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Cool Visual Art images

21 Oct

A few nice visual art images I found:

Opening Reception: Transformation Through Transportation by Cathedral Arts Project at JAXPORT Gallery
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Image by JAXPORT
6.28.12
"When our class visited JAXPORT, we were able to see and learn about many new and unfamiliar things. For each student different things sparked interest or inspiration. Some were inspired by the rail cars and train tracks, some the marsh land while others were inspired by the ships and cranes. Students sketched that which inspired them and discussed the subject of this inspiration with each other.

We brought each of our individual experiences and inspirations into the classroom and what emerged was an overarching idea of textures, shapes and patterns that were a part of the many sights. In order to highlight these textures and patterns, the students created printmaking blocks by carving their designs into foam sheets. They then used a traditional printing process to print these blocks into the pieces you see on display. With this process, the image can be printed multiple times.

Earlier in the year, our class studied Origami, the Japanese traditional art of paper folding. During this study we created paper cranes (birds). With the upcoming JAXPORT show, we wanted to honor the birds and wildlife of JAXPORT and the marsh lands that surround it while also highlighting their environmentally conscious practices by creating paper cranes using old annual reports given to us by JAXPORT. We created some on unpainted paper and some paper we painted with watercolor paints, then created the cranes. We wanted these to seem like they were a flock of birds flying through the gallery.

As a final art piece of our class and a culmination of our JAXPORT experience, the students were able to create an art piece about JAXPORT using acrylic paint and a "reverse color" painting technique in order to create more depth and interest in the art piece."

Laurie Brown, Cathedral Arts Teacher

The vision at Cathedral Arts is for every child to have access to a well-rounded, arts-rich education that endows his or her spirit with the imagination, self-confidence and strength of character that inspires great leadership and a will to succeed. Cathedral Arts provides twice-weekly after-school and summer programs in dance, music, drama and visual arts to 1,450 students throughout Jacksonville each year. Areas of instruction include ballet, West African dance, drumming, violin, chorus, acting, painting, sculpture and ceramics.

For additional information and/or images, please contact Meredith Fordham Hughes by email or by phone at (904) 357-3052.

About JAXPORT Gallery
Located on the first floor of JAXPORT Headquarters, the Gallery features local artists rotating on a bi-monthly basis. JAXPORT Gallery is open during normal JAXPORT Headquarters hours and admission is free. Learn more about JAXPORT and the Arts.

Opening Reception: Transformation Through Transportation by Cathedral Arts Project at JAXPORT Gallery
visual art
Image by JAXPORT
6.28.12
"When our class visited JAXPORT, we were able to see and learn about many new and unfamiliar things. For each student different things sparked interest or inspiration. Some were inspired by the rail cars and train tracks, some the marsh land while others were inspired by the ships and cranes. Students sketched that which inspired them and discussed the subject of this inspiration with each other.

We brought each of our individual experiences and inspirations into the classroom and what emerged was an overarching idea of textures, shapes and patterns that were a part of the many sights. In order to highlight these textures and patterns, the students created printmaking blocks by carving their designs into foam sheets. They then used a traditional printing process to print these blocks into the pieces you see on display. With this process, the image can be printed multiple times.

Earlier in the year, our class studied Origami, the Japanese traditional art of paper folding. During this study we created paper cranes (birds). With the upcoming JAXPORT show, we wanted to honor the birds and wildlife of JAXPORT and the marsh lands that surround it while also highlighting their environmentally conscious practices by creating paper cranes using old annual reports given to us by JAXPORT. We created some on unpainted paper and some paper we painted with watercolor paints, then created the cranes. We wanted these to seem like they were a flock of birds flying through the gallery.

As a final art piece of our class and a culmination of our JAXPORT experience, the students were able to create an art piece about JAXPORT using acrylic paint and a "reverse color" painting technique in order to create more depth and interest in the art piece."

