[image_with_animation image_url=”8351″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Antoni Tapies, a Catalan painter (1923-2012) added texture to modern abstraction with his mixed material canvasses. His works are defined by the word ‘materico.’ Tapies created new languages around simple objects and rough textures, “unlocking the poetry possible in a sock.” (Huffington Post)
Materico: Italian, adopted into english. Textured, scratched, downright vulgar impasto or mixed media such as sand, and the occasional sock.
Writing process Dr Martin Luther King Jr wrote about 450 speeches a year, and delivered somewhere around 2,000 speeches in his lifetime. His most famous works took form over countless iterations and inter-weaving with previous sermons and writings, as well as integrated pieces of feedback from his friends and advisors. Preparations On August 27, 1963, …
What happens when paper is treated as a raw material, instead of a flat white rectangle? The photograph to the left is one that’s been circulating on the internet lately. This is what happens when wasps are given colored construction paper. The paper is used as fibers and pulp, not ready for pencil lines to represent an …
Today is day 28 of our 30 day creative challenge. Fridays are comics day. For today’s comic challenge, you’ll illustrate a quote from a random idea generator. As usual, feel free to draw, paint, print, collage, assemblage, photograph, or build an igloo out of sugar cubes. Here is your quote: Post it Post your work …
Today is the 10th day of our 30 Day Challenge. We are 1/3 done! Sunday is observational drawing day, so I’m sharing an exercise from school, with a twist. Contour Lines “Contour” is the French word for outline, so contour lines are, quite simply, outlines. Contours describe the shape along the edges of a thing. …
Materico: unlocking the poetry possible in a sock
[image_with_animation image_url=”8351″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Antoni Tapies, a Catalan painter (1923-2012) added texture to modern abstraction with his mixed material canvasses. His works are defined by the word ‘materico.’ Tapies created new languages around simple objects and rough textures, “unlocking the poetry possible in a sock.” (Huffington Post)
Materico: Italian, adopted into english. Textured, scratched, downright vulgar impasto or mixed media such as sand, and the occasional sock.
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