1. 17:45 29th Mar 2013

    Notes: 244

    Reblogged from yama-bato

    Tags: Morris Gravesstrawberry flowerswatercolourart

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    yama-bato: [+] cavetocanvas: Morris Graves, Spring Bouquet No. 2 (Wild Strawberry Flowers), 1975 See more of Graves’ work held at Philadelphia Museum of Art.

    yama-bato:

    [+]

    cavetocanvas:

    Morris Graves, Spring Bouquet No. 2 (Wild Strawberry Flowers), 1975

    See more of Graves’ work held at Philadelphia Museum of Art.

     

  2. 14:04 8th Feb 2013

    Notes: 48

    Reblogged from schoolofvisualarts

    Tags: Circus familysaltimbanquesMaëlle Doliveuxart

    schoolofvisualarts: Circus Family by Maëlle Doliveux Oh, les saltimbanques. So to speak.

    schoolofvisualarts:

    Circus Family by Maëlle Doliveux

    Oh, les saltimbanques. So to speak.

     

  3. 13:32 28th Jan 2013

    Notes: 1

    Tags: artDave Hickeydead practiceThe Brooklyn Rail

    THANKS FOR THE INVITATION. I AM A WRITER. I HAVE WRITTEN A LOT ABOUT ART. I NO LONGER DO BECAUSE THE ART WORLD IS TOO STUPID. I DON’T KNOW ANY WORDS THAT ARE SHORT ENOUGH OR LONG ENOUGH. IT’S A DEAD PRACTICE BUT FUN WHILE IT LASTED. WITH AFFECTION, Dave Hickey
    — Irving: - The Brooklyn Rail
     

  4. 16:45 28th Nov 2012

    Notes: 797

    Reblogged from laughingsquid

    Tags: map portraitsartEd Fairburn

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    laughingsquid: Map Portraits by Ed Fairburn

    laughingsquid:

    Map Portraits by Ed Fairburn

     

  5. 20:18 8th Nov 2012

    Notes: 103

    Reblogged from artistandstudio

    Tags: Elaine de KooningJFK portraitsart

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    artistandstudio: Elaine de Kooning in her Manhattan studio

    artistandstudio:

    Elaine de Kooning in her Manhattan studio

     

  6. 19:23 18th Oct 2012

    Notes: 647

    Reblogged from 50watts

    Tags: EraserheaddrawingartAndres Guzman

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    allmypistachios: Erasers feel good to draw on.Like banana peels. And just look what he drew…By Andres Guzman.

    allmypistachios:

    Erasers feel good to draw on.
    Like banana peels.

    And just look what he drew…By Andres Guzman.

     

  7. 17:44 15th Oct 2012

    Notes: 395

    Reblogged from mythologyofblue

    Tags: artlithographsglaciersLouis Agassiz

    mythologyofblue:

    Three lithographs from Louis Agassiz, Etudes sur les glaciers, 1840.

    (lindahall)

    These are gorgeous, thanks!

     

  8. 14:16 23rd Sep 2012

    Notes: 62

    Reblogged from longreads

    Tags: Kermit OliverHermesArtTexasPostman

    longreads: The only American designer for high fashion retailer Hermés lives in Waco, Texas—and works as a postal worker: Kermit was sitting in the living room, in an armchair covered by a red-and-white quilt. He stood up when I arrived. He was small-framed, with salt-and-pepper hair combed off his forehead. Dressed in loose khakis and an untucked plaid oxford shirt, he gave the impression of a small-town surgeon who’d just gotten off the late shift. His eyeglasses were in his hands, which continuously fidgeted while the rest of him stood still. ‘Why do you want to talk to me?’ he asked.  I stammered something about his story, how interesting it was. He looked skeptical. ‘Why don’t you tell me what my story is,’ he said. I told him what they had said in Lyon, reciting the words almost like the first line of a fable: ‘There once was a postman who designed scarves for Hermès.’ ‘Well, it’s never that simple,’ he said with a mysterious grin. “Portrait of the Artist as a Postman.” — Jason Sheeler, Texas Monthly More from Texas Monthly This story is sad and wonderful. 

    longreads:

    The only American designer for high fashion retailer Hermés lives in Waco, Texas—and works as a postal worker:

    Kermit was sitting in the living room, in an armchair covered by a red-and-white quilt. He stood up when I arrived. He was small-framed, with salt-and-pepper hair combed off his forehead. Dressed in loose khakis and an untucked plaid oxford shirt, he gave the impression of a small-town surgeon who’d just gotten off the late shift. His eyeglasses were in his hands, which continuously fidgeted while the rest of him stood still. ‘Why do you want to talk to me?’ he asked. 

    I stammered something about his story, how interesting it was. He looked skeptical. ‘Why don’t you tell me what my story is,’ he said. I told him what they had said in Lyon, reciting the words almost like the first line of a fable: ‘There once was a postman who designed scarves for Hermès.’

    ‘Well, it’s never that simple,’ he said with a mysterious grin.

    “Portrait of the Artist as a Postman.” — Jason Sheeler, Texas Monthly

    More from Texas Monthly

    This story is sad and wonderful. 

     

  9. 19:36 17th Sep 2012

    Notes: 57

    Reblogged from artistandstudio

    Tags: Peggy Guggenheimcollectingart

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    artistandstudio: “Money, mental illness, sex, and art - what more could a poor little rich girl want? Peggy Guggenheim was known as a great patron of modern art, but it seems clear from her autobiography that her advocacy of the avant-garde at a time when it had not yet become institutionalized had as much to do with her unhappy feeling of being a strange thing as with her admiration for the art’s subversive strangeness. In deciding to devote her adult life, in every respect, to modern art - she married or lived with such figures as Lawrence Vail, Samuel Beckett, and Max Ernst; Marcel Duchamp was her advisor, Pier Mondrian a friend, Jackson Pollock a protege - she was, in effect, trying hard to reconstitute her eccentric Jewish family.”  more

    artistandstudio:

    “Money, mental illness, sex, and art - what more could a poor little rich girl want? Peggy Guggenheim was known as a great patron of modern art, but it seems clear from her autobiography that her advocacy of the avant-garde at a time when it had not yet become institutionalized had as much to do with her unhappy feeling of being a strange thing as with her admiration for the art’s subversive strangeness. In deciding to devote her adult life, in every respect, to modern art - she married or lived with such figures as Lawrence Vail, Samuel Beckett, and Max Ernst; Marcel Duchamp was her advisor, Pier Mondrian a friend, Jackson Pollock a protege - she was, in effect, trying hard to reconstitute her eccentric Jewish family.”  more

     

  10. 20:09 29th Jul 2012

    Notes: 20

    Reblogged from todayiwasinspired

    Tags: art

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    todayiwasinspired: Johanna Urhman; Warning (2011). (via Jonnakonna)

    todayiwasinspired:

    Johanna Urhman; Warning (2011).

    (via Jonnakonna)