Laurie Brown, Cathedral Arts Teacher

The vision at Cathedral Arts is for every child to have access to a well-rounded, arts-rich education that endows his or her spirit with the imagination, self-confidence and strength of character that inspires great leadership and a will to succeed. Cathedral Arts provides twice-weekly after-school and summer programs in dance, music, drama and visual arts to 1,450 students throughout Jacksonville each year. Areas of instruction include ballet, West African dance, drumming, violin, chorus, acting, painting, sculpture and ceramics.

For additional information and/or images, please contact Meredith Fordham Hughes by email or by phone at (904) 357-3052.

About JAXPORT Gallery
Located on the first floor of JAXPORT Headquarters, the Gallery features local artists rotating on a bi-monthly basis. JAXPORT Gallery is open during normal JAXPORT Headquarters hours and admission is free. Learn more about JAXPORT and the Arts.

 
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art journal project pg 8 – step 1

21 Oct

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art journal project pg 8 – step 1
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Image by alicia bramlett

art journal project pg 4 – step 1
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Image by alicia bramlett

art journal project pg 18 – step 1
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Image by alicia bramlett

 
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Nice Visual Art photos

21 Oct

Some cool visual art images:

KrisVerdonck-EXHIBITION1-PELLET
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Image by Z33 art centre, Hasselt
Pellet: the mass of undigested parts of a bird’s food that some bird species occasionally regurgitate, syn. a casting. (Wikipedia)

PELLET’s threatening dark ball is inspired by ‘The Cares of a Family Man’ by Franz Kafka. The story tells us about the ‘unheimliche’ creature Odradek, that looks like a star-shaped spool with thread wound upon it. The ‘family man’ in Kafka’s text is afraid that the creature is likely to survive him and will still be rolling through the house when his grandchildren will be living there.

credits:
PELLET (2010), by Kris Verdonck
Produced for the ‘circuit performance’ K, a Society
photo: Kristof Vrancken / Z33

 
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20 Oct

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All Who Enter
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Image by Thomas Hawk

Arts Crawl 2010-5
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Image by pennstatelive
Marwa Kowalski, a State College area resident, examines works of the New Media and Photography hallway of the Visual Arts Building during the 2010 Arts Crawl, held on Friday, April 9. Hundreds of students had the opportunity to display their work during the event, which spanned between the Visual Arts, Arts, Borland, Patterson and Stuckeman Family buildings, in addition to the performances of musical groups performed throughout the Visual Arts Building.

Self-portrait full of lies
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Image by Roberto Giannotti

 
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20 Oct

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Sol in Montreal. A Camera in my hands would be nice.
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Image by Sol Lang
Oh, of course… It’s on a tripod with the self timer on.

For the ONE campaign…

About ONE.org
ONE is the campaign to make poverty history.

ONE believes in the best American tradition of helping others help themselves.

ONE believes it is the time to join with other countries in a historic pact for compassion and justice to help the poorest people of the world overcome AIDS and extreme poverty.

ONE believes in fair trade, debt relief, fighting corruptions and directing additional resources for basic needs – education, health, clean water, food, and care for orphans.

ONE person. ONE face. ONE voice. ONE vote at a time. ONE better, safer world for all.

You are ONE.

Delicious refreshments were generously donated for the Newton South High School art opening by Whole Foods.
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Image by Newton Free Library
The library is delighted to announce the opening of Newton South High School’s first show in our Young Adult Art Gallery located on the second floor. For the first time in the gallery’s short history ceramics will be displayed in the cases adjacent to the gallery wall. A Snapshot of Newton South Arts will be on view from spring through early fall 2011 and includes a variety of media. A lively opening reception with food provided by Whole Foods Market took place on Saturday, April 2 at 3:00 pm in the Trustees’ Room and included a gallery tour.
At any given moment during the academic year, Newton South visual arts students are developing their creativity and building artistic skills in a variety of media. Student work is collected in college-bound portfolios, displayed around the school, at the Newton Education Center and entered into the Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards. This year Newton South art students received more Gold and Silver Key awards than any public or private school in Newton and the surrounding area.
While much of Newton South’s award winning work is displayed in other locations, the Young Adult Gallery exhibition is an accurate reflection of the quality and breadth of work produced by South students. The pieces were selected from students’ work in the following classes:
•Ceramics Teachers: Cindy Goldberg, Karen Sobin-Jonash
•Digital Art Teacher: Carol Ober
•Painting and Drawing Teacher: Megan Leary-Crist
•Photography Teacher: Robert Bouchal
The library wishes to extend its gratitude to Eric Blomster of abraxis framing co. in Newton, who generously donated his time, and provided the frames and mats cost-free, and to members of the Newton Camera Club who hung the show.
Newton Free Library

