Some cool visual art images:
J. F. Bautista, Brooklyn Art Project HQ / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / 20090926.10D.54672.P1.L2.SQ.BW / SML
Image by See-ming Lee ??? SML
J. F. Bautista seen at the Brooklyn Art Project HQ with his paintings in the background during the annual Dumbo Art Festival in 2009.
13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html
The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation’s largest urban forum for experimental art.
Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists’ studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.
The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.
www.dumboartscenter.org
www.dumboartfestival.org
www.video_dumbo.org
Related SML
+ SML Fine Art (Flickr Group)
+ SML Flickr Collections: Events
+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
+ SML Flickr Tags: Art
+ SML Pro Blog: Art
James Cospito’s Moleskine Stash, Brooklyn Art Project HQ / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / 20090926.10D.54637.P1.L2.C23 / SML
Image by See-ming Lee ??? SML
James Cospito’s (Flickr) Moleskine stash, seen at the Brooklyn Art Project HQ (Flickr Group) during the Dumbo Art Festival 2009.
See also James Cospito talks about his NYC Subway series (Flickr HD video)
13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html
The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation’s largest urban forum for experimental art.
Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists’ studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.
The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.
www.dumboartscenter.org
www.dumboartfestival.org
www.video_dumbo.org
Related SML
+ SML Fine Art (Flickr Group)
+ SML Flickr Collections: Events
+ SML Flickr Sets: Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009
+ SML Flickr Tags: Art
+ SML Pro Blog: Art
Zulu Love Letter / South Africa 2002
Image by dietmut
Zulu Love Letters ( iNewadi)
“Love letters” are messages woven in beads by Zulu maidens to be given to their lovers as symbols of love and affection
Zoeloekralenwerk
De KwaZulu / Natal provincie van Zuid-Afrika is internationaal bekend om zijn kleurrijke Zoeloekralenwerk. Traditionele kleurencombinaties en patronen kunnen nog steeds worden gevonden, maar de moderne Zoeloekralenwerk evolueert naar meer hedendaagse stijlen. Meer dan alleen maar decoratief vlechtwerk van ingewikkelde patronen kralen, heeft de kralen vaak gebruikt als een middel om de communicatie tussen mannen en vrouwen, boodschappen over te brengen van zowel de hofmakerij en waarschuwingen.
De beeldende kunst van deze vrouwelijke ambacht betreft direct in een of andere manier tot het aantrekken van een partner en het huwelijk. De mannetjes zijn de traditionele klanten en kopers en ontvangers van deze beadworks, en ze dragen ze om de betrokkenheid met vrouwen en wie ze de hof maken.
De meetkundige figuren en gekleurde symbolen die bepaalde waarden portretteren. De drie manieren om een ontwerp te bepalen zijn door de combinatie en het samenstellen van kleuren, het gebruik en de aard van een object, en het opzettelijke breken van regels. Het Zulu kralenwerk dient zowel als een sociale functie en heeft ook politieke betekenis, met trots het weergeven van bepaalde regionale kleuren.
Wil je meer weten over de Zoeloes klik hier:
www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Zulu
www.marques.co.za/clients/zulu/bead.htm
Zulu beadwork
The KwaZulu/Natal province of South Africa is internationally renowned for its colorful Zulu beadwork. Traditional color combinations and patterns can still be found, but modern Zulu beadwork is evolving towards more contemporary styles. More than simply decorative weavings of intricate bead patterns, the beadwork has often been used as a means of communications between genders, conveying messages of both courtship and warnings.
The visual art of this feminine craft relates directly in one way or another to attracting a mate and marriage. Males are the traditional clients and purchasers and receivers of these beadworks, and they wear them to show involvement with women whom they are courting.
The geometric figures incorporate color-coded symbols which portray certain values. The three ways of determining a design are through the combination and arrangement of colors, the use and nature of an object, and the deliberate breaking of rules which guide these factors. The Zulu beadwork serves as both a social function, and also has political connotations, proudly displaying certain regional colors.