Building walls for our Big League Art Show. Opens 1st Thursday April 5th at Galvanize. #artandbeer #firstthursday #seattleartistleague A post shared by Seattle Artist League (@seattleartistleague) on Mar 28, 2018 at 11:23am PDT Our Instagram feed is back online! Please help us grow by clicking here to follow all our pretty pictures.
[image_with_animation image_url=”9309″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Carlos San Millan Doorzien – a Dutch word translated as “to see through.” In dutch art, doorzien referred to a painting that showed a view from one room into another, making the picture especially beautiful. Nicholas Maes, 1657 (Danish) Pieter de Hooch, 1660 (Dutch) …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7165″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Quilled brain by Sarah Yakawonis With some activities, I get a voice telling me it’s a waste of time. Usually this voice comes up loudly in the first 5 minutes of making art. Somehow, it doesn’t come up much when I watch tv. Unlike watching tv, I feel better when I …
I chose the clip above for Kerry James Marshall’s thoughts about how identifying as a Black artist is not a real choice, because only white artists are not burdened by the problems of race. Then the paintings of Black artists in the ‘Being an Artist” video (above) led me to seek out more of Marshall’s …
Headless Portraits
Victorians combined images from multiple negatives to create portraits known as “Headless Photographs.” (19th century) Not one cracked a smile.
If Victorians had Facebook, would they have posted this?
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