September 2009
86 posts
RT @metmuseum: Happy birthday to Caravaggio, a revolutionary artist whose work inspired an international movement http://is.gd/3LbvK
Tittle Trouble →
The sequence of superscript dots are maddening! And are perilously close to the F’s arm in addition to revealing the poor kerning of the j-i. Also clearly an error in font choice…
sat thru the 1915, 3-hour film “Birth of a Nation” at the New School on 12th St. Good to be back in the city, but that movie is insane!
Pop Art ad campaign at Kiehl’s Pharmacy on 3rd Ave in NYC. http://twitpic.com/j8zxy
A bit of Warhol-style silkscreen graphics at Kiehl’s Pharmacy on 3rd Ave. in NYC. http://twitpic.com/j8zb8
sat thru the 1915, 3-hour film “Birth of a Nation” at the New School on 12th St. Good to be back in the city, but that movie is insane! #fb
heading to the Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts in Little Falls to see the amazing Sadler’s collage art exhibit. #fb
RT @LuisdoAmaral: Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ~Ambrose Bierce
Mannerism is a late 16th century style that is marked by elongation and distortion of forms.
Each Classical Order (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian) has its entablature, consisting of architrave, frieze and cornice. http://tinyurl.com/c3hteh
pity… RT @artnetdotcom: René Magritte Museum robbed at gunpoint; thieves make off with Magritte’s 1948 Olympia http://ow.ly/r37x
On this day in 1957, 300 US Army troops stood guard as 9 black children were escorted to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
ACT-UP’s art coalition Gran Fury. RT @agallerylondon: Which artist had the biggest positive effect on the world ever?
Typography crisis! @mullerbrockmann dont block me because of twithacker! I’m so depressed about this—my twitter life is now set in Papyrus.
I miss the radiant boy! RT @KeithHaring: “I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul.”
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to stop using system fonts. (Abuse of Papyrus will give me a stroke.)
RT @iTweetArt: The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech. ~Van Gogh #quote #art
Twiiter Stats from Information is Beautiful blog. Quite telling… http://twurl.nl/oo4yld
What am I doing? Well, changing my password because I was hacked by some freak loser who has nothing better to do.
To be sure!, but alas, I am a poorly paid teacher. RT @HueberBreuer: @profLauber I was jealous that you make $300-$500 a day online. =)
Sfumato, in particular, refers to the subtle blending of colors or tones so that there is little to no perceptible transition.
Sfumato is a painting technique which layers translucent color to create perceptions of depth, volume and form…
Go to Hell! Visit the Prado Museum and see Bosch’s triptych, “The Garden of Earthly Delights” (1505) with Google. http://twurl.nl/qaykou
Check out Who’s Who in Raphael’s fresco masterpiece “The School of Athens” 1509-11 [fig. 11.19] in the Vatican. http://tinyurl.com/bdm9xl
da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” (aka La Giaconda), painted in 1503-6, has been stolen and has had both acid and a rock thrown at it.
RT @whitneymuseum: “Out of the Erotic Ghetto”: New York Mag’s Jerry Saltz on Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction http://bit.ly/1iwBX
More from the Hell front… http://twurl.nl/62wemv
Vasari’s “Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects” free at Project Gutenberg! RT @kunstart http://tinyurl.com/ansyr3
RT @MelbStencilFest @whitneymuseum: Ed Ruscha’s “visual interpretation of Autumn,” from @nytimes: http://bit.ly/yaETq
I was raised by nurses. Via @Globatron: If I was an art prof. I’d tell students to get a nursing degree too so they’ll focus on their art.
RT @LuisdoAmaral: I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else ~ Pablo Picasso
<3 RT @villagesavant: Brand new Banksy spotted in London this morning. http://bit.ly/IUYoL #streetart #graffiti (via @nuart09)
RT @ArtObserved: The WSJ on the current Kandinsky retrospective of roughly 90 works - http://tinyurl.com/kpxhkd
RT @Tate: just revealed our 2010 exhibitions. Gauguin, Chris Ofili, Henry Moore coming up in London. Picasso at Tate Liverpool.
yay! RT @artlog Kandinsky@guggenheim 1st large-scale retrospective since ‘85 bringing together 100 paintings http://bit.ly/13aICO #art #nyc
yay! RT @whitneymuseum: short video teaser for Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction exhibit. http://bit.ly/czHYm
Do Students Cheat More in Online Classes? Maybe not. Chronicle’s Wired Campus… http://twurl.nl/pjyqaz
Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (1505) is a triptych that depicts 3 biblical scenes: Garden of Eden; World before the Flood; and Hell.
The Protestant Reformation was a Christian reform movement in early 16th century Europe. It’s ideas are based on Martin Luther’s 95 Theses.
In the 15th century, Flemish artists, like Van Eyck, innovated oil paint, panel painting and aerial perspective.
Masaccio’s Tribute Money (1427) is a fresco that depicts foreshortened figures as modeled form in space through perspective and shading.
shout out to Leatherstocking homey! RT @npg: Happy 220th Birthday to James Fenimore Cooper http://snipurl.com/rve4q
worthy words from the master… RT @mullerbrockmann: the iphone speaks my language when it comes to type.
secular: denoting things that have no religious or spiritual basis, opposite of sacred
Stay tuned for the subject matter of Botticelli’s La Primavera (1478) as secular themes begin to take hold in the late 15th century.
RT @threewinks: Apple has the BEST customer service and BEST consumer relations of any company I know. Thank you, Apple for treating me well
Sol LeWitt’s abstractions hit the NYC subway system… http://twurl.nl/xusxds
Beyonce is one classy lady.
RT @mullerbrockmann anyone know how i may reach mr. don draper of sterling-cooper, new york? i seem to have misplaced my rolodex.
me too! RT @NancyProctor: @drszucker please send a link to the Getty’s Rembrandt & pupils ad if you can-I’m intrigued!