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This 1943 painting by N.C. Wyeth (father of Andrew, and iconic illustrator of Treasure Island and other favorites) struck us at our recent outing to the Brandywine Museum of Art in Chadd’s Ford, Pa. The painting was commissioned by Bristol-Myers Squibb as an advertising window display for its products. It is unironically titled “Public Health and Morale.” Your mileage may vary…
Brandywine Museum of Art
Chadd’s Ford, Pennsylvania
This is part 2 of our conversation with artist, revolutionary and Young Lord, Carlito Rovira.
Click on the triangle or mp3 link above to listen to part 2, as broadcast yesterday on Arts Express, heard on WBAI FM NYC and Pacifica affiliates across the nation.
You can find part 1 here:
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Woodstock, New York
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Billie, Lester fats and Duke by artist Frederick J. Brown
The Spike Lee “Creative Sources” Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum
Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn, New York
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Boerum Street
Brooklyn, New York
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Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
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This showed up in our e-mailbox yesterday. I have no idea who it is from, but I guess it’s from a fan of our Arts Express Magazine and radio show. Thank you, whoever you are!
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Artist Robin Gibson
Mural on Fruitvale Avenue
Oakland, California
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The combination of a drizzly day, a long zoom across the marsh, some camera shake, and autumn reeds made this photo turn out like an Impressionistic painting.
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview And Other Conversations is a new collection of several of Kahlo’s magazine and newspaper interviews. As a bonus, art historian, critic and author Hayden Herrera provides within an excellent introduction to the life and work of the extraordinary Mexican artist and activist. I was happy to interview Hayden for Arts Express.
To listen, click on the triangle or mp3 link above and listen to the interview as broadcast today on WBAI FM radio and Pacifica stations across the country.
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Our friend Pearl Shifer created this lovely painting based on a photo I posted last week. Thanks, Pearl!
Manet’s painting at the bottom, and above, two views of the three-dimensional representation at the Garden For Sculpture. You can join me in an audio tour of the garden here.
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International “Last Supper” by Icy & Sot
Coney Island
Brooklyn, New York
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Our friend Pearl Shifer sent us the photo above of her wonderful painting inspired by a photo from this blog. Many thanks, Pearl!
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“Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea which at a Distance of 20 Meters is Transformed into the Portrait of Abraham Lincoln (Homage to Rothko),” 1976 by Salvador Dali.
Gala was Dali’s wife.
Compare the painting hanging on the wall at the Teatro-Museo Dalí to the image in the cellphone. Move the image close to you, then view it far away.
Figueres, Spain
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Artist: Eduardo Tercero
Garfield Place
Brooklyn, New York
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Woodstock, New York
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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I was introduced to the Turkish art technique of ebru by a colleague of mine, and some of the results I’ve seen are astonishing. Here is artist Garip Ay, using the paint on water technique to produce, well . . . see for yourself.
Thanks to YouTuber garip ay
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Stockade District
Kingston, New York
Find out more about this mural at http://www.americancatskills.com/p237826795/h76C03672#h76c03672
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East 21st Street
Brooklyn, New York
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Some extraordinary examples of street art illusion—the drawings are seemingly three dimensional, but in fact they are all done on a flat street surface with paint and chalk. The illusions depend on the perspective that the camera vantage point enforces, and the projective geometry of anamorphosis.
The realistic nature of the drawings allows passersby to interact with the drawings by posing with them, further reinforcing the three-dimensional illusion.
Thanks to YouTuber Mind Blowing
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Lee Lorenz in The New Yorker
