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This buff part of the male anatomy (above the crop!) was often emphasized among the sculpted gods and heroes of classical art. Here’s what to call it:

Aphrodite’s saddle

Hercules’ girdles

Athlete’s girdle

Apollo’s belt

Adonis belt

Poseidon’s fanny-pack (well, allegedly)

The Lansdowne Herakles (detail), about A.D. 125, Roman. The J. Paul Getty Museum

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Chemical Transformations

Artist Mariah Robertson works with chemicals to develop her abstract images. Using chemicals in photography is nothing new, but it is how Robertson manipulates the chemicals which makes her work different to other photographs.

First, the artist’s “experiments with photographic chemistry” are camera-less experiments, focusing rather on the chemical effects on already exposed or ‘damaged’ paper. By manipulating the way fixer, water and developer are used, the artist is able to turn the photographic medium, into a painterly one.

Similarly, artist Lea Hamilton changes the surface of copper in her “Vanitas” series (2014). By applying a chemical mixture of hydrogen peroxide, salt, vinegar and various other elements to the copper of “Vanitas 2”, Hamilton alters the surface to create texture and colour; the copper becomes the canvas, the chemicals the paint.

Both artists take a material and deconstruct it’s ‘normal’ use; the photograph becomes a painting, as does the metal sheet. The works made by these artists are great examples of how artist mediums aren’t defined by their materiality; with the right chemical reaction, these mediums can indeed experience a fluidity of materiality.

- Anna Paluch

Alberto Sanchez

Hong Kong Contemporary Art

#hong kong #contemporary art #art collection #urban art #landscape #city art #art #art work

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Kai Carpenter

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Kai Carpenter continuing to kill it with gouache

Salvador Dalí’s Rare 1975 Illustrations for Romeo & Juliet

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/01/14/salvador-dali-romeo-juliet/

Lost Collection of Andy Warhol Art Recovered From Floppy Disks

http://mashable.com/2014/04/24/warhol-art-recovered-amiga-disks/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link

#andy warhol #long lost art #art #pop art

Kate Shaw

#Uncanny Valleys #colorful art #art work #contemporary #get high #high art #artistic #colorful #playful

Summer portrayed in GIF Illustrations by Rebecca Mock

#summer #summer days #happy days #lazy days #gif #illutrations

by Japanese artist Mari Ito

Best Japanese art always opts for a characteristic (e.g. kawaii) subject to be featured in their art. Creativity for them might be creating a whole new character with different thoughts and space...

#mari ito #art #japan art #japanese art

By Henrik Simonsen

What I'd like to call the wallpaper art :)

#wallpaper #art #flowery #aesthetic #wall #painter #paint #painting #skull #pattern art

Vertical Horizon by Romain Jacquet Lagreze

It's the Affordable Art Fair season in 852!!!!!!!

Not that exciting for me actually since none of those art are reallyyy affordable for me. My place in this art world will always be the watcher and observer, not the buyer. Someday, perhaps, I could be a dealer. Who knows :)?

#Romain Jacquet Lagreze #affordable art fair #vertical horizon #art collection #city art #artistic #sky #art

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Weaving the Invisible Thread: Urban Fiction 2.0 by Petra Gemeinboeck

Urban Fiction 2.0 is a participatory installation that deploys locative devices and social media. Enacted in Sydney, Australia, the installation is activated by participants through a special mobile app that allows them to “weave an imaginary lace over Sydney’s urban and social landscape.”

With the app, users can move through physical space and cause disturbances to the imaginary “lace” projected onto a GPS rendering of the city. As the app measures the movements of each participant in real time, any motion or disturbance caused will immediately alter the virtual lace.

Images of lace, fabric, and thread symbolize the urban and social sphere and point to the idea of each participant’s role as a networked actor, moving through the space and collectively tracing their paths. An example of locative art, Urban Fiction 2.0 allows users to feel a heightened sense of awareness of their positions in the imaginary lacy grid of the city and in the physical space they occupy. With a nod to the locative capabilities of Web 2.0 platforms, Urban Fiction 2.0 enables participants to “weave” their own experiences into the model of the city grid, issuing a sense of their actions in the broader context of a networked society.

For more information about Petra Gemeinboeck’s work, please visit her website here.

- Victoria Nolte