March 2010
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Haikuesday, March 30th, 2010
Radiating suns
and roads into big cities
are sketched the same way.
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Ten-Minute Art School Course
Action painting, sometimes called “gestural abstraction”, is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied. The resulting work often emphasizes the physical act of painting itself as an essential aspect of the finished work or concern of its artist.
The style was widespread from...
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Haikuesday, March 23rd, 2010
What if the secret
to a longer life is just
slower, deeper breaths?
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Ten-Minute Art School Course
Origins (via Smarthistory)
Humans make art. We do this for many reasons and with whatever technologies are available to us. Extremely old, non-representational ornamentation has been found across Africa. The oldest firmly-dated example is a collection of 82,000 year-old Nassarius snail shells found in Morocco that are pierced and covered with red ochre. Wear patterns suggest that they may have...
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Haikuesday, March 16th, 2010
Running through a field:
a little girl with a net,
chasing butterflies.
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Ten-Minute Art School Course
Switch Off Your Social Self- Switch On Your Creativity
by Cath Duncan at Lateral Action
We’ve all heard someone say things like, “Everyone is an artist” and “We’re all born naturally creative.” But most of us smile and nod (and think to ourselves, “Yeah, right!”) when we hear something like that, much in the way that we do when someone says something like, “Everyone is beautiful – fat, thin,...
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Exploring the Universe
with Elijah Wood
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Ten-Minute Art School Course
Communication Arts: 15 Awesome Posters About Design
by Steph at WebUrbanist
Naturally, those who have the most to say about design are designers themselves. They sleep, eat and breathe design day after day, wrapped up in its principles and developing their own strong opinions about what’s effective and what isn’t. So it’s no surprise that they would express their thoughts about design through...
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Art is an addiction. There’s a compulsive need to create and express your self....
– Jesse Cohen
What is art…
(via gallerygirl)
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Haikuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Digging through a box
of buttons, trying to find
one that’s made of wood…
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness...
– Og Mondino (via sphere-of-influence)
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