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Great Poseidon’s Beard!
Hand embroidered and appliqued wool/rayon blend felt. At...
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Disneyland shopping bag, 1960′s
Bonnie P. O’Connell, Artist, University of Nebraska
Work seen at Philbrook Museum’s Bookworks III
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A rare early 18th century Memento Mori band gold known as a skeletal, as the whole length of the skeleton is employed on the outside of the hoop, with other emblems. The earliest known example is dated 1659. This ring is enamelled in black with a full skeleton, twin hearts for love and an hourglass, symbolic of the passage of time and the brevity of life.
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Get out of here,
get me some money too.
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Really? If Tumblr goes to Yahoo, I will be closing this down soon. One of the reasons I love Tumblr is that it is virtually ad-free and content driven - that in my opinion will change and change for the worse much as Yahoo has on its own.
Printmaking the Way Woody did It, offered by Gilcrease and Bobby C. Martin at Zarrow Center May 16-18. The workshop was excellent. I learned new things, connected to old ideas and Bobby was, of course, excellent. Thanks to Deborah Burke and the Zarrow Center for an excellent weekend. This is an example of one of my drypoint prints.
Sphinx, 2013 by David W. Nees
Copyright DWNees2013
With pochoir, a hand painted fashion plate, decorative or interior design, or illustration to be duplicated was carefully analyzed to determine each color layer. Often, but not always, an outline of the image was printed as a black and white lithograph and served as a base layer, especially in the design and fashion portfolios. In many interior illustrations, a line drawing or even a half-tone photograph was lithographed as the base layer. …
Separate stencils were cut, sometimes in thin sheets of copper, zinc, or aluminum, for every color component. Later stencil materials were made of celluloid or plastic and contemporary stencil materials are made of coated paper or acetate. Each successive color layer, using watercolor or gouache, was applied to the stencil with a brush called a pompon. … Skilled printers could achieve incredibly subtle details using gradation and stippling, spattering or even simply drawing additional details with a small brush on the final layer. Sometimes as many as 100 stencils were used to recreate a single image, and the resulting print was surprisingly rich and detailed.
You learn something new every day. Thanks B. Martin!
David Hockney ‘Joiners’
During the 1980’s, David Hockney began taking photographs from multiple viewpoints then piecing them together. He was interested in how we see and depict space and time and how we turn a 3 dimensional world into a 2 dimensional image.
‘Self portrait’, 1983‘Mother’, 1985
‘Nicolas Wilder studying Picasso’, 1982
‘Ice skater’ for the 1984 Olympics
Down the rushing glen,
We dare not go a-hunting,
For fear of little men;
life:
Today we present 40 portraits that help us see the human beings behind some of the 20th century’s most vital works of art.
Pictured: Roy Lichtenstein, 1963
(John Loengard—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper—Studio N.Y.C., 1958; photograph; gelatin silver print
Source: http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/29490##ixzz2TN8YLSB2
San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtIn honor of Jasper Johns’ birthday today.