Sunset over Dresden
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Image by Klearchos Kapoutsis
Sunset over Dresden…
09.11.1938… 09.11.1989…

 
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Cool Visual Art images

20 Oct

A few nice visual art images I found:

Nucleon – a interactive visual installation
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Image by Retinafunk
This is our interactive visual art installtion called NUCLEON at Boom Festival 2010. Created by the Retinafunk visual and 3D artist Hannes Neumann a.k.a. Humanspacecraft with tools such as 3DS MAX and Quest3D with some additional Help by Retinafunks Andy Weisner on building up abnd interfaxce .
Its a immersive panoramic 3D virtual reality space, and its interactive, so the the public can navigate and trigger layers and textures. in the virtual 3D space with a MIDI controller or multi touch interface. Its aim is to provide a interactive virtual psychedelic experience.

 
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Statue of Brancusi in Herastrau Park, Bucharest

20 Oct

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Statue of Brancusi in Herastrau Park, Bucharest
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Image by cod_gabriel

Statue of Brancusi in Herastrau park, Bucharest
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Image by cod_gabriel

 
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Nice Visual Art photos

19 Oct

A few nice visual art images I found:

Icon design
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Image by *spo0ky*
Family of icons for Travelstart

The scaling issue in digital art
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Image by kevin dooley
Squaw Valley #19. This is a blurb I posted with a different photo in November. Since I have a lot of new contacts I decided to repost…

Flickr has made me observe a very interesting issue of SCALE in art. Does a piece of art look the same in one physical scale versus another? In Flickr, an image better look good in thumbnail if it’s going to get attention. Certain elements do well in thumbnail: humans, repeating geometry, landscapes, bold colors, flowers, bokeh. Pictures dominated by detail and/or subtlety, on the other hand, really only look good when viewed larger, and thus suffer in popularity.

As McLuhan said, "the medium makes the message". As the visual arts went from the physical to the electronic, it enabled scale. I wonder whether we really think of our images very much in terms of this complex issue of scale of view. In this paradigm, is an image that only looks good in one scale a lesser-quality image than one which, all things being equal, looks good in multiple scales?

Practically, on Flickr, I believe that while the quality of a larger version of an image is what generates faves and "custom" comments, it’s the quality of the thumbnail in large part that determines views and "award" comments.

(Explore 3.7.2008–Thanks friends!)

Rattex / 7784
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Image by *spo0ky*
Final cover artwork for Rattex’s mixtape ‘7784’

Order yours now.

 
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19 Oct

A few nice visual art images I found:

Street Art In Limerick City
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Image by infomatique
Culture

The Belltable Arts Centre on O’Connell Street hosts for local playwriting and drama. Mike Finn’s numerous plays have been successful, including Pigtown, set around a century of the city’s history, and Shock and Awe, an energetic retelling of Homer’s Iliad. The new University Concert Hall provides a large venue for national and international acts to visit the city. Limerick is also the home of several "street theatre" companies, including "Janzo Street Arts" and "The Umbrella Project" street theatre companies.

The Limerick City Art Gallery on Pery Square is the city’s chief venue for contemporary art exhibitions. It is home to a permanent collection of Irish art, which shows works from the early 18th to 20th century. Limerick’s major contemporary art event is EV+A (Exhibition of Visual+ Art) which invades the city annually, often in controversial ways. Established in 1977, EV+A has become one of Ireland’s premier annual exhibitions of contemporary art. Selected each year by a new curator, it brings international artworks and art by Irish artists to Limerick. The centre of the exhibition is the Limerick City Art Gallery, but EV+A generally uses numerous other venues throughout the city.

