MetaFilter posts tagged with Art and painting

Chiaroscuro

Artw — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:59:53 -0800

Michael Jackson heals the world

group art = chaos?

grumblebee — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:02:34 -0800

Come on Metafilter! Have something prettier than the reddit version.

Art from the heart (and nose, ear, etc.)

Kickstart70 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:41:38 -0800

CT Scan art - Radiologist Kai-hung Fung takes scans of our innards and makes them outwardly beautiful.

Book 'em, Mikey!

You Should See the Other Guy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:33:10 -0800

Mike Stilkey paints on books.

This art is no good, attack the radical!

dubold — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:45:42 -0800

Tom Sanford, a NY based artist, has created paintings depicting pop-culture icons before, but none have created a "regular trickle of hate mail/criticism" like this one. The 2005 painting - a depiction of the 2004 shooting of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott by ex-Marine Nathan Gale (previously) - is being auctioned in November. Some fans of Dimebag are a little worked up (see comments). Other interviews with Tom Sanford. Other art (quicktime movie) inspired by Dimebag Darrell (previously)

I know what I like.

JoanArkham — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:36:35 -0800

The Greatest Velvet Paintings of Science Fiction Icons Previously. Previously, previously.

Angels & Dirt

fire&wings — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:09:09 -0800

Sir Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) was a British painter. Spencer studied at the Slade in London, but he spent most of his life in the village of his birth, Cookham in Berkshire. Deeply religious and obsessed by resurrection, Spencer viewed Cookham as a "village in heaven" where everything was invested with mystical significance. Inspired by his idol Giotto, he took scenes from the Bible and restaged them in this tiny village by the Thames. Christ carries the cross through Spencer's front garden. Jesus heals in the attic of his house. Stanley and his brother watch from behind the shed as Christ is betrayed at the bottom of the garden. He is crucified on telegraph poles in the high street. In the village churchyard, the dead are rising. Spencer served in Macedonia during the First World War and, deeply affected by the experience, spent 9 years from 1923 onwards decorating the specially commissioned Sandham Memorial Chapel (inspired by Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel) with intricate murals documenting his experiences [photo gallery] [video tour.] He was officially commissioned as a war artist in the Second World War, and spent 7 years documenting the work at Lithgow's shipyard in Glasgow in a series of monumental canvasses. An exquisite draughtsman who was equally at home painting everyday subjects, for too long his eccentricities overshadowed his art. The reputation of this "divine fool of British art," who turned up for his knighthood with a carrier bag, sketched on toilet paper, and pushed his easel around Cookham in a pram, has in recent decades been radically reappraised. The frank and intimate approach seen in his domestic works, often exposing his turbulent personal life, influenced a generation of artists. His astonishing nudes of the 1930's (nsfw - he was almost prosecuted for obscenity over these in the 1950's) provided the template for the work of Lucian Freud. He created an invaluable record of two World Wars. "Half a century ago, Spencer seemed old-fashioned; today, art has caught up with him. It no longer seems outlandish to call him the most important British painter of the last century." 251 of his works. Critical writings on Spencer by Kenneth Pople. Peter Ackroyd on Spencer and the Thames (video.)

An' you get to tend the rabbits

cjorgensen — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:04:43 -0800

Rabbit Tarot by Nakisha Elsje VanderHoeven. She sells prints and original paintings from the Rabbit Tarot, along with other animal paintings and sculptures in her Etsy shop. She has a blog, can be followed on twitter, and many of her images are on flickr. Original paintings from the Rabbit Tarot will be on display at City Trees Gallery in Seattle in November along with quilts based on the Rabbit Tarot by Cindi Glinski of Cottontail Quilts.

Can you find Satan?

Rhaomi — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:29:52 -0800

"This may truly be the most important new painting of the twenty first century." The McNaughton Fine Art Company presents "One Nation Under God" [cache], an... interesting take on American history in a nifty zoom interface. Artist John McNaughton, who calls himself "the only living artist in the world today" to practice the Barbizon School of French Impressionism, has an extensive body of less opinionated work for you to admire. Interview. Character list.

