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in title, tags, annotations or urlshanghaiwu's Overview - RedBubble - 1 views
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This guy is from my redbubble contacts and he seems quite a celebrity who keeps winning awards for his stonishing photographs though personally I prefer his digital works, which have these funky twists here and there that wows me all the time and are totally enjoyable for all the Japanese style fans.
- Ian
VirtueMart: Your free e-commerce solution. - Welcome... - 0 views
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Thinking about starting a webshop so you can sell your lovely pictures or magnifient paintings? I guess we are all in the same boat. My first choice would be Shopify (just look at how many ppl have saved it on del.icio.us!), but for a Trial/Free account, very very sadly, you take up to 5 oders, w/o SSL security or domain name, and that pushes me into looking for a perfect plan B. I found VirtueMart, haven't tried it but it looks very promising. Just look at Demos for some real actions; worried 'bout support already, I'm sure that a bunch of know-it-alls on Fourm would love to give you a hand.
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Abstract Art Descriptions - 0 views
GIMP - Windows installers - 0 views
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I'm upgrading my PC (by purchaing a NEW one - ouch!!) and my GIMP as well. The new, stable version for Windows is 2.4.2, with a prettier GUI. If English isn't your mother language and you prefer reading English like me, they have a solution for you on GIMP Talk. Go to C:\\Program Files\\GIMP-2.0\\lib\\locale and remove all the folders that do not start with en_ and then your GIMP will be ready to take off!
- Ian
Welcome | terminus1525.ca - 0 views
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A very well-designed Canadian arts community. It got studios, forums, blogs and lots of fantastic artwork. You can register as a member then build a portfolio page to publish your works.
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By the way, I don't think you actually have to be a Canadian to host your online studio there. Sound nice, huh?! : ]
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terminus1525 is a collaborative workspace on the web and on the street. It's brought to life by the ingenuity and imagination of young Canadian artists working in a wide range of disciplines. terminus1525.ca's free online studios let artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers (and everything in between) mingle, show their work, and find support, feedback, and inspiration from and ever-growing audience.
Nucleus | Art Gallery and Store - 0 views
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a place that wishes to spark innovation and awareness of the current artistic culture and movement. Our manifesto is to inspire new ideas, gain exposure, create relationships and obtain interesting products. The purpose of our conception is to support and promote upcoming artists to have an obvious dedication and quality to their craft.
When It Comes to Spam... - 30 views
There's nothing that wearies (or disgusts) me more than spam; unfortunately, one of the group members did something that totally breaks the rules and trust we all should have as part of the this ti...
Cognition and the visual arts - Google Books - 0 views
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In this first systematic study of the connection between the new cognitive psychology and its importance to art, Solso reflects on the long relationship between humankind and art, observing that "mind and art are one."
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This looks like a good book. I think it's important to have information like this on hand when one is dealing with bureaucratic bodies intent on narrowing or cutting art programs. Art making and education is tied in a very important way to our cognitive growth and development as human beings.
Animekandi - Art & Design Links - 0 views
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Everyone in this group should use stumble upon to find resources for this group. You can narrow your stumbles to only one subject. I have mine set only to graphic design. With stumble upon you install a button on your browser when you press the buttton it takes you to a random site related to your interest.
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Some sweet links here despite the name (AnimeKandi.org...) I went through a couple of the illustration links and was pleased. I didn't find any anime. This is worth exploring.
Charles Darwin's Art Attack - 0 views
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Jeremy McCarter reviews Denis Dutton's book "The Art Instinct". Interesting review of a naturalistic viewpoint on the origins of art.
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That's a great article - I'll be looking for that book. The only thing I question is the universal issue. Most people (IMHO) not in the arts seem to have a distrust of it - you know - this idea that it's all chicanery unless they are looking at a near duplicate of consensus reality. So - how does that work into the evolutionary idea - that sense of distrust and even disdain? Is there an anti-art gene?
Keys to drawing - Google Books - 0 views
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Dodson offers a complete system for developing drawing skills, basing his approach on 55 "keys" to drawing -- rules that don't need to be memorized, but realized. Dodson helps artists learn to trust their eyes and sharpen their observation skills through 48 practice exercises, reviews, and self-evaluations. Topics include learning to control proportion, scale, movement, depth, pattern and more!
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Merely to see, therefore, is not enough. It is necessary to have a fresh, vivid, physical contact with the object you draw through as many of the senses as possible — and especially through the sense of touch. Our understanding of what we see is based to a large extent on touch.
Fullmetal Alchemist - Official Website - 0 views
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The Official Website of Fullmetal Alchemist from FUNimation Productions. Read character descriptions, episode descriptions and download some wallpapers. Watch Fullmeatl Alchemist on CARTOON NETWORK�
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This is not appropriate for this group. Its almost as bad as posting a link to Starry Night by Van Gogh and asking if any one has seen this. This is on Cartoon Network. Yeah I know about it. What does it have to do with this group. I like animea but not here.
