Excerpts from a diary Frida Kahlo kept for the last ten years of her life, published 40 years after her death. Frida marked few dates, kept no appointments or notes on personal events. Most of the pages are filled instead with her own internal mythology, an internal theater.
Last week I talked about different methods of linear perspective. The challenge was to draw something using inverse perspective, in which objects that are farther away are drawn larger than what is up close, as seen in Byzantine, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian artworks. (My apologies for not including India’s use of multiple perspectives in the …
I’m currently reading the The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells. I wouldn’t wish the book or the subject on anyone, were it not imperative. In Seattle, the temperature typically varies from 37°F to 79°F, and right now we’re setting unpresidented records for heat, day after day, so it’s seeming especially imperative today. “In Seattle, where …
Exquisite Corpse is a collaborative, chance-based drawing game invented by the Surrealists in the mid 1920s. Traditionally, each participant draws an image on part of a sheet of paper, folds the paper to conceal their work, and passes it on to the next player for their contribution. This is a modern version, with the entries …
I’ve posted so many thoughts and artists since our visit from Carlos San Millan that you would be reasonable to think I was about finished. This may be difficult to believe, but I still have more to post. Way, way more to post. Many of you who were in the workshops said that you felt …
Frida Kahlo’s Diary
Excerpts from a diary Frida Kahlo kept for the last ten years of her life, published 40 years after her death. Frida marked few dates, kept no appointments or notes on personal events. Most of the pages are filled instead with her own internal mythology, an internal theater.
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