Studio Arts @ Siena

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Born on this day in 1853, Vincent van Gogh has become one of the most well-known artists of all time, despite spending his life in obscurity. His paintings are often deeply personal, and explore the highs and lows of human emotion.

“Rain,” 1889, by Vincent van Gogh

“Sunflowers,” 1888 or 1889, by Vincent van Gogh

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On his Instagram account, ‘@parisianfloors’, photographer Sebastian Erras shows us that you don’t have to look far to see something beautiful. Sometimes all you have to do is look down. Found here.

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by Urtica.

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“The Colors of Feelings” is an experimental dreamlike video rocking us smoothly through circular moves. It is also an analogy of feelings such as anger, love, sadness and joy ; they mix and eventually ease.

The visual compositions have been created out of paint, oil, milk, honey and cinnamon. (See original posting on Vimeo)

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SubmissionFriday: 

Dana Robinson

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Happy birthday to painter, photographer, and designer, Alphonse Mucha, born on this day in 1860.  

Mucha’s posters mostly represent voluptuous, long-haired, feminine beauties whose hair styles, dress fashions, flowers and other accouterments were as characteristic of Art Nouveau as were the curvilinear lines they were drawn with.

Alla Myzelev, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 51, No. 4, Special Forum Issue: At the Edge of Heaven: Russian Poetry since 1970  (Winter, 2007), pp. 822-823, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages

Though not currently on view, these eight prints represent Alphonse Mucha’s work in LACMA’s collection: http://bit.ly/1Or7enU

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David Hockney with L.A. Louver’s Peter Goulds: THEN, NOW and TOMORROW

David Hockney’s first showed at L.A. Louver in 1978, with a series of drawings a prints including illustrations for Grimm’s Fairy-Tales, the Hollywood Series and a group of variations on Picasso’s blue period guitarist.  

Over the last three decades, L.A. Louver has witnessed the artist’s fascination with technological change, evidenced in shows like New Work with a Camera in 1983 and Drawing in a Printing Machine in 2009.

We celebrate the artist’s ever-evolving practice in his new photographic drawings and paintings that merge digital and traditional techniques to alter our notions of perspective in our current exhibition. We can’t even begin to imagine what the artist has in store for us next!

Learn more about Hockney’s exhibition history with L.A. Louver on our website:

2015 (current): PAINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY 2009: DRAWING IN A PRINTING MACHINE  1983: NEW WORK WITH A CAMERA 1978: DRAWINGS & PRINTS

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Caitlin McCormack creates crocheted animals that appear to decay in front of your eyes, delicate corpses crafted from cotton string and glue. Read more on Colossal.

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Art is process and thinking through that process.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG1DfTXD5TA)

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN1xGYNcIX8)

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=902YXjchQsk)

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Secular Miniaturist workshops began springing up in towns from the 12th Century onwards, near the monastic centres that had been illustrating religious texts. Source See a collection of illuminated letters here.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd-kpj1-3uI)

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“Visual thinking is the foundation for being creative and solving some of the most complex problems,” explained author and founder of Innovation Studio Lisa Kay Solomon. Solomon and Emily Shepard of The Graphic Distillery discussed the key role of visual thinking in innovation at a recent

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John Wolseley: Carboniferous

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Lynda Barry’s Syllabus: An Illustrated Field Guide to Keeping a Visual Diary and Cultivating the Capacity for Creative Observation