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More Ant-Related Pictures. Honeypot ant. Honeypot ants, also called honey ants, are ants which have specialized workers ("repletes") that are gorged with food by workers to the point that their abdomens swell enormously, a condition called plerergate.

Honeypot ant

Other ants then extract nourishment from them. They function as living larders. Ant mandibles. Ant, Power Animal, Symbol of Team Work, Oneness and Patience. Ant, Power Animal, Symbol of Team Work, Oneness and Patience By Ina Woolcott When observing ants it is easy to see some of the special characteristics, or 'powers' they have.

Ant, Power Animal, Symbol of Team Work, Oneness and Patience

Ants are very industrious. There are ants that are solitary but most are part of a large community. Within the community there is a wide variety of activities and behaviours, with each ant knowing its place and fulfilling its duties with total loyalty to the whole. Dali ants symbolism. Cityscape Gallery - Architectural Paintings - Aladair Banks - Artist and Sculptor. Following the success of my 2007 and 2008 Edinburgh Festival Exhibitions, I have been working on a series of new paintings featuring Edinburgh's unique buildings.

Cityscape Gallery - Architectural Paintings - Aladair Banks - Artist and Sculptor

With their dramatic tonal contrasts and expressionist colour these pictures have been compared with those of the 20th century English artist John Piper. Claude Monet: Plein Air Painter and Impressionist. Claude Monet was born in 1840 in Paris.

Claude Monet: Plein Air Painter and Impressionist

He was especially influential in the Impressionist art movement, and is probably best known for his famous paintings of water lilies and Impressionist Parisian scenes. Monet first started drawing as a child, doing portraiture and caricatures for spending money. He also painted plein air landscapes as a teenager, before leaving to serve for two years in the military. When he returned to Paris Monet formed friendships with several other young painters. The Impressionist movement that grew out of those friendships soon became characterized by his (then) peculiar obsession with painting almost entirely outdoors. Genre Painting. John Piper. Life Begins at Sixty-Five. Folded Page Book Art... Today I finished a little project I have had in my head for a while.

Folded Page Book Art...

It took a lot of folding time, so I worked on it over several days. Using an old book to craft new art has always intrigued me. Film library. Nechvatal.net. Joseph Nechvatal. Digital art. Wade GuytonUntitled (2008) Epson UltraChrome inkjet prints on linen 84 x 587 inches still from Jeremy Blake's Winchester Redux, a 5 min. digital video with sound, continuous loop (2004) Maurizio Bolognini, Programmed Machines (Nice, France, 1992-97).

Digital art

An installation at the intersection of digital art and conceptual art (computers are programmed to generate flows of random images which nobody would see). Irrationnal Geometrics digital art installation 2008 by Pascal Dombis Joseph Nechvatalbirth Of the viractual 2001 computer-robotic assisted acrylic on canvas Digital art is an artistic work or practice that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative or presentation process.

Digital production techniques in visual media[edit] The techniques of digital art are used extensively by the mainstream media in advertisements, and by film-makers to produce visual effects. Computer-generated visual media[edit] Computer generated 3D still imagery[edit] Digital installation art[edit] Arts Events & What's on - Back to Basics: Recent Drawings by Richard McLean - artsHub.com.au. Back to Basics - Recent Drawings by Richard McLean, 2010-11. Csuri Project. Charles A.

Csuri Project

Csuri Charles A. Csuri is an artist and computer graphics pioneer and Professor Emeritus, at The Ohio State University. He exhibited his paintings in New York City from 1955–1965. His early work is in the collections of Walter P. Immersence. Lillian Schwartz. Lillian F.

Lillian Schwartz

Schwartz (born 1927) is a 20th-century American artist considered a pioneer of computer-mediated art and one of the first women artists notable for basing almost her entire oeuvre on computational media. Many of her ground-breaking projects were done in the 1960s and 1970s, well before the desktop computer revolution made computer hardware and software widely available to artists. Early life and artistic training[edit] Lillian Schwartz Show. Show opening at Merrill Lynch in conjunction with The Williams Gallery The first New Jersey exhibition based on major art discoveries by Lillian Schwartz Includes works created electronically that demonstrate the solutions to 500 year-old puzzles about the paintings of such masters as Leonardo da Vinci and Piero della Francesca.

Lillian Schwartz Show

In addition, Schwartz's "Beyond Picasso" series, and her most recent digital paintings titled " will be on display. When: Opening Reception: Sunday May 5, 1996, 4:00 - 6:00pm. RSVP Phone: (609) 921-1142 or Email: wmgallery@aol.com Hours: May 5 - June 7, 1996 Gallery hours daily: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. File:Puntos sobre las ies.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Manfred Stumpf. Manfred Stumpf (born November 25, 1957 in Alsfeld, Hesse) is a German draftsman, Conceptual artist, and Digital artist.

Manfred Stumpf

He started to study 1976 with Thomas Bayrle at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, since 1978 with Hans Haake at the Cooper Union in New York, and since 1979 with Bazon Brock at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. He currently resides in Romrod in the Vogelsbergkreis and Frankfurt, Germany. In 1995, Stumpf became professor for figure drawing and conceptual drawing in the faculty for Visual Communication and is leading interdisciplinary projects with Prof. Jason Salavon - Every Playboy Centerfold, The 1990s. Jason Salavon. Jason Salavon (born 1970) is an American contemporary artist. He is noted for his use of computer software of his own design to manipulate and reconfigure preexisting media and data to create new visual works of fine art. Life and art[edit] 100 Special Moments (Newlyweds), 2004. Digital C-print. 42" x 31.5". Ed. 7 + 2 APs.

Pascal Dombis, Google_Color. Google_RBYKW, 2008 Lenticular mounted on alu-dibon, 2 panels: 1.10 x 1.80 m each [ENG] For these works, a search engine (“Google”) is used to download ten thousand of internet images that match color name keyword like black, white, red, blue, pink … The images found under “red” keyword – for example – are not necessarily red, but they have been classified as red by the search engine. Internet search is employed as a creative process: the images are not selected. What interests Pascal Dombis are not the individual images, but the excessive accumulation of all them, and the different visual spaces they can create. Combined together, those images construct a kind of visual tautology that goes beyond the original internet search. Jason Salavon - American Varietal (US Population, by County,1790-2000)

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