Category: Art

The Image of “The Audacity Of Hope”

Barack Obama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright once referenced this 1885 painting as a symbol of 'the audacity to hope.' Tate, London/Art resource
Muse: Barack Obama

Entitled “Hope,” the canvas hanging inside London’s Guildhall Art Gallery as part of an exhibition by Victorian painter George Frederic Watts might appear unremarkable to some.

In drab browns and grays on a blue background, it depicts a young blindfolded woman strumming on the last unbroken string of a harp, her ear to the instrument.

Obama’s controversial former pastor Jeremiah Wright invoked the image as a symbol of inspiration during a sermon in Chicago 20 years ago.

The harpist, he preached, “is sitting there in rags … her clothes are tattered as though she had been a victim of Hiroshima… [yet] the woman had the audacity to hope.”

via A painting called ‘Hope’ wins fans as Barack Obama’s inspiration | csmonitor.com

How To Make Your Dollar Go Further

Hawaiian Won Park has been folding dollar bills into Oragami creations for 32 years and it pays off. Watch how he creates this Choi ( a large Goldfish). Click here to see more including his Star Wars Collection.

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Trash Bags + NYC Subway = Art

Video: Artist Joshua Allen Harris Turns Garbage Bags Into World’s Greatest Balloon Animals — Vulture — Entertainment & Culture Blog — New York Magazine

As a New York Subway wooshes through its tunnel it forces the air out of its way through ventilation grates in the sidewalk. Joshua has recycled that energy into kinetic art sculptures fastend out of garbage bags. Thanks to the ever-environmentalist Natalia Collier  of EPIC for this find.

Wall-painted Animation

The new short film by Blu an ambiguous animation painted on public walls. Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche) blublu.org/ blublu.org/sito/video/muto.htm music by Andrea Martignoni Thanks to Randy Marks for this find. To learn more go to http://www.blublu.org/

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Kaleidoscope Painter

Kaleidoscope Painter
Click on the link above to a new web page. Wait until the applet loads, then click the applet’s canvas. Move the mouse around the canvas while the mouse button is pressed (this is called “dragging” the mouse). Hint: drag slowly to create smoother drawing.
(Please note: applet requires a Java™ enabled browser.)

Clear Button… Clears the canvas.

Auto Button… Lets the program draw by itself.

DynaBrush Button… Causes brush size to change dynamically.

Brush Size Panel… Click the left-arrow to shrink brush.
Click the right-arrow to enlarge brush.

The Pen Is Mightier Than The Photo?

biroswns_600x800.jpgSimply brilliant – the incredible 10ft ‘photographs’ drawn with a ballpoint pen | the Daily Mail
The stunning pictures, measuring up to 10ft high, were drawn by a rising star of the art world, Juan Francisco Casas.

Casas, 31, can use up to four 14p ballpoint pens for a canvas and his works are already a sell-out at exhibitions.

Formerly a traditional painter, Juan began the drawings three years ago based on photographs of nights out with his friends. Here is a Gallery of his work