Posts tagged beautiful
Who knew Bigfoot liked to vacation in Maine? Check out the newly illustrated travel poster for the fun museum in Portland Maine.
These calendar illustrations created int he 1800’s by Louis Crucius for The Antikamnia Chemical Company have always made me smile. They’re wonderfully macabre and being perfectly humorous at the same time.
This is a visually stunning bit of animation! I love the motion graphics and the fun little “in” references to several Hitchcock movies presented in a cooking show format.
Watch the full credits too, they’re quite artistic.
In the middle of Amish country is a small town called Tiny World. It’s so small, in fact, that it fits into a backyard in Shippensburg, PA. Each of the buildings tower to the death–defying height of a toddler. It started off as a home for cats and has grown into a quaint metropolis.
These labels Kurtis Beavers is working on for Cutters Brewing Co. are fantastic! I need a six pack case of this beer STAT!
I love these posters by Kelly Malissa Thorn, especially the little stamp in the bottom left hand corner. Stunning.
I love this project and just sent away for my sketchbook the other day. The Art House Co-Op did this last year and I was upset I didn’t get a chance to participate so I jumped at the chance to enter for 2012. Check out the video to get an idea of the journey the sketchbooks get to go on, and the beautiful sketchbooks themselves.
As described on their website:
It’s like a concert tour, but with sketchbooks.
Thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they make their way on tour across the world.
If you want to participate you should sign up soon because your sketchbook has to be postmarked January 31st, 2012 to make it on tour.
I love the borderline OCD work of Laurie Lipton. Most of it is just outright creepy, but the kind of creepy that draws you in. Friendly things are a little less inviting and terrifying things make you want to stay a little bit longer.
Every art school student is sure to have seen this video at least once in an art history class or painting class. It’s as important to understanding Pollock’s work as Clement Greenberg was. One thing I didn’t remember from seeing this in school, the music in the beginning. I thought I was watching A Texas Chainsaw Massacre for a minute there.
In the summer of 1950, Hans Namuth approached Jackson Pollock and asked the abstract expressionist painter if he could photograph him in his studio, working with his “drip” technique of painting. When Namuth arrived, he found:
A dripping wet canvas covered the entire floor. Blinding shafts of sunlight hit the wet canvas, making its surface hard to see. There was complete silence…. Pollock looked at the painting. Then unexpectedly, he picked up can and paintbrush and started to move around the canvas. It was as if he suddenly realized the painting was not finished. His movements, slow at first, gradually became faster and more dancelike as he flung black, white and rust-colored paint onto the canvas.
The images from this shoot “helped transform Pollock from a talented, cranky loner into the first media-driven superstar of American contemporary art, the jeans-clad, chain-smoking poster boy of abstract expressionism,” one critic later wrote in The Washington Post. But Namuth wasn’t satisfied that he had really captured the essence of Pollock’s work. He wanted to capture Pollock in motion and color, to focus on the painter and painting alike.
Above, you can watch the result of Namuth’s second effort. The ten-minute film, simply called Jackson Pollock 51 (the 51 being short for 1951), lets you see Pollock painting from a unique angle — through glass. The film achieved Namuth’s aesthetic goals, but it came at a price. Apparently the filming taxed Pollock emotionally, and by the evening, the painter decided to pour himself some bourbon, his first drink in two years. A blowout argument followed; Pollock never stopped drinking again; and it was downhill from there…
(via Jackson Pollock: Lights, Camera, Paint! (1951) | Open Culture)
