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The Letter

 

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Children in Art History

Great mix of chidren depicted throughout art history at:

I Am A Child

Look-See

The Learning to See series by Peter Jenny, recently released from Princeton Architectural Press, is a series of art books filled with elegantly simple exercises. These books are pocket-sized, perfectly fitting into your bag.

The exercises, simple and elegant – such as finding patterns in the palm of your hand or drawing what you hear – are designed precisely to make you acutely aware of the world around you, to see patterns, shapes, light and dark. These books are deceptive in their simplicity, because the mere act of drawing what you hear or deconstructing an object into its elemental shapes gives you the space to focus on perception and imagination – to hone your artist’s eye. The author puts it best:

“This little book aims to open your eyes to the incidental, to the suggestions of images in everyday objects, to the beauty in the ordinary.”

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Say Cheese

Cheese Portraits

'Incurable Romantic Seeks Dirty Filthy Whore'

Harland Miller

"Christ was the greatest of all artists."  

Vincent van Gogh  

via: artdaily

'Vase with flowers in a window'

artist: Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder

c.1618

link: Mauritshuis

How did The Great Wave become one of the most famous images in the world?

When Hokusai's The Great Wave was first issued, in about 1830, Japan's contact with the outside world was strictly regulated. It was only in 1859 when Japan, under pressure from America and other powers, opened a few of its ports that Japanese prints began to be exported to Europe. They were quickly discovered and celebrated by European and American artists like Whistler, Van Gogh and Monet. The Great Wave inspired Debussy's symphonic sketches La Mer and has become one of the most iconic images of the power of the sea.

The excellent commentary on Hokusai's "The Great Wave" can be found at:

The History of the world in 100 objects podcast

 

via: Brain Pickings

"I’ve been using the word filter as a noun, but it’s also a verb. A filter lets some wavelengths of light through and certain kinds of information to seep in." James Welling

James Welling at Regen Projects