Art.In.General

A link to articles and resources mentioned in David Berman's book, Do Good Design.

A description of Albers book of prints from 1972. If you move your mouse over the upper left of the main image - you'll get the controls for a slideshow that shows some of the images from the book.

Drawings by Austrian artist Alfred Kubin - early 1900s.

US Army Medical Archive photos. Free.

Kirlian photography (discovered in 1939 by Semyon Kirlian) captures the "aura" surrounding objects that have been subjected to a strong electric pulse and, like the sensational possibilities of such photography (purported to be capturing the soul or astral body of the object)

Robert Rauschenberg discussing ideas and motivation behind his piece "Erased De Kooning"

This guy is awesome play around in here. His line quality is perfect.

Great designer

The king is here. Check out what he did to the wall on the Gaza strip.

Drawings, prints, literature - it's all here. Very difficult to categorize, but there is a lot of stuff here. The blog is no longer active but is still online for the moment. If this is your kind of stuff, download the whole site and archive it somewhere. Most of the reproductions are hi-res.

The commercial portfolio of Nigel Evan Dennis; Account Strategy: Erik Attkisson

Extensive, outstanding and comprehensive resource for William Blake's work. Indexed and highly searchable.

This is the sort of website that I would love to visit (and study) religiously.

Photography this takes you to Nick Brandt's gallery if you look around in here there are other photographers galleries.

The artist was born in Bremen Germany on December 24, 1952. Freelance artist since 1980. Several artshows of his work in and outside his homecountry. Siegfried Zademack's surrealistic visionary paintings make recipients and reviewers wonder. The arrangement of his pictorial thoughts immensely exceeds a realistic reproduction. His pictures allow us to slip in metaphysical dimensions, between humorous irony and the unfathomable deepness of our souls. The semantic sources of this art are equally past and present. The quotation from art history stands alongside the Coca-Cola bottle. His true teachers were the masters of the earl and late Italien Renaissance up to the Mannerists. The syntax of his work is completely determined by that of the ciassical masters. What is astonishing is that, in adoptingit for his own pictorial inventions, he employs such perfect techniquie - though this is indispensable, in view his objectives. His figural inventions are clearly sculptured, but his iconology presumes considerable knowledge of art history and politic. In some of his pictorial quotes, we detect the difference to the Surrealist approach: it is the historical angle, which was yet possible and this is the present-day aspect - in manneristic periods. Descartes had seen this without making an issue of it: mundus est fabula, the world is a grand fable, a never-ending story in which we are forever entangled. lf we live from, stories, there are no sharp borderlihes between periods, for history is then the present, and anything we do now is already the future. This is the link between Boltraffio's Madonna and the American Way of Life, which makes no distinction betweeh the classics and Coca Cola.

Jeff Soto Painter

More cool stuff. Illustrator. This guy is insane with hand skills. It says on some of the pieces he uses a gel pen? Really nice typography here as well.