Other active Limerick arts groups include Contact Studios, which provides individual studio spaces for visual artists; the Daghdha Dance Company, a contemporary dance company that has adopted a renovated church in John’s Square, adjacent to St John’s Cathedral, as a performance space); the Fresh Film Festival, which is held each spring, and includes films made by young people (7–18 years) from all over Ireland; Impact Theatre Company; and Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery, which provides printmaking facilities, a venue for exhibitions and events and an education programme. The Limerick Youth Theatre provides young people with an opening into acting and production. It received attention in the national media with its 2005 production of Romeo and Juliet, which made comparisons between the ongoing feud in the city with that of the Montagues and the Capulets in the play.

The city has an active music scene, which has produced bands such as The Cranberries and guitarist Noel Hogans’ MonoBand, The Hitchers and many more. World-renowned electronic musician Richard D. James, more commonly known as Aphex Twin, was born in Limerick in 1971. The Limerick Art Gallery and the Art College cater for painting, sculpture and performance art of all styles. The Irish Chamber Orchestra and the Irish World Music Centre are both based in the University of Limerick. The University has a thousand-seat state-of-the-art concert hall that frequently hosts visiting performers. Limerick is also home to comedians The Rubberbandits , D’Unbelievables (Pat Shortt & Jon Kenny), Jimmy Carr and Karl Spain. Dolans Warehouse on the Dock Road has two venues specialising in live music; an upstairs venue which tends to accommodate comedians and folk and jazz acts, and a much larger warehouse venue holding 400, which tends to stage more popular (usually rock) acts, both national and international. Dance music is catered for at Baker Place which holds mainly local underground nights and Trinity Rooms which has regularly hosts big names like Hot Chip, Groove Armada, DJ Yoda and Jazzy Jeff alongside more cutting-edge names like Dan Le Sac, Christian Smith, and Missill.

The city is the setting for Frank McCourt’s memoir Angela’s Ashes and the film adaptation. It is the setting for the contemporary coming-of-age drama Cowboys & Angels and Robert Cunningham’s Somebody’s Daughter, which was shot in various locations around the city and had its premiere in King John’s Castle in July 2004.

A limerick is a type of humorous verse of five lines with an AABBA rhyme scheme: the poem’s connection with the city is obscure, however, the name is generally taken to be a reference to Limerick City or County Limerick. Sometimes particularly to the Maigue Poets, and may derive from an earlier form of nonsense verse parlour game that traditionally included a refrain that included "Will [or won’t] you come (up) to Limerick?" The earliest known use of the name "Limerick" for this type poem is an 1880 reference, in a St. John, New Brunswick newspaper, to an apparently well-known tune.

Street Art In Limerick City
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Image by infomatique
Culture

The Belltable Arts Centre on O’Connell Street hosts for local playwriting and drama. Mike Finn’s numerous plays have been successful, including Pigtown, set around a century of the city’s history, and Shock and Awe, an energetic retelling of Homer’s Iliad. The new University Concert Hall provides a large venue for national and international acts to visit the city. Limerick is also the home of several "street theatre" companies, including "Janzo Street Arts" and "The Umbrella Project" street theatre companies.

The Limerick City Art Gallery on Pery Square is the city’s chief venue for contemporary art exhibitions. It is home to a permanent collection of Irish art, which shows works from the early 18th to 20th century. Limerick’s major contemporary art event is EV+A (Exhibition of Visual+ Art) which invades the city annually, often in controversial ways. Established in 1977, EV+A has become one of Ireland’s premier annual exhibitions of contemporary art. Selected each year by a new curator, it brings international artworks and art by Irish artists to Limerick. The centre of the exhibition is the Limerick City Art Gallery, but EV+A generally uses numerous other venues throughout the city.

