Personal Cyber Botanica (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
His characters are nameless, yet each of us… dancer… boxer… prisoner… trumpeter… dreamer… runner…. juggler… invisible painter… Vita Precarie by Danijel Zezelj taken from Globalproject He was influenced a lot by painters and photographers such as Velasquez, Caravaggio, Cezanne, Vermeer, Diane Arbus and Robert Frank. Wordz by Octavio Paz,...
Infectious Greed (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Coxe on the power of zero ( ZeroHedge ) Vermeer forgeries and AD shocks ( Money Illusion ) The Fate of the Yeast People ( Kunstler ) Climate change catastrophe took just months ( Times )
Mid Atlantic Art News (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
New DC gallery Artists/Owners Natasha Mokina and Victor Pakhomkin envision their recently opened gallery, Winter Palace Studio , as "a sanctuary for realist art that combines classical craftsmanship and contemporary concepts." The gallery will exhibit paintings by Mokina and Pakhomkin and group shows by local and international artists who share the gallery's philosophy. It will also hold...
Movie City Indie (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
At a masterclass at the 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Alexandre Desplat talks about working with Terrence Malick on 2010's Tree of Life . "The most important thing for me, for music to express," the composer, who's worked on nine features in 2009, says, "is the invisible, to show what is not in the film, whether outside the frame, or in the depth of field." He...
The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Before I pushed the pause button on this blog yesterday—to share a Veterans Day sign of peace—you may remember I was fantasizing about hustling Johannes Vermeer, the Sphinx of Delft, into the small elevator at the back of the Metropolitan...
Fenland Tales (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Vermeer’s Milkmaid is a collection of short stories by Galician writer, Manuel Rivas. I had to wikipedia Galicia because, shamefacedly, I didn’t know where it was. To show off my new knowledge and enlighten those others who don’t know, it’s in Spain. North West Spain, to be exact, and according to the Great Encyclopaedia, an historical autonomous community. Although Rivas writes...
Strobist (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
With apologies to every art student and teacher, ever , today marks the second in an occasional series of chats with Old Masters. These guys were the original connoisseurs of light, and that is the framework under which we interview them -- as photographers. Turns out, they've been ripped of by photographers so many times at this point that they are actually cool with it. Which, by the way, is why...
Fan My Flame (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
is all about the figure and light. Taking inspiration from such masters as... Rembrandt... Bonnard... and Vermeer... I've done a number of figure studies concentrating on light and in particular the strong contrast between light and dark. They have included the following four self portraits, each drawn with the light coming from a different direction, and each one appearing to be of a different person,...
Gurney Journey (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Check out this abstract painting. It's full of energy and bravura. Brushstrokes are dancing with wild abandon. By contrast, look at this detail of a portrait. It's very closely observed and controlled, right down to the structures of bone and flesh around the eyes and even the tiny highlights in the eyes. Perhaps you've guess it already: they're passages from the same painting. It's a portrait by Valentin...
e c c o * e c o (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
photography by Erwin Olaf photography by Erwin Olaf It's Friday night, and frankly, I am whooped. A week with the laptop in the shop, a sick toddler, and way too much work to get to. I think that I will cleanse myself by seeing Vermeer at the Met or perhaps be absorbed by a wall ala the photography of Erwin Olaf . When in doubt, a little fantasy always melts the aches and pains. Oh, and Ariel Clay...
The Daily What (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Alice Wong: “ Bunny with a Pearl Earring ” Wong explains herself: This was a watercolor assignment where we had to find a famous painting, in this case a painting by Vermeer, known as “Girl with A Pearl Earring”, and substitute the person into an animal of our choice. I chose a bunny =^^=!!! Now this is art! Also: (\_(\ (=’ :’) (,(”)(”) [ via .] Earlier:...
Sparks In Electrical Jelly (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Isle of the Dead - Part Three Noir Vermeer Kyra is framed through a doorway pouring water from a jug into a bowl. It is a lit interior scene which resembles a Vermeer painting, particularly with Kyra’s head covering. The camera moves in to reveal Dr Drossos and Albrecht to either side of her, with Davis and the General accompanying them as if they are Seconds the metaphysical duel of ideas which...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
JAN VERMEER painted himself into next year's Derby picture with a surprise victory in the Criterium International at Saint-Cloud yesterday.
vermeer (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
• Leading Irish trainer issues warning to top jockey • Rider was banned from taking mounts at Naas Noel Meade, who retains Paul Carberry as the No1 rider at his powerful yard in County Meath, said yesterday that he will offer the jockey all the support he can as the rider tries to address alcohol-related problems that saw him fail a breath test before racing at Naas on Saturday. However,...
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