Kentucky Artist

netbros — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:49:41 -0800

An artist who cannot spare the time to travel is using Google Street View to visit stunning locations around the world and capture them in paint. For the past year wannabe globe-trotter Bill Guffey, has spent hundreds of hours traveling thousands of virtual miles to visit places he feels he will never get to see in person. (via)

This Hieronymous Bosch is heavy.

yiftach — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:54:04 -0800

The Seven Deadly Sins by Dan Lydersen (on sale here [scroll down] with details and IDs of all references) is a modern homage to this work by Bosch. Bonus points if you identify the source of this post's title.

The art of Josh Keyes

tellurian — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:39:06 -0800

Animals isolated in dystopian tableaux.

Sometimes you have to dig for inspiration

maudlin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:37:04 -0800

Apes do it. Birds do it. Even educated elephants do it. But can a dog do it? Can a dog make art? Meet Tillamook Cheddar, an adorable Jack Russell Terrier who, after 19 solo shows, has made more than $100,000 in sales of paintings like these. (I believe she did not choose the titles.) Opinions on her work vary. SAW Gallery's exhibit on animal art. (Any Ottawagonians seeing this?) Previously. Previously. Me, I'm open to ape art (some are more skeptical), have reservations about elephants, think the bower birds are doing something awesome that is mostly hardwired and partly inexplicable, but the dog may as well be a wind-up paintbrush for the artist owner who has carefully set up the media in advance. Her selected output is often really attractive (see: windup paintbrush), but that no more makes her an artist than her ability to roll in smelly stuff and lick herself thoroughly.

Ourgothlaundry?

The Whelk — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:38:06 -0800

The Art & Life of Annie Truxell [via mefi projects]: Annie Truxell is a well known painter who has lived a long and fascinating life. Her adventures have been legendary, encompassing Greenwich Village in the 50s, London in the 60s and India in the 70s. She was friends with Franz Klein, Bill de Kooning, Truman Capote, Terry Southern, Mati Klarwein & many other wild & woolly people.

Francis Bacon

Joe Beese — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:40:57 -0800

What [Francis] Bacon produced are not paintings, at least not satisfying ones. They are little more than rectangles of canvas inscribed with noirish graffiti: angst for dummies. Bacon turned his clever little quotations from the masters, old or modern, into the twentieth century's most august visual claptrap. The views expressed do not necessarily represent those of Joe Beese or his subsidiaries. (previously)

Monumental men of action

klangklangston — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:16:47 -0800

Robert Burden's artwork (drawings, paintings) mainly concerns toys. His flags are neat too. I didn't figure out how to deep link.

Flotsam and Jetsam

homunculus — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:00:17 -0800

The portfolio of Christian rex Van Minnen. [Via]

Contemporary Painting from Tibet

homunculus — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:15:38 -0800

Tibetan Visions: Contemporary Painting from Tibet.

Dude, that spiky fish with the elephant trunk is, like, totally trippy.

flapjax at midnite — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:54:09 -0800

When you were 12 or 13, did you like to draw scary monsters? Well, so did Michelangelo. Be sure to check out the slideshow that accompanies the article.

Acrylic paintings by Nicole Duennebier

zoomorphic — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:04:38 -0800

The underwater dreams of Nicole Duennebier.

Verminology

cjorgensen — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:23:14 -0800

Verminology is a specimen garden of monsters and beasts of the most pestiferous and meddlesome sort, drawn by fingertip on iPhone, using Brushes app. New additions daily. Also be sure to check out Toadbriar for dolls, paintings, sculpture, and Faerie fun! From MeFi's own Lou Stuells. [via mefi projects].

The complete works of Peter Paul Rubens

mediareport — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:10:48 -0800

The complete works of Peter Paul Rubens. [warning: site contains lots of breasts] [via Plep]

Boris Indrikov

homunculus — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:55:43 -0800

Boris Indrikov Gallery. [Via musecrack]

Painting with your food.

CunningLinguist — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:21:16 -0800

Painting with Ketchup and Fries. Sketching Elvis with Cheetos. Artist Jason Baalman specializes in painting in unusual mediums and then posting the results to YouTube. Painting with ribs. Or just the BBQ sauce. Or chocolate syrup. Branching out from food, he also paints with mascara, lipstick and vegemite. He says he can teach you to draw too. His Mona Lisa in MS Paint has previously been posted here.

A better reality

Brandon Blatcher — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:29:13 -0800

The world should have more interestingly shaped creatures.