Articus Swift

MY ALTER ART to see, to buy at: [email protected]

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A detail of 'The Dust Cries Out,' a metaphor for the Twin Towers at Convergence in Alexandria, Virginia.

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'The Dust Cries Out,' a metaphor for the Twin Towers

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My sculpture, 'The Monumental Fool' at Convergence Church in Alexandria on Quaker Lane in Virginia. The poem I wrote as I decoded the image.

The Monumental Fool

One morning in the Garden of Reason

The monumental fool divorced his God and died.

He didn't know there was food in that root

Brittle like snappable cord.

The dry crack of the great divorce still echoes.

Hear the unsteady gait of the proud footless one

Tying on philosophies with bravado

Like shoeboxes roped onto stumps

He stalks through his world

Conqueror

King of fools

Death's prey

#large scale figurative sculpture. #visual poetry #art talks

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By Jean Hermanson.

Children in Dublin, Ireland, 1967.

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Maurice Brianchon  (French, 1899-1979)

 Woman dressing at sunrise (Femme s'habillant, au lever), 1942

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Carny Jesus. Female figure feeds coin slot in back and waits for the pay off.

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Here’s my accepted Calarts sketchbook! Second time applying, so glad I made it!

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Love this talent.

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Submission Friday:

study for “in utero”

wire, wire coat hanger

holly ballard martz www.hollyballardmartz.com

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Submission Friday:

Taken

Photographer: Ingrid Bugge

http://www.ingridbugge.com

http://www.balletposters.dk

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Submission Friday:

untitled.

Noèlia Andrés

http://noeliaandres.tumblr.com

[david]

what do you do at tumblr ? what actually is your job ? What do you like qbout tumblr ?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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david karp, founder and creator of tumblr

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Baby and new mother

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“On September 9, 1957, Louis Armstrong was about to go onstage…when he saw on television a crowd of whites jeering at black children who were trying to enter Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Armstrong was outraged. He had just been asked to undertake a goodwill tour of the Soviet Union for the State Department. Jazz had always been a symbol of American freedom and Armstrong [would’ve] been the first American jazz artist to appear behind the Iron Curtain…with Little Rock, he was reluctant to go. Armstrong cancelled the tour. ‘The way they’re treating my people in the south,” he told a reporter, ‘the government can go to hell. It’s getting so bad, a colored man hasn’t got any country.’” -Jazz (2001)

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Vincent van Gogh, Cafe Terrace at Night (1888)

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EGYPTIAN BLUE

Egyptian blue is the world’s oldest manmade pigment. And its recipe is so complex that it was lost for 1,500 years, from ancient Roman times till the 19th century.

First discovered at the time of the pyramids, Egyptian blue is made by mixing exact quantities of lime, sand, and a substance containing copper, then melting the blend in a furnace heated to between 1470 and 1650° F—no less, no more. What emerges is an opaque, crystalline material that’s perfectly blue. Artists would grind Egyptian blue and mix it with egg white, glue, or acacia gum to create a paint the color of a “swimming pool in summer.”

More about this color (and lots of other blues!) in Victoria Finlay’s book The Brilliant History of Color in Art.

Eye made for an Egyptian statue, about 1200 B.C. Glass and gypsum. The J. Paul Getty Museum

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Bernini’s veiled sculptures

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Edvard Munch Golgotha 1900 Oil on canvas 80 x 100 cm