Day 21 of our 30 day creative challenge in January was a transcription of Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne. The transcription didn’t have to be a copy, but I was looking for artists who were seeing the underlying story, structure, movement, and composition – as well as artists who took the inspiration into their own new …
JR is a pseudonym of a French artist who flyposts* large black-and-white photographs on the street, often challenging advertising and media by the use of portraiture and community involvement. In 2010, JR won the TED Prize for 2011. He used the $100,000 award money to start the Inside Out Project. *Flyposting (sometimes known as wild posting or bill posting) …
We start in one week Starting January 1, 2021 I’m going to start posting the League’s daily series of 30 creative challenges. All artists everywhere are invited to join in the creativity challenge! The challenges will get posted here, to V. Notes. Last January, artists posted over 1,270 artworks with #30sal on Instagram. That was an …
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?
Happy Halloween!
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[image_with_animation image_url=”5980″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] ” load_in_animation=”none Happy day-after-your birthday Alex Walker!