HOW HE DISCOVERED WRITING
About 15 or 16 years ago, I was working at a record store and had never really considered writing. The guy that owned the record store, Jim Boylston, was a big reader, and he would come in once a week with a stack of books. Read the rest of this entry »
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Your artist’s statement can be a moving testament to your creativity and integrity. The expression of this commitment will vary, but the effectiveness of your artist’s statement stems from the authority with which you write it.
Our words “author” and “authority” come from the Latin root “augere,” which means “to increase, to create, to promote. Read the rest of this entry »
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Frida Kahlo, the 20th-century Mexican artist, painted her emotions. Bleeding hearts, rivulets of blood and bodily organs grace many of her canvases. To understand why she painted such powerful images, one has only to read about her life, loves and medical problems. Read the rest of this entry »
CUMBERNAULD is not auld but it is encumbered with a reputation for monstrousness, mundanity, and a pervasive greyness that settles on the soul like slush.
As it enters its early fifties, the town is a national joke – Scotland without its make-up on, its curlers still in. How refreshing then to walk its streets in company with a man who sees beauty where others see none. Read the rest of this entry »
Article and Photographs by: Alain Briot
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you:
I am here to live out loud.
Emile Zola Read the rest of this entry »
MAIDENS In one corner of his basement studio stands a $22,000 printer, state-of-the-art no less.
Nearby, sit empty wine bottles and a wine glass, stained red, amid the clutter only an artist would collect.
Original paintings and embellished giclées - prints from a digital source using inkjet printing - hang from the walls; paper prints sit here and there. Read the rest of this entry »
Internationally acclaimed political artist Malcolm McClay will be the featured speaker at Baton Rouge Gallery’s 2009 Flatscape Video Art Series, Subversion: Anarchy, Art & Activism, at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28.
The second of the three-part Flatscape series, titled “Illegal Evidence: Art Against Authority” will feature McClay, who will talk about his experience as an artist and activist. It also will feature three distinctive works of video art that examine anarchist and activist elements in illegal installation art, artistic sabotage as well as guerrilla artists caught in the act. Read the rest of this entry »
Not your ordinary durian orchard, that is, but the richly creative environs of an artist enclave, which has produced an intriguing exhibition.
WHAT do you get when three artists live, paint, and exchange ideas together for one year in an idyllic, orchard-like retreat? Read the rest of this entry »
I do not know whether I was a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming I was a man. — Chung-Tzu (369 BC-286 BC).
The surrealist artist Salvador Dali was asked if it was hard to paint a picture. “No,” he replied. “It is either easy or impossible.” Read the rest of this entry »
IN one of Sun Mu’s best-known paintings from his “Happy Children” series, uniformed North Korean kindergartners sing like birds huddled together on a clothesline, their beaming faces so alike they could be clones. At the bottom of the posterlike image, a red slogan leaps out against a yellow background: “We are all happy children!”
When Sun Mu, an artist from North Korea who uses a pseudonym for security reasons, first exhibited paintings like this in Seoul two years ago, the police showed up to investigate. Read the rest of this entry »