Art Evolution to 3-D Painting

 

Undated photo of a section of a rare Japanese painting by Furuyama Moromasa, made available by City of Edinburgh Council, Scotland Friday Jan. 4, 2013, depicting early 18th century street life which has been discovered in a library's special collections. The 44ft scroll was donated in the 1940s but its significance has only just been realised by experts in Edinburgh. It is believed to be the largest of his works anywhere in the world. Two other examples of his work are held by the British Museum. The scroll depicts a street scene from Edo, which became Tokyo, showing shops, theatres and domestic life. A funding application has been made to the Japan-based Sumitomo Foundation for conservation funding, with a result expected in March. AP Photo/ City of Edinburgh Council.

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Undated photo of a section of a rare Japanese painting by Furuyama Moromasa, made available by City of Edinburgh Council, Scotland Friday Jan. 4, 2013, depicting early 18th century street life which has been discovered in a library's special collections. The 44ft scroll was donated in the 1940s but its significance has only just been realised by experts in Edinburgh. It is believed to be the largest of his works anywhere in the world. Two other examples of his work are held by the British Museum. The scroll depicts a street scene from Edo, which became Tokyo, showing shops, theatres and domestic life. A funding application has been made to the Japan-based Sumitomo Foundation for conservation funding, with a result expected in March. AP Photo/ City of Edinburgh Council.

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Copyright © artdaily.or   Ken Gidge is a politician — a Democratic New Hampshire state representative who recently won reelection to his third term. And he’s an inventor, of refrigeration energy-saving devices and a plastic Frisbee-style toy called the Wing Wheel. 

Ken Gidge is a politician — a Democratic New Hampshire state representative who recently won reelection to his third term. And he’s an inventor, of refrigeration energy-saving devices and a plastic Frisbee-style toy called the Wing Wheel.

As a young man, he was a Santa Claus at a department store in Boston, and he spent 248 days atop a 30-foot-high perch at a car dealership in Peabody, Mass., going for the world record in flagpole sitting. He once self-published a book on what he believed then were his psychic abilities, and he’s an avid writer of poetry. He says he was a jazz club manager who gave Muddy Waters a gig at the start of the late bluesman’s US comeback tour in the 1970s.

Gidge has the bearing of a professor, and the look, too — wire-framed glasses, a well-groomed mustache, sport coats over golf shirts, and a constant smile. And it makes sense. A conversation with Gidge is almost always a lesson of some sort, with him playing the role of a happy teacher, thrilled to talk history, culture, and the joy of life itself, as well as share anecdotes about his own adventures.

The latest display of Gidge’s eclectic talents comes “hidden” in his self-description as “just a guy who paints.”

Gidge’s paintings are bright, almost bawdy collections of heavily textured swirls and whirls. Some show brightly colored, featureless people. All, when viewed through 3-D polarized glasses, seem to come to life and leap off the canvas.

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Undated photo of a section of a rare Japanese painting by Furuyama Moromasa, made available by City of Edinburgh Council, Scotland Friday Jan. 4, 2013, depicting early 18th century street life which has been discovered in a library's special collections. The 44ft scroll was donated in the 1940s but its significance has only just been realised by experts in Edinburgh. It is believed to be the largest of his works anywhere in the world. Two other examples of his work are held by the British Museum. The scroll depicts a street scene from Edo, which became Tokyo, showing shops, theatres and domestic life. A funding application has been made to the Japan-based Sumitomo Foundation for conservation funding, with a result expected in March. AP Photo/ City of Edinburgh Council.

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Teens Reinvent Glass Art

When Janai Dallas was younger, she spent Sunday mornings staring at the stained glass windows of New Covenant Church in Germantown. Babies. Angels. Jesus. She never thought about who made the windows or how they stuck those little panes of glass together. The images were just a colorful distraction from a boring sermon.

That was before Dallas, 19, began spending Wednesday afternoons in the basement of a different church, learning to select, score, cut, grind, and solder glass into her own stained glass panels. Before she created windows that now hang in schools in South Africa and New Orleans. Before the Stained Glass Project: Windows That Open Doors changed the way she sees art, the world, and herself.

The project, now in its seventh year, started small: a handful of students from Germantown High School making pendants and picture frames from scraps of donated glass. But its founders - glass sculptor Paula Mandel and digital artist Joan Myerson Shrager - had a bigger vision: What if windows created by teenagers in a rough part of Germantown could become sources of beauty and connection for kids in rough places elsewhere in the world?

The first set of 18 windows went to a primary school in Durban, South Africa, whose 1,000 students include some who live in shacks without running water or electricity. The second batch went to an elementary school in New Orleans resurrected after Hurricane Katrina.

