Article by Mallika Rao | The Huffington Post Hosoda Eishi (1756–1829) Contest of Passion in the Four Seasons (Shiki kyo-en zu), late 1790s–early 1800s; one of a set of four hanging scrolls; ink, colour and gold on silk, Michael Fornitz collection. It was a stroke of marketing genius on the part of the madams and pimps…
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when growing an ear on your arm is art
TIME Magazine | article by Arthur I. Miller | Zocalo Public Square @ThePublicSquare | February 3, 2015 Zocalo Public Square is a not-for-profit Ideas Exchange that blends live events and humanities journalism. Leonardo da Vinci made no distinction between art and science—and the two fields are converging again In 2007, the Australian performance artist Stelarc…
metaforms and metanudes etcetera
MetaForms and MetaNudes etcetera, available on iBooks, by author JD SAGE, was written as an art piece to document and address the use of transformations, numbers, symbols, and the element of time in art. This eBook III is an extension of the soft covered book MetaForms and MetaNudes etcetera. It contains two new chapters, Residuals and…
leonardo da vinci masterpiece :: geniuses second-guess themselves
{via The Huffington Post | By Jacqueline Howard | Posted: 10/02/2014} Leonardo da Vinci may have been a genius, but that doesn’t mean he never second-guessed himself. In a new book, optical engineer Pascal Cotte explains how a new imaging technology known as the layer amplification method (LAM) helped show that Leonardo painted two previous versions…
geometric shapes in snow :: snow art
Stunning geometric shapes appear in snow on frozen, isolated lakes {by Allyssia Alleyne, for CNN, January 6, 2015} CNN – If you frequent the pistes of the French Alps, you may see more than just skiers and snowmen scattered around the trails below. For the last 10 years, British artist Simon Beck has been decorating snow-covered…
the starry messenger
VAN GOGH | A Power Seething | by Julian Bell | Illustrated. 163 pp. New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $20. As a fledgling artist, Vincent van Gogh hired a carpenter to build a perspective frame: a wire-grid window. He used it to draw the Dutch countryside, his eyes darting between his pencil and the views through the frame….
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