Monet paintings timeline

One of my favorite artists is Claude Monet. According to Wikipedia, Monet created almost 1100 paintings over a period of near on 70 years. Yesterday I looked at Van Gogh and showed a timeline of his work. This prompted me to look at Monet whose work I admire in order to show the productivity of [...]

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Van Gogh’s manic creative output

Reading about the renewed interest over Vincent Van Gogh’s ear and how part of it got severed from his body, I was reminded of a piece I wrote last year about Vincent Van Gogh. I was writing about the incredible number of paintings he did in the short time that he was creating until his early [...]

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Sheep art

Amazing! I’m speechless… or maybe sheepless.

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Photoshop art

Ancient artist wrote a piece about technologically created art and mused on the subject of whether this is art. I have touched on this subject in the past, where my discussion was more on the subject of whether an artist can sub-contract others to do his artwork. This is a similar discussion because it would [...]

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Hulah sunrise misty morning

More progress last night. Again a crappy picture because my camera is in for repair. The picture is shapping up well and I am quite happy with the progress.
A few technical details. I started on an underpaint of cadmium yellow light (I bought cadmium yellow instead of azo yellow by mistake but they match pretty [...]

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Forget about the money, it’s beautiful

Forget the £41M. It’s just beautiful.
“Le bassin aux nymphéas”, 1919, Claude Monet.

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A Jewish Vocabulary of Art?

Taken from the opening passage of “First Diasporist Manifesto” by R. B. Kitaj:
“Diasporist painting is unfolding commentary on its life-source, the contemplation of a transience, a Midrash (exposition, exegesis of non-literal meaning) in paint and somehow, collected, these paintings, these circumstantial allusions, form themselves into secular Responsa or reactions to one’s transient restlessness, un-at-homeness, groundlessness.”
I [...]

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Cool digital palette concept

This is cool! I saw it on CNet news.com. It is a concept design that came in as a finallist in the “nextGen” PC design competition sponsored by Microsoft. This idea, dsigned by Moh. Tri Hariyanto, is a touch sensitive digital palette that you could mix your colors and then paint with a set of brushes on [...]

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CCTV art

Picked this one up on Guy Kawasaki’s blog this morning. He quotes an article in the UK Daily Telegraph about a Manchester band called “Get Out Clause” who played their music in the street in front of the around eighty CCTV surveillance cameras around their city and then edited up a video of the result. They needed [...]

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The biggest (hoax) drawing in the world

CNet reports this morning that the biggest drawing in the world was just a hoax. The purported art project was to fly a GPS device around the world and create a massive drawing from the track of the device. Keen eyed and intelligent commenters on previous articles on this subject both on CNet and other places had [...]

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