#about art

[lexiklecksi]

AI accidentally made me believe in the concept of a human soul by showing me what art looks like without it.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

BREAKING: The first official portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama together has been unveiled and it's absolutely stunning.

Look closely at the tiny components of this piece...

"Tradition is not untouchable. We can own it, we can shape it, we can move it the way we need," Nigerian-born artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby told Harper's Bazaar.

The artwork is one of 28 pieces that have been commissioned for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, which opens later this week on Juneteenth.

Harper's explained that Akunyili Crosby’s masterpieces are "technically complex" and while they are designed to "resemble conventional figurative paintings at a distance" they are actually "composed of dense layers of embedded images, in something like a visual archive."

If you look, you should be able to spot a volume of the Harvard Law Review that was published while Barack Obama was the journal's first Black President. You'll also spot Stevie Wonder's "Talking Book," which was the first album that the former First Lady ever owned.

“Yes, he was the President. But she is incredible," said Akunyili Crosby.

“Nostalgia for the past is always a dicey thing. But that does not mean it wasn’t important for me to kind of touch upon the feelings we all had—and the hope," the artist added.

Now, more than ever, we miss the days when we had a dignified, compassionate, intelligent First Couple.

[zarahartist]

You ever just see an artist’s collection of regular sfw art and can immediately tell what their kink is?

Just staring at a beautiful work and thinking “I know what you are”

[lionofchaeronea]

A brief story, if you'll indulge me.

Some years ago, I briefly taught literature at an art school. At the end of the academic year, I was asked to be one of the judges for the seniors' final exhibition. (This wasn't because of any special competence on my part--everyone took turns judging.)

The highlight of the exhibition, to my mind, was a huge canvas by a very talented young man who had combined oil paint with pasted-on newspaper clippings about current events. When I asked him what it meant, he explained that it represented the futility of art, its complete exhaustion in a postmodern world. He then added that once he graduated, he planned never to paint again.

Why do I bring this up? Well, I just got back from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art ("Modern One"), which has a world-class collection of Surrealist art, including works by some of my favorite painters of the twentieth century -- René Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington. As I marveled at the collection, drinking in each piece, I recalled that young man, not without a tinge of sorrow. I hope that he ultimately changed his mind. Because let me tell you, if I had the gift of depicting my dreams and nightmares with paint and a brush, I would never stop until I keeled over at my easel.

[writer-woes-and-woahs]

Don't lock yourself in one creative box!

Creative energy is a renewable resource; you can use it on any number of projects in many different art forms, including ones you've never even tried before.

"but I don't know anything about--" Who cares??

Amateur work is more than okay. You don't have to show anyone, and you don't have to learn any of the complex theories if your goal isn't to get really good at whatever you're doing.

(and who knows, maybe you'll fall in love with the new form!)

Also, sometimes you just need to get an insistent idea onto something other than your brain matter so other ideas can keep flowing. Our minds can be like clogged drains that way.

Be free, little bird. An artist is an artist is an artist

[cebra-gris]

The broad scope of visual media considered New Aesthetic was described by Bruce Sterling in Wired magazine, which included ‘[…] satellite views. Parametric architecture. Surveillance cameras. Digital image processing. Video frames mixed with data. Glitches and corruption artifacts. 3D voxelized pixels on real-world geometries. Dazzling camouflage. Zoom distortions and render ghosts. And, finally, nostalgic retro graphics.’

El amplio alcance de medios visuales considerados New Aesthetic fue descrito por Bruce Sterling en en la revista Wired, que incluía ‘[…] vistas satelitales. Arquitectura paramétrica. Cámaras de vigilancia. Procesamiento digital de imágenes. Fotogramas de video mezclados con datos. Fallos y artefactos de corrupción. Píxeles 3D voxelizados en geometrías del mundo real. Camuflaje deslumbrante. Deformaciones por zoom y Render ghosts. Y, por último, gráficos retro nostálgicos.’

Sterling was beginning to grasp that this new thing, approach, and attitude existed, one that could be used extensively, horizontally, and synchronously. Additionally, several early New Aesthetic commentators seized upon the various categories of computational errors and glitches as a way to identify fascinating, inhumanly flawed contemporary images as a vital element of New Aesthetic's fields of interest.

Sterling empezaba a captar que existía esta nueva cosa, enfoque y actitud, que podría ser utilizada de manera extensa, horizontal y sincrónica. Adicionalmente, varios de los primeros comentaristas del New Aesthetic se agarraron a las diversas categorías de errores computacionales y glitches como una forma de identificar imágenes contemporáneas fascinantes y con fallas inhumanas como un elemento vital de los campos de interés del New Aesthetic.

[02xart]

ooc: very old sketches! I was talking to a friend of mine about kid Art. Figured why not share these here too. He was so shy and never talked, just a ball of anxiety.