Flash Fun Friuesday! In
The Painter, you have to shoot paint around an empty world in order to find your exit.
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posted by phunniemee
on Sep 13, 2011 -
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Ben Heine is a Belgian painter, illustrator, portraitist, caricaturist and photographer. His recent project,
Pencil vs. Camera, is an amalgam of illustration and photography, creating something similar in a single image showing two different actions. His
Flickr Photostream.
posted by netbros
on May 2, 2010 -
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Luigi Russolo was a
futurist painter,
experimental composer, and
instrument builder. In his 1913 manifesto "
The Art of Noises" he declaimed the death of traditional Western music and foresaw the dawning of a new music based on the grinding, screeching, moaning, crackling and buzzing of mechanical instruments. He and his assistant Ugo Piatti built the
Intonarumori to bring these new sounds -
"the palpitation of valves, the coming and going of pistons, the howl of mechanical saws, the jolting of a tram on its rails, the cracking of whips, the flapping of curtains and flags" - to life. Listen to them,
then and
now.
posted by fire&wings
on Oct 28, 2009 -
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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.
posted by The Whelk
on Jul 12, 2009 -
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Self Portrait of the painter Tamara de Lempicka; Born Maria Gorska 1898 in Poland. Lempicka lived a Life of
Deco and Decadence. Her portraits are
known for mixing “lighting by Caravaggio, tubism by Fernand Léger and lipstick by Chanel”. Her
Complete works are viewable as a
slideshow. Criticised as portraying the
dubious glamour and discipline of fascism; she became the most talked about Art Deco painter of her time;
her erotic portraits are testaments of the glittering
1920's. Here is a reassessment (
pdf). She died in 1980 and her ashes were scattered over the volcano Popocatepetl .
(wiki) (some links nsfw)
posted by adamvasco
on Apr 27, 2009 -
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They're dogs... and they're playing POKER!! They've been hailed as some of the most important works of American art ever painted, they've been featured on television from The Simpsons to ESPN commercials to Cheers, but how much do we really know about the works of
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge? For everyone that ever looked at the dogs playing poker and wanted to know more, here is the ultimate resource, including, of course, a
gallery.
Please excuse the cornea damagingly horrific site design.
posted by jonson
on Mar 13, 2003 -
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