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Post-: Flooded McDonald's by SUPERFLEX
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Thursday, January 2, 2014. Flooded McDonald's by SUPERFLEX. Film still from Flooded McDonald's. By SUPERFLEX. [Image description: color photo taken near eye level of water, maybe waist-deep, of a flooded McDonald's, probably behind the counter, with fast food cups and debris floating everywhere and a tipped-over life-size plastic Ronald in the corner.]. Video is a clip from Flooded McDonald's. By Danish art group SUPERFLEX. Thursday, January 02, 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Characer A Week.
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Post-: December 2013
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Monday, December 30, 2013. Upright Citizens: the importance of necks, shoulders and spines in portraiture. This post has been edited for brevity]. Look at these weird babies! What do they have in common? Bramantino, Madonna and Child. The streamlined, simplified forms and soft shadows of Mary's eye sockets and nose, and the spherical shading of her jaw, create an Art Deco-like effect, but Christ's face isn't painted that way.]. Duccio di Buoninsegna (Italian, Sienese, 1255-1319). Madonna and Child. The B...
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Post-: A Round of Poetry-Slam Snaps for the CIA!
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Thursday, June 13, 2013. A Round of Poetry-Slam Snaps for the CIA! UK) about recent evidence of the CIA's heavy involvement in promoting American Abstract Expressionist art in the 1940s and 50s. What surprised me even more than the cultural promotion itself was that at one time the CIA was so full of art enthusiasts. The paint (or lithograph? Willem de Kooning on the cover of Newsweek. Painting. The painting itself looks messy and violent because of the slashing red brush strokes as well as cartoonis...
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Post-: May 2013
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Friday, May 24, 2013. This post has been edited for brevity]. From my Notable Charlestonians series, professional hellion Anne Bonny. Anne Bonny, by Ciana Pullen. Which includes the one and only contemporary portrait of of Bonny, likely idealized or imagined:. The portrait I drew above is purely imagined based off her description and how I imagine a habitually violent, unwashed pregnant woman living off hardtack biscuits and liquor might have looked. Prints of the drawing are for sale on my Etsy store.
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Post-: Upright Citizens: the importance of necks, shoulders & spines in portraiture
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Monday, December 30, 2013. Upright Citizens: the importance of necks, shoulders and spines in portraiture. This post has been edited for brevity]. Look at these weird babies! What do they have in common? Bramantino, Madonna and Child. The streamlined, simplified forms and soft shadows of Mary's eye sockets and nose, and the spherical shading of her jaw, create an Art Deco-like effect, but Christ's face isn't painted that way.]. Duccio di Buoninsegna (Italian, Sienese, 1255-1319). Madonna and Child. The B...
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Post-: June 2013
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Thursday, June 13, 2013. A Round of Poetry-Slam Snaps for the CIA! UK) about recent evidence of the CIA's heavy involvement in promoting American Abstract Expressionist art in the 1940s and 50s. What surprised me even more than the cultural promotion itself was that at one time the CIA was so full of art enthusiasts. The paint (or lithograph? Willem de Kooning on the cover of Newsweek. Painting. The painting itself looks messy and violent because of the slashing red brush strokes as well as cartoonis...
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Post-: Artist Is Shocked To Discover Postmodern Theory May Be Relevant To Real Life
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Saturday, March 23, 2013. Artist Is Shocked To Discover Postmodern Theory May Be Relevant To Real Life. I recommend Joshua Alston's thoughtful piece in The Feminist Wire, " Confessions Of A Black Morrissey Fan. I had some immediate thoughts about it but ultimately decided to leave Alston's comment section free of abstruse reflections from this particular long-winded White person. So I'm writing them here instead. 1 The effect on the artist,. 2 The effect on the viewer, and. For Alston, though, there is t...
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Sarah Romano Diehl: July 2013
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Sharing art and books. Sunday, July 7, 2013. Big Brother's in a Scooter Gang. Here is a new illustration. I am playing with different characters for this picture book idea I've had for a few years. (Project 30,789 or so down the line). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Big Brothers in a Scooter Gang. Books Around The Table. Art and Story blog of Suzanne Kaufman. This and that there. Ben Clanton's Squiggles and Scribbles. My vintage book collection (in blog form). A Character a Week.
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Sarah Romano Diehl: November 2013
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Sharing art and books. Thursday, November 14, 2013. A Children's Book App? I can unleash the news now that in the little old Apple App store/ iTunes store. You can find a children's book app called "My Day" which was conceived of by John Romano at Egads Press, co-written by he and I, and illustrated by me. Check out the publisher's website (Egad's Press) page for "My Day: http:/ www.egads.com.au/myday/. And in the iTunes/Apple store: https:/ itunes.apple.com/US/app/id734799973? Friday, November 1, 2013.
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Sarah Romano Diehl: The Art of Digestion
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Sharing art and books. Monday, August 4, 2014. The Art of Digestion. Here is a poster I made recently. I watched the documentary. The Phantom Tollbooth: Beyond Expectations". The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and illustrations by Jules Feiffer. I was inspired to make this sequence about the digestion of knowledge. The Art of Digestion. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. The Art of Digestion. Books Around The Table. Art and Story blog of Suzanne Kaufman. This and that there.