Archive for 'Art'
Tokyo’s Most Colorful Style Silhouettes
In the past, we’ve brought you on a visit to Tokyo’s famed Harajuku district, where Japan’s youth show off their flair and individuality by dressing in brilliantly colorful costumes and strutting their stuff for an always willing cameraman or two, but haven’t you wondered if perhaps there’s more to Japanese style than just girls who […]
Posted: February 27th, 2010 under Inspiration, Art, Culture.
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Lost Colors Of Almost Forgotten Artists
Though writing specifically about New York City Museums, Roberta Smith brings up a good point in the New York Times article Post-Minimal to the Max, that lots of good art, and for that matter good, color compositions, get overlooked and go unnoticed do to market pressures or social paradigms… So, here’s to constantly discovering new art […]
Posted: February 25th, 2010 under News, Art.
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Some Serious Coloring By Eugene Andolsek
For fifty years Eugene Andolsek had a secret life creating drawings with vibrant colors and linear complexity in his free time. Working at his kitchen table on graph paper with a compass and straight edge he laid out black lines and geometries filling in spaces with colored inks mixed with eye droppers to achieve dazzling […]
Posted: February 18th, 2010 under News, Inspiration, Art.
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The Colors of David Weidman
David Weidman was a prominent artist and designer in the 50’s & 60’s. He worked in advertising and for the animation studio Hannah-Barbara before opening up a framing store in Los Angeles to sell his beautiful print work. The book, The Whimsical Work of David Weidman And Also Some Serious Ones is a graphical and biographical […]
Posted: February 12th, 2010 under News, Art.
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Colors From Africa By Viviane Sassen
Africa Series by Amsterdam born and based photographer Viviane Sassen.
Posted: February 5th, 2010 under News, Inspiration, Art.
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Sculptural Color Palettes By Michael Johansson
Swedish artist Michael Johansson packs his color into neat sculptural objects. Sculptural Color Palettes Of Michael Johansson
Taking everyday objects and pulling them from their familiar meaning & use, Johansson repackages them with impressive Tetris-like skills into 3d sculptures that highlight the unrelating objects’ coincidental meanings of shape and color.
Artist Statement
I am fascinated walking around flea markets finding […]
Posted: January 29th, 2010 under News, Art.
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The Chromatic Palette of Mexica Sculptural Art
Researchers now know what colors were used by Mexica artists in the late 15th century & early 16th; colors that were included on such sculptures as the Sun Stone, Coyolxauhqui & Tlaltecuhtli.
“Studies of paint found in the pores of the stones confirmed that Mexica sculpture, as Greek and Roman, was polychrome. An interdisciplinary team coordinated by the National […]
Posted: January 27th, 2010 under News, Articles, Art, Culture.
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Colorway Series By Chad Kouri
As part of the work created for his recent show, Concoction, at Rottfugi Gallery, Chicago artist Chad Kouri took inspiration from the spectrum and put together this series of collages. To admire or acquire this series or other work from Concoction jump over to Rotofugi or contact the artist.
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Violet
Process
Links: Long Live Analog | Rotofugi Gallery | Concoction Process Photos
Posted: January 22nd, 2010 under News, Art, Products.
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Inspiration: Hornsea Pottery
Hornsea Pottery was founded in 1949. Located in the seaside town of Hornsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, the first factory housed founders and brothers Colin and Desmond Rawson. The factory’s earliest pieces included Character Jugs and posy vases with attached animal figures. The business continued to grow over the years, moving into […]
Posted: January 13th, 2010 under News, Inspiration, Vintage, Art, Products, Home.
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Best Album Palettes Of 2009
The best album palettes from 2009. Selected from the “best music” lists from: Emusic, Pitchfork, Amazon, Rolling Stone, and NME.
If you have a favorite album palette from 2009 that wasn’t necessarily some critic’s ‘best-of,’ post it in the comments.
Posted: January 11th, 2010 under News, Inspiration, Art, Trends.
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