Category Archives: Art/Craft

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A mere preliminary sketch of the productivity-gobbling art treasurhouse on offer at Great Art In Ugly Rooms – a Tumblr wherein great art is observed situated in ugly rooms.

Above: Self Portrait (1910) by William Orpen, American Gothic (1930) by Grant Wood, Portrait of The Artist’s Mother (1871) by James Abbott McNeill Whistler and one of Maurizio Cattelan’s taxidermied horses.

quipsologies

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From We Go To The Gallery, a limited edition artworkby Miriam Elia, who sez:

‘We Go to the Gallery’ is the first in a series of Dung Beetle Learning books designed to make scary subjects approachable for the under 5s. Printed in bold colours and written in a clear and cheerful tone, each book will drag families into the darker recesses of the collective unconscious, for their broader cultural benefit.

For just as the humble dung beetle gathers faeces from the forest floor in which to lay its eggs, the child also lays its ‘eggs of knowledge’ in the turd of its own mind.

All righty then.

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The Japanese art of Hitofude Ryuu (‘dragon with one stroke’) where the head of a dragon is created with various calligraphic flourishes and then its entire body is rendered with an oversized sumi brush in one masterful stroke, as demonstrated by masters of the art at  Kousyuuya studio in Nikko, Japan.

colossal/cineraria