Sharon

Having only discovered art in the last few years, I am full of enthusiasm and feel very much like a child in a sweetshop, so many wonderful things to try! I dip into a variety of media and try out every subject in my search for my artistic self and what truly appeals. My blog is a record of my artistic...

Sue Choppers-Wife

Like most artists I'm still trying to find my niche with my artwork and one way to help do that is to share my thought process as I work. This is one reason I started my blogsite. I hope that by sharing my works in progress along with my frame of mind I might just hone not only my skills but my focus....

Lesly Finn

I am English, a mother of four children and a registered nurse. In 1999 I emigrated to New Zealand with my husband, since when I have been able to pursue a long held dream of expressing myself with paint. I work mainly with pastel or in acrylic on canvas, and I sometimes incorporate collage.When working...

Art Blogs 4 U

The purpose of this blog is to provide a centralised List of artists who write about their art on their blogs. The layout of the site may change from time to time but the List itself will remain on the main page so will always be easily seen by visitors. I will be posting to the blog at regular intervals...

Between us (and the body). Shen Wei

A Chinese photographer moves to the U.S. Here, he discovers bodies. Bodies as social places. Bodies as identifiers, as the places of definition. How does the place one belongs to relate to the body one owns (isn't this a beautiful expression? to own a body...)?Shen Wei's...

Yinka Shonibare and the artist's freedom

Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa (2003)Shonibare's most famous works play on the idea of origin and power. The first lecture is clear: headless people are scrambling for Africa. They are dressed in European clothes, but made of African fabric. They are false. But this...

Art Blogs 4 U .... and it's Day 3

Sorry!!! - had a bit of a glitch yesterday and sign on box disappeared (totally my fault and won't happen again, promise!) New Sign on is started below and original names are now on permanent list.About Art Blogs 4 UHave you ever tried to join a list of links to art blogs? (there are several around)Did...

About Art Blogs 4 UHave you ever tried to join a list of links to art blogs? (there are several around)Did weeks go by and your name not appear?Like to help to make THIS list a success? If you answered YES .... then PLEASE READ ON!HOW TO JOINThis list is open to anyone practising 2-dimensional fine...

Shadowing light. Jindřich Štreit.

This magnificent artist has been recommended to me by my brother. Just look:And more...I feel like showing most of the images on the site which represents him, www.talent.cz.One thing makes me wonder. All of the pictures above were taken in Czechoslovakia before 1989....

Imagining we would like abstract painting and would actually accept things that don't say anything, don't even smile or bark, simply have colors

Lori Herbserger, New Paintings Installation (Untitled), 2002 (acrylic on canvas and wall)

Technorati: painting, visual art, fine art, art, contemporary art, vvoi

Make art to experience and not art to read about

"7. Don’t make modern art. Modern art tends to be ironical, cynical, self referential, afraid of beauty, afraid of meaning-other than the trendy discourse of the day-,afraid of technology, anti-artistry.Furthermore contemporary art is a marginal niche.The audience is elsewhere.Go to them rather...

Delicious.The only thing that irritates me here - and I suppose that's just a silly problem - is that the brilliant guys that created this, Winkler and Noah, have absolutely no problem whatsoever selling these wonderful, environmentally friendly messages...... and next...

The Perfect Gift

Keep the world full of surprises.If you don't have any books to cross, and are really not in the mood for a birthday party performance, then think of something else. Make it fluffy, hard, shiny, matte, transparent, sticky, disgusting, funny, shocking, simple, personal,...

Layers

Of course, of course. This is not what it seems.This is not a concrete column. This is not graffiti. This is something entirely different. It is a picture, a photo of graffiti. It is printed on dibond, the type of aluminum that is used for traffic signs, for example. And...

Magdalena Jetelová. How much should we know?

See this>These are powerful images. Dark, quite genuine in their landartishness, in their hands-on approach to the material. No gimmicking with the pictures here, just plain, gloomy black-and-white pulp.My recent lectures, concerning Shakespeare, his work and times,...

Discreet vulgar and artsy

Both works are created by Mexican artist Amor Muñoz.

Technorati: fine art, visual art, design, sex, art, contemporary art, vvoi

The Thought Project by Simon Hogsberg is very close to the spirit of Sophie Calle, with a slight postsecret twist. Here, too, the idea is simple: ask strangers what they were thinking at the very moment you stopped them. What impresses is the quality of the answers. It...

Happy Housing

Gilles Barbier, The Prince of Bellies (2003)
Gilles Barbier, Le Terrier (2005)

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Technorati: art installation, installation, art, contemporary art, vvoi

Two more pics of Cabrita Reis + bonus

(part 1 here)It is constructed. It is not freely distributed. It has a structure. It is the structure it has. The lights have rhythm. The lights are the chaotic order that sustains. They... some are covered with glass. Like a mirror of water. But their transparency doesn't...