Don't mess with art teachers.

Former art teacher sketches her own mugger - Telegraph
via arbroath

Art of Lora Fosberg

Lora Fosberg Painter And Printmaker
At Jack Fischer Gallery.

Of course they were.

PICTURES: Prehistoric European Cave Artists Were Female
"We don't know what the roles of artists were in Upper Paleolithic society [roughly 40,000 to 20,000 years ago] generally," he said. "But it's a step forward to be able to say that a strong majority of them were women."

Oldest Art in Americas?

Found on Mammoth Bone?

oooooooh pretty

via neatorama

Fluid Sculpture from Charlie Bucket on Vimeo.

Nose to the Art

The Prado Museum Masterpieces in Google Earth - Neatorama
I got lost in The Annunciation on super high rez and refused to zoom out until I could find something recognizable.

Circular painting time lapse

Circular Painting from Fly on the Wall on Vimeo.
via Wooster

pretties

Art From Code : Generative Graphics
Not just pretties, smarties too.
thanks: neatorama

Shadow Art

Neatorama/ Relativity
“Relativity” is an art project by Drzach & Suchy in which pictures are created using raised tabs. The art is revealed by the shadows of the tabs, and the picture changes depending on the direction of the light. This particular piece is called “Marilyn”.

Cool Jewels

Beelen, Paul jewelry design
I like the rings the best.
via Popgloss

NFB beta

Watch quality Canadian Documentary, Animation and Fiction
And I found Roadworthy's trailer here too, two birds-one link.
via metafilter

Pietre dure

Pietre dure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I've never heard of this before. Found a link on Pruned (via kottke).

Ledger Art

Plains Indian Ledger Art
"Beginning in the early 1860s, Plains Indian men adapted their representational style of painting to paper in the form of accountants ledger books. Traditional paints and bone and stick brushes used to paint on hide gave way to new implements such as colored pencils, crayon, and occasionally water color paints."
via metafilter

Clay Crush

Ayumi Horie | Ceramic Artist
I love love love this artists pottery. So charming and simple and lovely. Gush!

Teen art, the ultimate outsiders

High-School Artist Francisca Wistuba’s Creative Outlet -Vulture -New York Magazine
It is funny to have art contests though. Perhaps all art is part of some grand art contest. Wow that was deep-maybe I can make some art out of it.















By Francisca Wistuba

Museums Wrestle.

Museums wrestle with preserving art that's not made to last | csmonitor.com
via Twine
art/ andy goldsworthy

Creativity, an orderly thing.

How to Unleash Your Creativity: Scientific American
Fascinating. Lenghty but worth the read.

Big Big Art

Biggest Drawing in the World Created Using a GPS Briefcase & DHL | Laughing Squid
I didn't say it was good art but it is in fact big.

Those must be some major big eggs.

Wooster Collective

I've been thinking...

RE/Search
Boing Boing has linked to an interesting article about Maker culture. Perhaps overly optimistic but Vale talks about an underlying idea that I like. Long has it been true that Knowledge is Power. Being able to MAKE things gives you the kind of creative power that being a consumer does not. How one uses that Power defines the kind of person you are. It makes me think of the Martha Stewart phenomenon. She recognized the frustrated urge to create, the leftover DIY ideas that baby boomers inherited from their wartime parents. She told people how to make cookies that reminded them of their grandmothers and then gave directives on how to be "creative". She brought a renewed sense of (albeit skewed) value to the "handmade". But being an uber-consumer herself, and following the business model of greed, she sold it. Every last scrap. It is how you use your powers that defines you. The internet has been a force for good in the simple way that it has allowed intelligent, creative and generous people to share ideas and skills and allow the consumer to become a participant at every level of the process.
http://makerfaire.com/