Creadores que dejan atrás el lamento y recurren al entusiasmo La crisis ha llevado a muchas empresas y creadores culturales al borde de la asfixia y se tiene la percepción de que se está ante el fin de un modelo. Si lo malo es que las tijeras del recorte están destruyendo ya tejido creativo, lo bueno es que la necesidad está activando la imaginación, la inventiva, el entusiasmo contagioso. Se puede protestar ante la creciente consideración de la cultura como industria del ocio en términos economicistas, sin dejar de mirar hacia delante y reinventarse. La Vanguardia presenta un pequeño muestrario -hay muchos más, en la edición, el cine, la música, la danza, el teatro o el arte- de quienes no se quedan de brazos cruzados. CINEMA URGENT: En busca de estímulos para inventar Ona Planas es una de las fundadoras y miembros más activos de Cinema Urgent. MICROTEATRO:Teatro inmediato, próximo a la gente En Madrid es un fenómeno que pronto se extenderá a Burgos, Segovia, Valencia, Murcia y a Miami. "Incentivamos lo inédito -dice Alcantud-. ¿Y el dinero?
Grow Your Own... Synthetic biology might change our understanding of design and nature, but it could also change the cultural and biological ecosystems we are part of. Synthetic biologists are engineering organisms, but they are also designing and agreeing the standards and the legal and commercial frameworks that underpin a new technology. Biology doesn't adhere to laws or country borders. Today, patented genetically modified organisms are already grown in many countries. Their tendency to spread or evolve has to be managed using laws and regulations. Science and society together have to decide whether we need different rules for synthetic biology: from what can be owned to what can be put into the environment, to what new laws might be needed to control biology and human interests in it. The artists and designers here use a wide range of approaches to open up questions about these interactions between science and society.
Public Art Concepts - Dan Sternof Beyer 2011 Download the PDF of these ideas : Public Art Concepts - Dan Sternof Beyer 2011 (2mb) [ New American Public Art ] Glass Sculptures Of Deadly Viruses and Bacteria By Like Jerram | Rederr January 10, 2014 Glass Sculptures Of Deadly Viruses Made By Luke Jerram Ebola Artwork By Luke Jerram - Website - Facebook - Twitter Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) is a viral haemorrhagic fever and one of the most virulent viral diseases known to humankind. One of the most complex glass artworks Jerram’s team have created to date, the sculpture was commissioned for Artis Royal Zoo, Amsterdam, Holland. Giardia Giardia is a parasite that can infect the intestines and cause ‘giardiasis’ which can lead to sudden-onset (acute) or persistent (chronic) diarrhoea. Created 20,000 x larger than the actual parasite, the artwork has been made for Artis Royal Zoo in Amsterdam. E. coli This is one of the largest and most fragile of Jerram’s sculptures. Ev71 – Hand Foot and Mouth Disease Enterovirus 71 (EV71), one of the major causative agents for hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). This virus is a member of the enterovirus species A. The artwork was commissioned by a scientific research centre in 2012. Amoeba
The 30 Most Expensive Paintings of All Time This is the collection of the highest known prices ever paid for painting. The earliest sale on the list (Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh) is from 1987, and more than trebled the previous record price, set only two years before, introducing a new era in top picture prices. The sale was also significant in that for the first time a “modern” painting (in this case from 1888) became the record holder, as opposed to the old master painting which had always previously held it. Since at that time sales of the most valuable painting have usually been made at the auctions, though that had by no means been the case before, and the list below still shows some “private sales”, including the three most expensive. The world’s most famous painting, especially old master works done before 1800, are generally owned by museums, which very rarely sell them, and as such, they are quite literally priceless. 30. Adjusted price: $63.1 Million | Original price: $47.5 Million 29. 28. 27. 26.
EMPTY KINGDOM TOP 100 Artists of 2011 Fractured Atlas 35 Inspiring Color Palettes from Master Painters | Art Varsity Putting together a great color palette for your design work can be one of the most challenging aspects of any project. And many times, color palettes are built from some source of inspiration. So why not be inspired by some of history’s greatest master artists? Colour Lovers has a lot of great tools including the ability to create color palettes auto-magically from pics you find around the web. Of course, computer algorithms are not perfect; they miss key accent colors frequently and make questionable decisions on extracting the dominant tones. Long story short … here are 35 color pallets extracted from the work of some amazing painters with relative ease thanks to the Colour Lovers tools: William Blake Ancient of Days William Adolphe Bouguereau Birth of Venus Nymphs and Satyr Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros Alexandre Cabanel Cleopatra Paul Cezanne The Basket of Apples La Montagne Saint Victoire Barnes Leonardo Da Vinci The Mona Lisa St. Vitruvian Man Edward Degas Ballet Rehearsal Paul Gauguin
Javier Aramburu Estrujenbank´s Biografía Comentada 1986- Patricia y Juan se instalan en Nueva York durante tres años. Al poco de llegar conocen a Dionisio Cañas. Dionisio les propone escribir un artículo sobre su obra y la tremenda discusión que provoca el texto los convierte en inseparables. En los meses siguientes se iría fraguando la idea de Estrujenbank (Juan y Patricia diseñan el logotipo de Estrujenbank), en los bancos de eskay rojo de un bar de la calle 14, Mac Carthy´s, convertido en su cuartel general, al son de la música irlandesa y caribeña. Patriciarealizó muchos apuntes y un cuadro grande sobre el Bar Mc Carthy`s que regaló a Dionisio. A este bar llevábamos a todos nuestros amigos que vivían o pasaban por Nueva York. Junio de 1987- Aparece Estrujenbank como editora de un libro publicado en Nueva York de dibujos de Patricia y Juan, Portraits, landscapes, and other things, que de alguna manera resume en dibujos los 10 meses de beca que disfrutaron. Abril de 1990- Publicación del nº 1 de la revista Estrujenbank en Madrid.