Apr 30 2009
Archive for the 'Visual Arts' Category
Apr 29 2009
Optical Tricks of the Parthenon (2008)
This PBS Nova presentation takes the viewer into the intriguing idea that Greece’s Parthenon was built to minimize the brain’s tendency toward optical illusions and stand as a rock among pebbles.
Secrets of the Parthenon is a Providence Pictures production for Nova and WGBH Boston in association with Studio International and ARTE France. Funding for Nova is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Additional funding for Secrets of the Parthenon is provided by The Solow Art and Architecture Foundation.
Illusions are from the Outskirts
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Apr 24 2009
The New Museum Presents: Younger Than Jesus
What do 50 artists from 25 counties aged 33 and under have in common? They are mostly Younger than Jesus. The quirky idea is one of the most dynamic of its kind with each artist having a distinct mission apart from any stylistic theme. The exhibition is currently running through June 14.
New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
(212) 219-1222
Featured links:
(Younger Than Jesus homepage)
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(Younger Than Jesus blog)
(Whitehot Magazine feature)
Enjoy the show from the Outskirts!
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Apr 22 2009
Featured Video: A Photorealistic Painting Using Photoshop
Enjoy!
Photorealistic Painting in Photoshop - Emily Rose from daniel hammonds on Vimeo.
Paint from the Outskirts.
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Apr 21 2009
Mapping the Years with Bobby Neel Adams
Adams gets some “work” done.
Source: bobbyneeladams.com
North Carolina’s Bobby Neel Adam’s “agemaps” are a hairbrained hybrid of two photographs of one person’s young and aged likenesses meshed together to make art collage in the simplest terms in what he calls “photo-surgery.” Other collections include studies in family, couples and historic structures.
All rights to the photos are retained by Mr. Adams and related parties.
Collage from the Outskirts.
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Apr 20 2009
Funky Flicks Special Monday Edition: “A Tale of Rock” (2007)
Produced at the University of Hertfordshire by John Godwin and Stephen Payne, This computer animated digital short is a prehistoric prelude to the rock of ages! Enjoy “A Tale of Rock.”
Funky Flicks returns to Saturday next week.
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Apr 17 2009
Featured Video: Phil Hensen’s Burger Grease Art
Painter Phil Hensen unveils his Mona Greasa masterpiece. And you thought it couldn’t be done!
Uploaded by YouTube member FletcherMartinATL (More at BurgerGreaseArt.com).
All things are possible on the Outskirts!
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Apr 16 2009
Featured Painting: Rooster Zebra Contemplating Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Matt Forderer (2002)
Archived from December 1, 2008
Rooster Zebra Contemplating Grilled Cheese Sandwich
2002
4′ x 6′, Oil
In the Collection of
The Dobrins.
Denver, Colorado
The Outskirts is usually a place for the absurd, the unusual and the rebellious. Yet this painting entitled quite specifically Rooster Zebra Contemplating Grilled Cheese Sandwich just may win First Prize for overall Outskirtishness! It is simply what its name describes: some kind of rooster-zebra hybrid who has wandered out of an unknown jungle to ready himself for intellectual gymnastics over a sandwich made from what appears to be toasted, white bread and melted, yellow-American grilled cheese as the culinary question mark hovers precariously in space and time as the viewer awaits the rooster zebra’s decision as to whether he will eat the sandwich or let it drift curiously toward Planet X.
About the Artist
Born in San Antonio Texas October 7th, 1964 and raised along the west shore of Lake Erie in Toledo, Ohio and LaSalle, Michigan, Matt Forderer’s Paintings and Collage show his enthusiasm for nature and the organic. Compositions are filled with surrealistic imagery and symbolism.
Since moving to San Diego in 1986, he has found endless inspiration in the coastal region and desert. A self taught painter he cites as his growing list of influences many of the original surrealists including.Dali, Ernst, Magritte, Tanguy, Matta and Miro. Other influences include Rosenquist, Motherwell, Raucshenberg, Chuck Close, Alex Grey.
“I consider it a great gift that I have the ability to create surrealistic imagery and worlds never seen. I also consider it my duty to continue to explore this insight and bring as much of it as possible into fruition through my paintings, collage and future creative outlets. I owe a great debt the to the original surrealists who have pointed the way.In my work I am not trying to convey a specific message, rather I am just trying to establish balance, to set the viewer at ease and encourage new thinking and contemplation.” - From Forderer’s website
Rooster zebras run freely on the Outskirts!
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Apr 14 2009
Featured Link:Discover Magazine’s Showcase of Eco-friendly Toys
The magic of StumbleUpon has brought me to this display of toys to make their predecessors “green” with envy (If toys could talk, that is).
(See the toys).
Toys from the Outskirts are cool!
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Apr 13 2009
Featured Website: Photographer Marc Riboud
With a child’s whimsy, and an adult’s sobriety Marc Riboud has photographed the world and his native France for more than 50 years.
(See Riboud’s work).
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