John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot

Nevermind, a la Pantone

It says something about the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind that it can be recreated with Pantone samples, and be recognized. As seen here. 

A panoramic view of the Met

I used PhotoSynth on my phone to create this panorama (well, sort of a panorama) at one of the halls of the Met in NYC. So many wonderful things to see, I just spun around. 

To get a good view, click the image, and then click again to zoom and explore. 

Smile ...

... you're in a museum. 

This is a picture Nick took while we were exploring the Met - the Metropolitan Museum of Art - this weekend. I love reviewing the camera roll, and a) rediscovering things I looked at and b) seeing things I never noticed at all. This includes the above. 

 

The theatre

"I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don't want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction. I can get all that at home."
- Peter Cook

[Cook, a member of Beyond The Fringe, wrote this gag as a cartoon caption early in his career.] 

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Picky

"I don't much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart." 
- Georgia O'Keeffe 

Getting to work

"If I didn't along with people, I just spent time by myself painting. And I didn't get along with people a lot." 
- Julian Schnabel  

 

Reviews

"A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution."
- Dustin Hoffman

Cut along the perforated line

Chuckle, chuckle.

I saw the above shot in this collection of street art from all over.

Public art in San Diego

One of the things we noticed in San Diego was the ample amount of public art around the city: statues, installations, paintings, multimedia work ... once I started looking for it, it always seemed to be there. I've already noted the moving tribute to Bob Hope and his volunteer work for the U.S. armed forces, which is near one of the most interesting statues in the city: a recreation of the famous VJ Day in Times Square photograph. (Martha and I copied or at least imitated that pose for Nick right here.) 

This is one of the statues built along the waterfront. If you look carefully, you can see Nick through it, having a close look at how it was erected. 

 

Dream state

"I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside."
- Louise Nevelson 

 

In Venice, in full

Christopher Niemann's Abstract Sunday feature in the New York Times is a favourite (but unfortunately not weekly) feature. The latest one involves his trip to the Venice for the famed Biennale of the art world. One of his sketches:

Content

"I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality."
- Frida Kahlo

Artistic license

"Art is what you can get away with."
- Andy Warhol

[The image above is of The Andy Monument, a 10-foot, chrome-plated recreation of Warhol by Rob Pruitt and unveiled several weeks ago in Union Square in New York City.]

The aesthete

"He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes."
- James Thurber

Anatomy and art

"A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved."
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Mistakes

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
- Scott Adams

Pour this

A friend sent me the link to the video below a few days ago and, well, I forgot to go look. Until last night, that is, when I found myself kind of transfixed by it. It shows the work of Holton Rower of New York, who uses a system of pouring paint to achieve a result on plywood; as the colours turn, it's almost like a lava lamp in acrylic. The above is a sample from Rower's website.

S'always time ...

for a cup of tea.

Lovely bit of work from Grumpy Goat Gallery from Pam and Cara at Grumpy Goat Gallery.

 

What art is

"We know what art is. It's paintings of horses."

One of my favourite lines from 30 Rock this season, from the mouth of Jack Donaghy.

How to turn quite a few Rubik's Cubes into art

Very cool. Click on this link to learn more about where it came from.

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M.C. Escher

M.C. Escher's work is always fascinating, even though I tend to think of it as the type of posters I bought in university to cover up my wall. Here's a video from the BBC that looks an artist who understood geometry as well as art.

Imagination

"Everything you can imagine is real."
- Pablo Picasso 

Unorthodox Lego reconstruction: Nastassja Kinski and the snake

Look familiar? An attractive lady lying down with a bendy snake? It's just one of many recreations involving bits of Lego; if it's not ringing a bell, here's the orginal: Richard Avedon's iconic early Eighties portrait of Nastassja Kinski and a boa constrictor.

Stubborn little mouse

This piece is called There's a Mouse in My House and He Won't Go Away, by Brandon James Scott. My favourite detail? The cat in the background.