Posts tagged art
Ruined Polaroids might sound like a travesty, but William Miller made a series of intentionally ruined Polaroid prints that are actually really beautiful.
He says,
These are Polaroid pictures run through a partially broken SX-70 camera that I purchased from a yard sale.
The camera sometimes spills out 2 pictures at a time and the film often gets stuck in the gears, exposing and mangling the images in unpredictable ways.
Over time I’ve figured out how to control and accentuate aspects of the camera’s flaws but the images themselves are always a surprise. Each one is determined by the idiosyncrasies of the film and the camera.
Scottish sculptor Rob Mulholland creates these eerie mirrored sculptures out of Perspex, a kind of acrylic glass. The pieces create the uncanny effect of blending into their surroundings, at times appearing almost completely camouflaged and yet jumping out at you suddenly as your perspective shifts around them. Mulholland’s largest installation of six figures, Vestige, is currently installed at David Marshall Lodge in Scotland. The artist, via his website:
The essence of who we are as individuals in relationship to others and our given environment forms a strong aspect of my artistic practise. In Vestige I wanted to explore this relationship further by creating a group, a community within the protective elements of the woods, reflecting the past inhabitants of the space. […] The six male and female figures represent a vestige, a faint trace of the past people and communities that once occupied and lived in this space. The figures absorb their environment, reflecting in their surface the daily changes of life in the forest. They create a visual notion of non – space. A void as if they are at one moment part of our world and then as they fade into the forest they become an intangible outline.
Mulholland will be exhibiting at the 8th Godington House Sculpture exhibition in July of 2012, and you can see much more of his work on his website.
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John Singer Sargent. Lady Astor. 1909. Nancy Astor at Cliveden, Buckinghamshire.
John Singer Sargent 1856 – 1925 was the most successful portrait painter of his era. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.
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250 men and women were asked to draw what these emotions felt like in their bodies. These are the combined results
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Alphonse Mucha, Madonna of the Lilies, 1905.
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Why yes, that is Rick Santorum’s face made out of gay porn.
Sometimes, I have great hope for this world.
oh my.
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Anna May Wong in 1932
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten
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