Celebrating Caravaggio: First Of The Bad-Boy Artists : NPR - 2 views
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Art scholar Stefania Macioce points out the modernity of these works. "If you think of the age, 16th century, there is same way to use the light like modern photography," she says. "It’s fantastic."Caravaggio's use of light and shadow mirrored the ups and downs of his turbulent life.It was the time of Galileo and Monteverdi, and the painter's life reads like a play by Shakespeare, another of his contemporaries.Born in Milan in 1571, Caravaggio arrived in Rome at the height of the Inquisition, when the church was all-powerful. But Rome also had a rich low-life of courtesans, gamblers and brawlers. Caravaggio led a double life, dividing his time between the gilded salons of the powerful cardinals who were his art patrons, and the back-alley demimonde of whorehouses and taverns — the inspiration for his paintings.Art historian Maurizio Calvesi says the artist rejected the uplifting Baroque style so dear to the church, and plunged biblical narratives into the gloom and desperation of contemporary reality. "Caravaggio is the opposite of the Baroque, which glorifies wealth, luxury and the triumphant Catholic Church," Calvesi says. "He was deeply revolutionary; he brought the human aspect of God back to earth." For models, Caravaggio used laborers, prostitutes and gypsies. The church was outraged. Painting after painting was rejected: a dead Virgin that looked like a bloated corpse, a jailer yanking Christ's hair, saints with dirty feet.Cardinal Federico Borromeo wrote in indignation, "Contaminated men must not deal with the sacred."The 19th century art critic John Ruskin called him the "ruffian Caravaggio," and described his work as ''horror and ugliness and filthiness of sin.''Rome's Sant'Agostino Church is filled with treasures — a Raphael, a Sansovino and a Bernini — but visitors all flock first to a corner chapel on the left and drop coins in a machine to illuminate the canvas. Madonna of Loreto shows a barefoot Virgin holding the baby Jesus. She stands in a doorway in the evening shadow, one leg saucily crossed over the other. Visitor Cinzia Margotti is enthralled. "The church couldn't possibly like a Madonna like this one," Margotti says. "Just look at her. She's real and beautiful but too free for the 16th century church."Many of Caravaggio's works were filled with grief, suffering and violence — images in contrast with the church's predilection for rosy cherubs and angels in the heavens. Francine Prose, author of Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles, says his paintings reflected the violence of the times. "Beheadings were a daily fact of life in Rome," she says. "So if you look at Judith and Holofernes or the Beheading of John the Baptist, which is in Malta, they are paintings of executions. His crucifixions, the deaths of saints are executions, so he lived in a very violent time."Under papal orders, heretics were burned at the stake. Caravaggio may have even witnessed the execution of the philosopher and theologian Giordano Bruno in Campo dei Fiori in 1600.Caravaggio also led a violent life. He left no letters, so all that is known about him comes through judicial records of his many scuffles with the law. Sentenced to death in 1606 for murdering a man, he fled Rome.The next four years were spent in flight: to Naples, to Malta, to Sicily and back to Naples. In Malta, he got in trouble again. He was arrested but managed to escape by scaling the fortress-prison walls. His works got darker and more dramatic — he believed papal hit men were on his heels. He painted David with the Head of Goliath, portraying a delicate young man holding a severed head that was Caravaggio's own self-portrait, a tormented mask of agony and horror.Suddenly, he got long-hoped-for news: He was pardoned, and he headed back to Rome.As one of his biographers wrote, "Bad luck did not abandon him."On a hot July day in 1610, a semiconscious Caravaggio was found lying on a beach along the Tuscan coast.It remains a mystery whether he had come down with malaria or some other illness, or whether he had been wounded in a duel. Two days later in the local hospital, the greatest artist of his time ended his all-too-brief career. After his death, Caravaggio was forgotten for 300 years. It wasn't until the 20th century that the visionary genius was rediscovered.
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This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of the Italian artist Caravaggio, believed by many art lovers to be the greatest painter of all time. Rome, the city where he was both hailed and rejected, is hosting a major exhibition of masterpieces from all over the world showcasing the first of the bad-boy artists.\n\nExhibition visitors are plunged into near-total darkness - only the canvases are lighted: Lute Player, Cardsharps, Judith and Holofernes, the Conversion of Saul and many more.\n\nClaudia Palmira Acunto is admiring a painting of a young Bacchus, the god of wine. "I'm just marveling at the sensuality of the skin," she says, "and the contrast of textures from the fruit to the wine to the fabric; it's chiaroscuro."\n\nCaravaggio invented this groundbreaking technique of light and darkness, with a single, powerful ray of light coming from outside the frame. In his time, the norm in painting was a vague and diffuse light. Caravaggio's contrast of shadow and light produced a totally new intensity and stark realism.
Fantasy World of Dale Chihuly Glass Collection Design - 1 views
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