COMING SOON TO A WALL NEAR YOU! We’re getting ready to paint our name on the side of the building, and ended up finding this little gem of a video …
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Sign Painters
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Jeffrey Simmons
Artist’s website: http://www.jeffreysimmonsstudio.com
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Glaucous
of a dull grayish-green or blue color. covered with a powdery bloom like that on grapes. Origin The glaucous effect can be achieved by putting a lighter semi-opaque glaze …
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A Visual History of Presidential Campaign Posters: 200 Years of Election Art from the Library of Congress Archives
A brief visual history of political propaganda design. BY MARIA POPOVA Original post from BrainPickings The intersection of propaganda and creative culture has always been a centerpiece of political communication, …
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Leon Golub and Painting from Photographs
Leon Golub was an awkward man who made ugly paintings. They’re about power mostly. Violence, war, and other unhappy things. I learned about Golub in art school, around the first years of …
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Robot Portraits
This robot was designed to have human-like focus. It looks first at the subject, then at the paper, and wiggles its little robot arm to make marks with a Bic …
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Dread Scott vs Dred Scott
Dred Scott Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally …
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This flag once protested lynching. Now it’s Dread Scott’s response to police violence
Source: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/this-flag-once-protested-lynching-now-its-an-artists-response-to-police-violence/ BY CORINNE SEGAL July 10, 2016 at 1:09 PM EDT “A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday,” a piece by artist Dread Scott, based on an NAACP banner, appears …
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What are V. Notes?
V. Notes are daily–ish thoughts and ideas related to art. I might post a series of pictures, a technique, an idea for a project, or some philosophical rambling. I try to make these emails relevant, …
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