Into the Picture

Among the many fascinating things about yesterday's conference on photography as an art form by Delfim Sardo at the Culturgest, the one that confused me most was the setting.Since the small auditorium where the conference took place filled up quickly, the organizers decided...

Who owns art?

The excellent newsgrist has several articles about appropriation and the issues related authorship.So who does own art?And what is art ownership about? Only in the simplest of all versions is it about owning an object. The thing is, it has been increasingly clear that ownership...

Body Art of the YouTube era

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Sam Taylor-Wood's vanitas

Sam Taylor-Wood, Still Life (video stills), 2001Still Life is one of the most classical works of contemporary art I know. It inscribes itself in art history with hardly any commentary. This is not just a Still Life. It is a vanitas, a particular type of still life developed...

Do-Ho Suh - Moving On

Do-Ho Suh is an immigrant.See the nostalgia of this Staircase. See how suspended it is, how volatile and fragile, yet how present and precise. Apparently the artist waited 6 years to ask the landlord of his house in Seoul if he could measure the house to reproduce the staircase....

Annaig

French artist Annaig began her blog in 2005 as a way to display her day to day work, experimentations as well as finished artworks, and share it with fellow artists and art amateurs worldwide. Her work includes watercolors, acrylics, pen drawings and pastel paintings. She is interested in having a realistic...

Featured painting by Anne Kullaf

Taxi in the rain

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Featured painting by Sue Choppers-Wife

East meets west (Oils)

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Sue Bleiweiss

Mostly a self-taught fiber artist, I enjoy the process of experimenting with different techniques to discover what works. This time spent experimenting has caused my work to evolve and change over the years and so have my interests in different elements of the textile arts. Working with silk fusion...

Jana Bouc

Greetings! I'm a watercolor painter and teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area who also experiments with monotype, oils and acrylics. I've been posting my artwork and writing about art and life nearly daily since May 2006.

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Featured painting by Tracy Helgeson

Elkins Barns

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Lisa Lorenz

Lisa (nee Lariviere) Lorenz was born in Montreal, Canada and has been drawing and painting exuberantly since childhood and her talent has expanded over many years. She studied graphic design and advertising at Concordia University and then pursued a career with a major railway for 9 years. She met her...