A few nice visual art images I found:
Jason Howlett (left), Kevin Naulls (centre), Tarek Al-Azbat (right) at |FAT| 2012 – Fashion Art Toronto – Pictures from the Launch Party Art Show
Image by Jason Hargrove
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|FAT| Arts & Fashion Week is a platform for inventive, pioneering and contemporary expression. This annual multi-arts event features 200 national and international fashion designers, visual artists, bands and performers each year. The festival delivers a packed schedule of runway shows, live performances, music, photography exhibits, video screenings and installation exhibits, to celebrate leaders in a wide range of art forms. Held every April, the event welcomes 5,000 people including stylists, buyers, curators, critics, members of the media, the arts, music and fashion related industry as well as the general public.
| FAT | Arts & Fashion Week has a mandate of showcasing artistic disciplines rooted in fashion and their exploration of clothing and the body in today’s time. The festival emphasizes this mandate through the showcase of fashion design, photography, installation, film, video, performance, music and dance, in an effort to push forward and redefine our perception of the fashion phenomenon.
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Photography by Jason Hargrove
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Body Worlds 3: The Thinker | Art E. Rial
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How do we know the truth in an uncertain world? Hamlet lost himself in anguished thoughts about the presence of absence of the spiritual in the physical. Holding Yorick’s skull in his hand he is reminded of the recent ghostly apparition and ponders deeply about the possibility of ever truly understanding anything in this confusing world. Hamlet sought revenge for the murderer of the king, his father — Claudius. Hamlet agonized, “To be or not to be” expressing his fear of the consequences and the moral dilemma that prevents action.
The inventor-artist-scientist-technician behind Body Worlds is Gunther Von Hagens whose life work is to carry on the tradition of Renaissance anatomists. He uses contemporary technologies for teaching, learning and research about the miracle of the human anatomy. He situates each display as sensitively as possible by referring to archetype poses from canonical works of visual arts and literature.
The figure I was drawing is composed almost completely of the arterial system, reminiscent of brightly coloured coral or intricate lace work. The structure of the the bones remains visible but this is clearly a story about the river of life, our life line. The brain is particularly rich in vessels reminding us of the Artist Who wove such a life form and the intense activity in the site of our ability to perceive, to remember, to know and even to emote and to feel . . .
The thinker is in deep thought as he holds this precious element of life in his hands. It is placed on a glass-topped table which reminds us of a 17th century cabinet of curiosities, where objects became exotic because of the way in which they were framed.
I completed this 6.5" x 8" Pentil 0.5mm drawing just before closing time in less than an hour. As part of the agreement on Drawing and Sketching inside the exhibition I am making this available to both Science World in Vancouver, BC and the Institute for Plastination in Heidelberg, Germany.
Belhaven University
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Bitsy Irby Visual Arts & Dance Center