Tag Archives: art
Blood and Fire *Trigger Warning* by Arthur Kwon Lee
Like myself, Arthur Kwon Lee is a politically conservative visual artist. This brings about an estrangement from most other artists, unless we silence ourselves and hide our true beliefs. This is far easier for me than Kwon Lee. I personally … Continue reading
Posted in art, Uncategorized
Tagged art, Arthur kwon lee, blood and fire, graphic art, kwon lee
Leave a comment
Pushing Pixels 26? Little Red Corvette
New For 1963 & 1964 New for 1963 and 1964. Part of a larger project targeting the Corvette market. This is an original poster design that I made from old book photos (all half-tone screened, of course,) and internet scraps. … Continue reading
I Know it When I See It
“But to live outside the law, you must be honest.” Bob Dylan United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart struggled in 1964 to define pornography in the landmark case of Jacobellis v. Ohio. In his concurring opinion, Stewart wrote, essentially, … Continue reading
Posted in art, Photography, Photoshop, politically correct, Uncategorized
Tagged art, penthouse, photographers, Photography, playboy, pornography, Roversi
Leave a comment
Drywall and Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus
We’ve all seen photos of Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus. Sandro Botticelli, circa mid -480s. What we don’t see is scale. I was remarking to a former art instructor how very different Van Gogh’s paintings look like in person compared … Continue reading
Posted in art, Uncategorized
Tagged art, botticelli, paintings, perspective, scale, the birth of venus
Leave a comment
Painting With Sand After Bob Ross
Fascinating. This artist on Twitch is watching an old Bob Ross painting video and then attempting to recreate his image with colored sand. And she is wearing bunny ears. And she has a nice Russian accent. Twitch always puts on … Continue reading
Posted in art, Uncategorized
Tagged art, painting with sand, russian, sand, sand experiment
Leave a comment
What Even Sotheby’s Doesn’t Tell You About Van Gogh
What Even Sotheby’s Doesn’t Tell You About Van Gogh His paintings are three dimensional! Vividly so. His latter works especially reach out to you as he literally caked on paint onto the canvas. The flat looking photographs you’ve seen your … Continue reading
Posted in art, Uncategorized
Tagged art, artists, canvas, paintings, three dimensional, two dimensional, van gogh
Leave a comment
Spenser’s Ireland by Marianne Moore
Fantastic wordplay inspired in part by a National Geographic article? “[L]ike enchanted Earl Gerald who changed himself into a stag, to a great green-eyed cat of the mountain.” Much controversy and discussion surrounds this poem, as with much of modern poetry. Here’s one … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry, Uncategorized, Writing by others
Tagged art, marianne moore, modernism, Poetry, spenser's ireland
Leave a comment
Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright!
Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright! William Blake was a poet and an artist. He was one of the first in Britain (or anywhere else in Europe) to see a tiger in person when he saw one in London. As an artist … Continue reading
Posted in art, editing writing, Poetry, revising writing, Uncategorized
Tagged art, creation, illustrations, Poetry, the british museum, tiger, tyger, william blake
Leave a comment
Kitsch-man as Tourist by Ludwig Giesz. And the Rise of the Selfie.
What is kitsch? Everything in the last town I lived in which was Las Vegas. I know it when I see it. I’ll leave a better definition to dictionaries and the great book KITSCH: The World of Bad Taste by … Continue reading →