Other active Limerick arts groups include Contact Studios, which provides individual studio spaces for visual artists; the Daghdha Dance Company, a contemporary dance company that has adopted a renovated church in John’s Square, adjacent to St John’s Cathedral, as a performance space); the Fresh Film Festival, which is held each spring, and includes films made by young people (7–18 years) from all over Ireland; Impact Theatre Company; and Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery, which provides printmaking facilities, a venue for exhibitions and events and an education programme. The Limerick Youth Theatre provides young people with an opening into acting and production. It received attention in the national media with its 2005 production of Romeo and Juliet, which made comparisons between the ongoing feud in the city with that of the Montagues and the Capulets in the play.

The city has an active music scene, which has produced bands such as The Cranberries and guitarist Noel Hogans’ MonoBand, The Hitchers and many more. World-renowned electronic musician Richard D. James, more commonly known as Aphex Twin, was born in Limerick in 1971. The Limerick Art Gallery and the Art College cater for painting, sculpture and performance art of all styles. The Irish Chamber Orchestra and the Irish World Music Centre are both based in the University of Limerick. The University has a thousand-seat state-of-the-art concert hall that frequently hosts visiting performers. Limerick is also home to comedians The Rubberbandits , D’Unbelievables (Pat Shortt & Jon Kenny), Jimmy Carr and Karl Spain. Dolans Warehouse on the Dock Road has two venues specialising in live music; an upstairs venue which tends to accommodate comedians and folk and jazz acts, and a much larger warehouse venue holding 400, which tends to stage more popular (usually rock) acts, both national and international. Dance music is catered for at Baker Place which holds mainly local underground nights and Trinity Rooms which has regularly hosts big names like Hot Chip, Groove Armada, DJ Yoda and Jazzy Jeff alongside more cutting-edge names like Dan Le Sac, Christian Smith, and Missill.

The city is the setting for Frank McCourt’s memoir Angela’s Ashes and the film adaptation. It is the setting for the contemporary coming-of-age drama Cowboys & Angels and Robert Cunningham’s Somebody’s Daughter, which was shot in various locations around the city and had its premiere in King John’s Castle in July 2004.

A limerick is a type of humorous verse of five lines with an AABBA rhyme scheme: the poem’s connection with the city is obscure, however, the name is generally taken to be a reference to Limerick City or County Limerick. Sometimes particularly to the Maigue Poets, and may derive from an earlier form of nonsense verse parlour game that traditionally included a refrain that included "Will [or won’t] you come (up) to Limerick?" The earliest known use of the name "Limerick" for this type poem is an 1880 reference, in a St. John, New Brunswick newspaper, to an apparently well-known tune.

 
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19 Oct

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New Orleans – CBD: Ogden Museum of Art – Me, Knife, Diamond and Flower
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Image by wallyg
Me, Knife, Diamond, and Flower, executed by James Surls, was installed in front of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art on February 7, 2008 on loan arranged by Sculpture for New Orleans as part of its cultural recovery.

Stephen Goldring Hall, featuring 47,000 square feet of exhibition space, stands as part of a larger, three-building complex that makes up The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans, an art museum with a particular focus on the visual arts and culture of the American South within the context of the region’s history and culture. The museum’s features the Stephen Goldring Hall, Howard Memorial Library (renamed the Patrick F. Taylor Library), and the Clementine Hunter Wing. The museum is built off of the collection of Roger Ogden, a Louisiana businessman and philanthropist. By the mid-1980s, Ogden had collected a full range of paintings that recounted the history and changing aesthetics of painting in Louisiana.

Concrete plans for the Museum’s future were laid down in late 1994 when the public announcement of the founding of The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, built upon a gift of works from the Ogden Collection to the University of New Orleans Foundation. By 1999, the museum’s five-story Stephen Goldring Hall was under construction and its historic library was under restoration.

uea 1
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Image by tim caynes
Honestly, I only meant to adjust the colours a bit and it turned into some infrared channel black and white tintgasm. Its not my fault. There were too many sliders. I couldn’t help it.
Norwich, Norfolk, UK

Urban visual art forms
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Image by J-Wicz
this image has a nice sticker/poster/stencil, graffiti and the public-art on schottenturm. And I’m sure there are some stencils too.

 
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