My very favorite thing to wake up to this week? This animated short. Continue reading The best new-found thing in the world? An object at rest, animated short | #VisualArts on Blog#42
Category Archives: Visual Arts
Cab Calloway: A musical and visual inspiration | Sketches: The Documentary | PBS
A singer, dancer and bandleader, Cab led one of the most popular African American big bands during the jazz and swing eras of the 1930s-40s, with Harlem’s famous Cotton Club as his home stage. Continue reading Cab Calloway: A musical and visual inspiration | Sketches: The Documentary | PBS
Memories of Ailey’s “Cry”
One of my fondest and most vivid memories of a cultural event is of the original Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater troupe. I saw them when I was ten or eleven. I was lucky enough to be able to finally take my daughter to see them last year. Much to my chagrin, they didn’t perform Cry. I’d shown her the YouTube videos, so she knows what Cry is about. Continue reading Memories of Ailey’s “Cry”
Art Is Vital – James Hamblin – The Atlantic
The best education facilitates artistic voice and creative habits of mind.
ASPEN — It has been three years since the spectacular video of Lil Buck dancing to Yo-Yo Ma brought jookin—which draws from hip-hop, ballet, jazz, and modern dance—into mainstream consciousness. Ma would later call Buck a genius; and, he is. According to the theory of multiple intelligences, which posits nine distinct dimensions, Buck is clearly off the charts in intelligences like spatial, musical/rhythmic, and bodily/kinesthetic.
The theory was developed in 1983 by Howard Gardner, who is now the Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard. It defines intelligence expansively, as the ability to create an effective product or offer a service that is valued in a culture; a set of skills that make it possible for a person to solve problems in life. It’s a broader definition than many curricula address, and some of the multiple intelligences regularly go unstimulated and underdeveloped in traditional schools. Continue reading Art Is Vital – James Hamblin – The Atlantic
Video: Pablo Picasso’s The Blue Room reveals hidden portrait of mystery man – Telegraph
Scientists and art experts have found a hidden painting beneath one of Pablo Picasso’s first masterpieces, “The Blue Room,” using advances in infrared imagery to reveal a bow-tied man with his face resting on his hand.
Curators and conservators revealed their findings for the first time to The Associated Press last week. Over the past five years, experts from The Phillips Collection, National Gallery of Art, Cornell University and Delaware’s Winterthur Museum have developed a clearer image of the mystery picture under the surface.
“It’s really one of those moments that really makes what you do special,” said Patricia Favero, the conservator at The Phillips Collection who pieced together the best infrared image yet of the man’s face. “The second reaction was, ‘well, who is it?’ We’re still working on answering that question.” Continue reading Video: Pablo Picasso’s The Blue Room reveals hidden portrait of mystery man – Telegraph
Portrait Sculptures, Figurative Sculpting Classes by Philippe Faraut
I recently discovered the work of French sculptor, Philippe Faraut.
He is, without question, a master at his craft. He sculpts human emotion.
Curated from philippefaraut.com
This Pen Can Draw Every Single Color In The World – Huff Post #Tech
By Kate Bratskeir
Imagine, instead of being forced to resort to “Forest Green” for the grass in your next masterpiece, you could take Photoshop’s “eyedropper” tool to extract the color from a single, blade of grass and turn that color into ink.
Scribble is a new device that lets you do just that. The pen matches hues from the world around you and transfers them onto paper or a mobile device. For the latter, the tool works in conjunction with a stylus and a mobile app to sync the colors that attract you onto your phone or tablet. Pretty cool.
The pen is armed with a 16-bit RGB color sensor that stores the colors you tell it to. Hold the device up to your friend’s gorgeous blonde hair, a vibrant flower or the pizza crust on your plate and Scribble will analyze the color and reproduce it with ink from its refillable cartridges.
Continue reading This Pen Can Draw Every Single Color In The World – Huff Post #Tech
Twitter / saatchi_gallery: Check out this surreal infrared …
Check out this surreal infrared photographs taken by France-based photographer David Keochkerian pic.twitter.com/Ue8qTqf3hA
Curated from twitter.com