mardi 15 janvier 2013

Book: The Tao of Pooh

The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

If you build your house where the Wind can blow it over, then let it go to pieces while you worry about how to spell Marmalade, what is it likely to happen?
 
One man's food is often another man's poison, and what is glamorous and exciting to some can be a dangerous trap to others
 
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches to-day to save nine tomorrow, Henry David Thoreau
 
 
Wise know their limitations, the foolish do not
 
People are easily led away from what's right for them
 
The bad can be the raw material for the good
 
Those who think that the rewarding things in life are somewhere beyond the rainbow
 
The goal doesn't mean so much once it is reached
 
The goal has to be right for us and it has to be beneficial in order to ensure a beneficial process
 

  
The mass of men lead lives quiet desperation
 
Music is the space between the notes, Claude Debussy
 
Many people are afraid of emptiness however it reminds them of loneliness
 
Enjoyment of the process is the secret that erases the myths of the Great Reward and Saving Time.
 
The clouds above us join and separate,
The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns.
Life is like that, so why not relax?
Who can stop us from celebrating?

jeudi 10 janvier 2013

Nicoletta Ceccoli

Beautiful Nightmares

Italian Artist.
Dreamlike Characters.
Doll painted figures.
Provoking details.
Deceptive Simplicity.
Haunting & Uplifting.
Layered Metaphor.
Frozen story with a deeper level of consideration.

'' Butterfly - Rabbit - Roses - Spider - Bug - Goose - Apple - Rain''
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

lundi 7 janvier 2013

Christopher Boffoli: Big Appetites

Big Appetites.

A Series of Crisp and Vividly Colored images.
Massive Food Items that allow the miniatures who stand in Boffoli's surreal scenes to come to life.
The tasks performed by the characters seems Herculean.
Cultural Fascination with tiny things.
American Enthusiasm for excess.
 Humorous.
''Brocoli Mower''    ''Strawberry Harvesters''... 



Greg Simkins: Wake of Dreams

Greg Simkins is an Artist based in California.

He is specialised in painting, drawing and graffiti.
His artistic movement is Pop Surrealism (Lowbrow).
This movement is very common in comics and paintings because it arouses a sense of Humor.

'' Waking Dreams...
... Inner Conversations & Subconscious Thoughts that have lain Dormant until their Appearance.''


dimanche 6 janvier 2013

Beatrix Potter: The Picture Letters

The Common Wild Ones are Far More Intelligent and Amusing than the Fancy Variety

Beatrix Potter's stories were written for children; not made to order. They are based on her day-to-day expériences as a single child. Simple, playful, Imaginative & lively Qualities.
Peter Rabbit
Peter Rabbit's name is based on Beatrix Potter pet rabbit she used to have as a child. He wears a blue jacket and shoes, and live in a rabbit hole that has human furnitures.
“This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers and his claws and his turned-up tail.”  -Peter Rabbit
'' Tom Kitten was very fat, and he had grown; several buttons burst off. His mother sewed them on again.'' - Tom Kitten
'' She tried to hide her eggs; but they were always found and carried off. Jemima Puddle-duck became quite desperate.'' -Jemina Puddle-Duck
Most famous:
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
- The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
- The Tale of Jemina Puddle-Duck
- The Tale of Tom Kitten

Exhibition at The Morgan Library, New York

samedi 5 janvier 2013

Picasso Black & White

Why the dominance of Black & White in his Canvas ?
 
Pablo Picasso claimed that color weakens, so he prefered to highlight the structural shapes and geometric forms in his paintings. He mostly used Cubism as a way to surrealism. Georges Braque and Picasso were the pioneers of this avant-garde art movement in the early 20th-Century. Cubism consists of broken objects reassembled in an abstracted form to represent the subject with different views.

Masterpieces :

The Milliner’s Workshop (1926)
The Charnel House (1944–45)
The Maids of Honor (Las Meninas, after Velázquez) (1957)
Female Nude with Guitar (1909)
Study for Sculpture of a Head [Marie-Thérèse](1932)
Man with Pipe (1923)
Woman Ironing (1904)
The Kitchen (1948)

Link: http://web.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/picasso/artworks (Listen to the meaning of his major art pieces)

Picasso's Blue Period:
The Blue Period of Picasso's life retrace his work with a sombre tone. These depressive paintings were influenced by the suicide of his friend Casagemas, but he was also going through a hard period in his life, living far from home in Barcelona and poorly.
 
Woman Ironing (1904)
 
Picasso's Rose Period:
Rose as in pink, Picasso's paintings started to lighten with paler tones. The subjects are also less depressing involving circus performers & clowns.


Family of Saltimbanque (1905)

Exhibition Guggenheim New York

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