustrated pages range from brightly hued, gold-leafed illuminated works of art to functional texts intended for students of science, philosophy and religion.
Viewers can download material by page, manuscript or collection. Check out these websites: PACSCL website: OPENN curated collections: Studio Ayaskan. GROWTH, with its origami-based geometry, transforms and grows with the plant, as the plant itself unfolds over time.The life cycle of a plant is a transformation, from an early seed to its full grown size; the blooming of a flower, the unfolding of a leaf, the branching of the roots.
This process is what GROWTH aims to capture within a plant pot. There is a strong disconnect between nature and the environments we are used to and comfortable in as humans. The spaces and objects we build and surround us with are very static.