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Never Before Seen "Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs" Drawing

Walt Disney artwork created in 1937, with original pencil drawings from Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, have gone on public display for the first time.


    A copy of a never before seen original artwork pencil drawing from Walt Disney's 'Snow White 
    and the Seven Dwarfs' movie from 1937 at the Tatton Park antiques and fine art fair at Tatton
    Park in Knutsford, Cheshire. Photo: PA

The artwork formed the basis of Disney's animated movie, which is ranked among the greatest films of all time.

The display at Tatton Park Antiques and Fine Art Fair, in Cheshire, also includes an original 1933 drawing of Disney's most famous creation, Mickey Mouse.

The collection belonged to a former Disney storyboard artist, who worked at the company in the 1930s and 1940s.

The sale is being handled by David Smith of Derbyshire-based Neptune Fine Art.

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Creation of World's Biggest Light Painting

Last year, Michael Bosanko created what is reportedly the world's largest ever light painting. 



Having commandeered a 35,000-square-foot aircraft hangar in Coventry, UK, Bosanko set to creating a continuously drawn, Hallowe'en-themed light painting. To achieve the result, pictured below, the shutter of his camera was open for a staggering 60 minutes. With so much room for error, the result is amazing—and it's fascinating to hear him talk about how he achieved it.  

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"Breaking Bad" Fan Expresses Admiration Through Lifelike Drawings

Rick Fortson lives a long way from Hollywood, but he still gets the opportunity to hobnob with some of his favorite TV stars. Fortson has spent hours crafting lifelike pencil drawings of his favorite celebrities, including a number of stars of AMC’s Breaking Bad.

“I’m not looking for fame or money,” Fortson tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Since Breaking Bad is one of my all-time favorite shows, it’s fun to pay tribute.”

The stirring drawings have become fan letters of sorts, with Fortson contacting actors through Twitter as well as their representatives to get the artwork into their hands.

“I drew my first Breaking Bad right after season three or so,” says Fortson, who works as a real estate agent in the Chicago area. Not long after, he ran into Aaron Paul at a small concert Fortson’s son was playing at the Hard Rock Cafe.

“My daughter said, ‘Hey, there’s that Jesse Pinkman guy sitting over there.' ” Fortson introduced himself and got to talk to Paul for a bit. Fortson eventually got Paul his portrait through the mail and was rewarded with a picture of the actor holding it up. He's kept in touch and was contacted by Paul's sister before Christmas with a request for a portrait to give to their parents, which he obliged.

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Edward Hopper's Painting, A Wild Imagination

Taking a passing look at Edward Hopper’s Seven A.M. (featured on the November 2012 issue of On-the-Town), you get a sense of a sweet, early-morning snapshot of a country store in a small town. Study it for awhile and you get an uncanny feeling that there is something that doesn’t quite fit. Is it because there is no hint of roads or other buildings? Or is it the foreboding woods in the background?

“It seems straightforward when you look at it,” said Carter Foster, the Steven and Ann Ames curator of drawing for the Whitney Museum of American Art, who will be coming to the Grand Rapids Art Museum this month to talk about Hopper and the current “Real/Surreal” exhibit at the GRAM. “There is nothing sinister about the building; however, the building doesn’t seem to fit against the woods that look forbidding and strange.”

While Hopper, known for his American themes, was a great observer and took in everything he saw, his work wouldn’t fall into the definition of realism as the painter often didn’t have a hesitation of omitting or altering details.

“Hopper wanted to capture the feeling and atmosphere, and he felt comfortable abandoning the logical to paint what he wanted,” Foster said. Going back to Seven A.M, “if you look at the building, we really shouldn’t be able to see in the windows because of the way the sun should be reflecting off the glass. It is as if there is no glass there.”

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"Painting Canada" Exhibit Open Until Jan 6

 

We lock away our art. This is an obvious necessity. Paintings need to be protected and conserved, which is why paintings are stored in institutions and on gallery walls.

With the exception of what we might have in our homes or places of work, paintings don’t drift into our day-to-day lives the way music or words can.

There are reproductions of paintings, of course, but paintings resist being photographed with the same energy by which an artist applies brush strokes.

Looking at a painting is a very different experience from looking at a picture of a painting; and looking at a painting is not an experience that happens with the ease of reading on the subway or listening to music while sitting in traffic.

Even movies — once locked away in palatial splendour — have escaped to the everywhere of laptops and iPads. But, for the most part, paintings haven’t lowered the drawbridge very much.

This is particularly true of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ont. There, on Jan. 6, “Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven” ends an acclaimed international run that began at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London in the autumn of 2011.

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