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If the shoe fits.
IF THE SHOE FITS The shoe has often defined our characters, personalities and created prestige. Through out many generations, it has evolved in both style and fashion. It has transcended many generations, inspiring artist, designers and musicians. The shoe has propped up models and fashion artist to cat-walk on stage...it has defined our civilization. Yet, the shoe was born out of necessity to protect the feet which has one of the most bones in the body (some 26) bones. At the exhibit is the chance to 'learn the art and sole of the shoe, to trace its footprints through history and culture. Part fantasy, part function, this exhibit looks at footwear from every angle, and features shoe design, sculpture, and invention, plus a bonus of shoe-painting designs and workshops .
By Andrew Benson Greene6 years ago in Geeks
Post your content online please!
I am like millions of you out there. I've hesitated at posting things for the longest time. There are a multitude of reasons why you shouldn't post your content online. To each their own but your art should be observed by the world. You really shouldn't hold yourself back with pessimistic thoughts or worry about the reasons why you're posting in the first place. Trust me I've been there and here are some of the reasons why I didn't post my stuff.
By Brian Anonymous6 years ago in Geeks
Looking through my sketchbook
So I was outside painting and drawing. I was trying to find inspiration for what I should draw so I drew Stewie. I was happy with my work but I thought it needed just a bit more. I just knew something was missing. So I went to show the drawing to my parents and my dad had the idea that I draw a new version of Stewie. And so I did. Stewie's name is now Li'l Drew, and as you can see has now has cornrows. I actually really like this one.
By Cici Johnson6 years ago in Geeks
The 5 Most Famous Paintings in the World
Art. Comes in many forms, but painting has claimed a lot of fame and recognition over the years. When someone says they're an artist, you typically envision them as a painter first. This is because painting as an art form has been around for more than 30,000 years, dating back to the first paintings that now reside in Grotte Chauvet, France.
By Faith Summer6 years ago in Geeks
Art: The Unrecognized Essential of 2020
Locked libraries and somber studios. Coffee shops gone quiet. These places, and the traditions within them, are the ghosts of the lives we led not long ago. To acknowledge as much is to recognize that there has been death, both literal and figurative, within our lives. Grief, amongst many other emotions, is as universal as it is individual, and as simple as it is complex. In a time as unprecedented as this, it is appropriate to grieve everything and anything, as this one emotion is responsible for so many others.
By Atlas Dance Collective6 years ago in Geeks
Morag Myerscough
One of the perks of working at an Arts University is being amongst the ambience of constant creative energy and activity. Within this environment you can’t help but feel infused by imaginative upliftment. The campus also homes a gallery which last month featured the visually vibrant work of Designer/Artist Morag Myerscough. The ‘We Make Belonging’ exhibition stood out to me in the gallery pamphlet like a brightly coloured blissful rainbow amongst the turbulent times of today. I was intrigued to learn more about this wonderful woman who merged pop-art esq patterns and poetic prose to brighten up towns and to bridge a sense of belonging amongst visitors from all walks of life. ‘Make happy those who are near and those who are far will come’. I searched the internet for a more in-depth bio and came across a 2018 Design Indaba talk in which Morag shared her story from her bohemian background and family’s circus roots to her current journey of transforming schools, offices, hospitals and concrete jungles into play pits of techno-colour joy.
By Jade Newman6 years ago in Geeks
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet, a French painter from 1832 to 1883, is best known for his connection to the impressionist painters and his rebellion against traditional salon painting techniques- although he always wanted his images shown in the salon, his ideas of what was proper for the salon to show was not usually agreed upon by the bourgeois patrons. His ideas bridged the gap between realism and impressionism as well as furthering modern ideals of social equality. He still wanted the construct of society to remain intact (for instance, the salon to still run) however he wanted to push society towards a new way of thinking about painting as a whole.
By Haley Bice6 years ago in Geeks
Art of the Spectacle
Ben Vautier is an artist not only associated with the artists of the Fluxus Movement in art history, but also those artists out of Nice, France in the 1960s. These artists out of Nice can be analyzed through the lens of The Society of the Spectacle (1967) --DeBord’s Marxist-based philosophy of economy. Ben Vautier’s Window in particular seems less resonant with the Fluxus ideals of many of his other works, especially when analyzed in the same terms as Arman’s accumulation pieces or Yves Klein’s blue monochrome paintings- and several other works of early 1960’s artists that will be mentioned throughout the essay. However, this analysis of Ben’s Window and ‘the spectacle’ changes when looking through the differences between his 1962 living sculpture in The Festival of Misfits exhibition and the 1993 exhibition of Ben’s Window at the Walker Art Center.
By Haley Bice6 years ago in Geeks
