Post Roundup – the Book of Faces Edition II
This week’s topics: Women in Street Art, Colour Use in Marketing, Vintage Cookbook Illustrations, the Psychology of Over-Exposure to Art, a New Show by Jenny Holzer, and Scientific Illustration of Ugly Extinct Creatures as Body Art. Whew! It’s not every…
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Hamlet – metameat reduction
Yesterday on Twitter there was a meme flying around, #sixwords. Some people were being poetic with it, some humorous, some exclamatory… I decided to use #sixwords to describe new art forms. For example: dance interpretation of international tax codes sketching…
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Barbara Kruger – Subverting Subversion
Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. Her work takes the visual language of mass commercial communication and flips it. Basically, she appropriates commercial photographic imagery and overlays it with philosophical slogans that run counter to the imagery. This inversion…
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Street Ghosts by Paolo Cirio – Street Art made by Google Street View
I received an email a few days ago from Paolo Cirio about his project, Street Ghosts. It’s a pretty nifty idea – he describes it thusly: “Life-sized pictures of people found on Google’s Street View are printed and posted without…
The Allure of Enigma
Long before the days of Pinterest and Tumblr I would save images that I found compelling to my computer so that I could peruse them at my leisure. The folder now contains a few hundred images. I use them as a…
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