As defined in the previous blog, the muse is a person who is the source of creative inspiration for artists. Artists are attracted to some special quality that they alone may notice. In both the female artist and male artist, these traits often spark creativity, imagination, inspiration and often leads to obsession. In Greek mythology…
Category: Sculpture
Making of ‘Homage to Women’ a Two Dimensional Sculpture
The thought process and construction process leading to artworks are often unstated or understated. The understanding of the purpose and meaning of an art piece is often left up to the art critic or a curator. To avoid a misunderstanding and misinterpretation of the art piece, #1-94 Homage to Women referenced in this blog, the…
blood on the canvas: the greatest feuds in art history
In his exhibition You Were Shit in the 80s, artist Mackie imagines fictional feuds between great artists. He didn’t need to. Real art history is riddled with rivalries – from Leonardo’s attempted castration of Michelangelo’s David, to Picasso and Matisse’s love wars article by Jonathan Jones | via The Guardian | 12 March 2015 {featured image: Van Gogh…
the Ajanta Caves: discovering lost treasure
The Ajanta Caves were a sanctuary for Buddhist monks that was forgotten, along with its stunning riches, for nearly 1,500 years. Jonathan Glancey investigates. The Ajanta Caves, 30 spellbinding Buddhist prayer halls and monasteries carved, as if by sorcery, into a horseshoe-shaped rock face in a mountainous region of India’s Maharashtra state, 450km (280 miles)…
Long-lost sculpture resurfaces in Gauguin show
Article by Martin Bailey | via The Art Newspaper | Exhibitions, Issue 265, February 2015 | Published on: 06 February 2015 Work reportedly sold for $300m is also included The ambitious Paul Gauguin retrospective, which opens at the Fondation Beyeler on Sunday (until 28 June), will include an exciting rediscovery. Thérèse, 1902, a carved figure of a stylised…
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…
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