Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Picture Book Timeline
This is so cool. Watch a slideshow of picture book history starting with the year 1658! LINK (Picturing Books Website). Some of my favs!
Saw this on twitter. Thanks, John Lechner via fmhansen!
Sunday, March 13, 2011
A Puppet Man's Prints 1914-1916
Richard Teschner 1914-1916
A Journey Round My Skull Blog has now become 50 Watts Blog and that's where I found these incredible "Etchings of a Puppeteer". The top one looks like something I painted 6-7 years ago. The bottom one looks like the big-eyed characters being painted today, although these were created about 100 years ago. Richard Teschner made prints, illustrated books and worked in the puppet theater. Follow the LINK to see 6 more images.
Thanks, Internet Weekly!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Photography as Illustration
I love these photos from the late 1890s, early 1900s. Follow the link above for more images by this artist. Also, there are even more images and info here in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
(Thanks, Carin Berger!)
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Ukulele Cover Art by Norman Rockwell
The Saturday Evening Post cover from 1928 depicting the ukulele craze and fashions of the times. Painted by Norman Rockwell.
Thanks, Ted Dawson.
Monday, March 07, 2011
Frescoes of Pompeii
It's strange to feel a kinship with people who lived 2,000 years ago, but when I look at the frescoes of Pompeii, I feel very close to these painters. The photos above are from a 2008 exhibition of 2,000-year-old paintings called Pompeian Red, the National Museum of Rome. LINK
More than 100 paintings "shed light on the beliefs, home decorations, fashions, architecture, landscape, dining tables and people who lived in the ancient city of Rome and in Pompeii before its destruction by a volcanic eruption in AD79". I would add that they were not afraid to show the act of love on their walls as seen in the second to last image (above).
Right now, I am painting a picture with a volcano in it. It's for an art show opening March 26th in NYC. I'll actually be in two shows in NYC that week. I'll tell you more soon.
Sunday, March 06, 2011
Pocket Watches by Joseph Cornell
It gets me excited to see artwork that I have never seen before, such as these pocket watches from 1943-44 by Joseph Cornell, who is one of my favorite artists. Gorgeous! He loved cobalt blue!
There is a show at Schroeder, Romero & Shredder gallery that looks like a winner:
Joseph Cornell, Witold Gordon, Leon Kelly, Louis Marcoussis, Man Ray:
Les Devins (link)
The title means "Soothsayers".
On view at 531 W. 26th St. NYC until April 9.
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