The most beautifully painted boob in the world belonged to the Benefit Supervisor sleeping on an armchair. In itself it might not conform to the current standards of boob beauty, if they even exist, but the way it is painted reminds me of a Turner sunset over water. There is the whole world in there that the phone of course completely fails to capture.
Lucian Freud, Acquavella Gallery, NY
Insect Challenge 68 people, and 9 teams collaborated for this blind drawing challenge. Each team member emailed me their drawings without their team mates seeing what they drew, and I assembled them. Unlike the two previous drawing challenges, this challenge was an invitation to see how many members a team could assemble. Bugs below. “2 Hills” Team [image_with_animation …
‘Let it be felt that the painter was there; consciously looking at the objects in their light already conceived from the beginning.’Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) Pierre Bonnard drew obsessively, on his daily walks in the country before breakfast, at breakfast, at lunch, at dinner, loafing around the house and garden, in cafés, in the streets, out of …
Once upon a time, Western figurative artworks didn’t express much movement. …and then someone bent their knee, shifted their weight, and the (boom-pow) interplay of weight and balance in Western art began. Over time, artists began to relax and exaggerate the pose, and we had figures like this: It wasn’t a straight line from standing …
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 …
The Most Beautifully Painted Boob
I happened upon this glorious Instagram post, in which Alex Kanevsky compliments a “beautifully painted boob.”
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