MetaFilter posts tagged with painting

Heads Above Water

wittgenstein — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:59:48 -0800

Laura Sanders paints realistic portraits of people swimming with their heads above the water. Her Resume. From this months issue of New American Painting.

The Ayahuasca Monologues

homunculus — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:24:14 -0800

Surrendering to the Spirit Vine. Artist Alex Grey (previously) describes his experience with "the champagne of ayahuascas."

Richard McMahan's Miniature Art Museum

mediareport — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:41:31 -0800

Richard McMahan's Mini Museum For the past 18 years, artist/art historian Richard McMahan has been making tiny replicas of the world's masterpieces, from ancient Egyptian tombs and Lascaux cave paintings to Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp. Charleston's Halsey Institute of Contemporary art has an online exhibit and 8-minute mini documentary. A short interview. (In case it's not obvious, just click on any pic in the gallery to bring it closer and click again to send it back.)

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Magnified

thomas j wise — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:12:51 -0800

Cranach Magnified, courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum, enables users to compare and analyze the "surprisingly minute features" of several paintings by the great Lucas Cranach the Elder. For much more Cranach, visit the extensive listing at Artcyclopedia, which includes, among other things, the woodcuts at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; several paintings at the Kunsthistorisches Museum; and more paintings at the National Gallery of Art.

Camille Rose Garcia

homunculus — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:30:41 -0800

Ambien Somnambulants. New works by Camille Rose Garcia. [Via] Last year Garcia had an exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art which the museum made a series of videos about. You can watch them on YouTube.

Ghostschool

nthdegx — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:55:40 -0800

Ghostschool is a collection of photographs taken of the sketchbook/scrapbook of designer Wil Freeborn (and a few other tumbled bits and pieces).

pretty pickings

madamjujujive — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:42:06 -0800

20 pretty painted guitars. (via Nag on the Lake) More painted guitars: Music Saves Lives - Gibson Guitar Project GZ Guitars Luna's Henna Guitars Prior thread on 50 painted Dean Guitars, a tribute to Dimebag Darrell

color is relative

nickyskye — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:58:24 -0800

Color Is Relative, pretty and interesting eye candy created by Gabriel Mott, is a website dedicated to showing luminosity achieved through simple color combinations. On the site, the image is interactive. By moving the mouse over a single swatch the background color of the page will change to the same color. Seeing Things: Color is Relative on Facebook. Gabe's blog, FunkyEnough."In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art."-Josef Albers Video that explains halation and how color is relative.

Home Pig

homunculus — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:55:33 -0800

The art of Joe Vaux. [Via Changethethought]