State of the Art Appreciation: 2016

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

A lot of art went into the Ark Encounter! Located in Williamstown, Kentucky near the Creation Museum.

Meet Doug, the lead artisan in charge of animals.

Meet Greg, who was part of creating an incredible diorama.

Learn about photogrammetry! The ark designers rented a 72-camera scanning rig to take 3D scans of live humans. Software stitched the photos together, artists refined the 3D models, printed them on a 3D printer, and painted the sculptures by hand. This cut the sculpting process down from 2-3 weeks per figure to 1-2 days.

Meet Answers in Genesis production designer, Jon.

Meet production designer, Allen. He used his creativity to help imagine what items Noah could have saved from the pre-flood world.

Monday, November 21, 2016

Famous Paintings by Norman Rockwell

Freedom from Want

Freedom of Speech

Happy Birthday Miss Jones

The Connoisseur

The Gossips

The Homecoming

The Problem We All Live With

The Runaway

Triple Self-Portrait

Saying Grace by Norman Rockwell

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

MODERN (Post-Impressionism) Starry Night Painted on Water

Friday, October 28, 2016

Colors

Windows

Stairs

Buildings

Entrance

Brick

Bike Racks

Leaves

Mexico

Street Shade

Origami

France

Art Installation

Interactive Art Display

Stairs

Cacti

Colorful

Monday, October 24, 2016

Inside Pantone Color Factory

Saturday, October 8, 2016

Gluten Free Famous Art

Someone thought it would be funny to create a gluten free museum of famous art. Some pieces are barely changed at all and others are drastically altered. Here are a few examples.

Mustard On White by Roy Lichtenstein

The Harvesters by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

American Gothic by Grant Wood

Monday, September 19, 2016

Google Doodle Contest

Ad for 2016 competition

The 2012 contest and winner

Google Doodles

A Google doodle being made

An elaborate Google doodle animation

How it was made

Olympics doodle

How it was made

Monday, May 16, 2016

Special Effects in Home Videos: Action Movie Kid

Optical Illusions

Anamorphic Chalk Art by David Zinn

Time-Lapse of a Drawing: Hyperrealism

3D Printing

Willard Wigan: Micro-Sculptor

Interview: Part 1

Interview: Part 2

Wigan's smallest sculpture.

How Wigan got started and how his creations ended up inside watches.

Unusual Buildings

$1 Million Foldable Apartment

The Design Process of an Architect

Dale Chihuly: Glass Artist

RENAISSANCE (Northern): The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Turning Children's Drawings into Stuffed Animals

Art with Kids

Aelita Andre

Media coverage of Aelita.

Fundraiser she did.

More footage from her younger years.

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

3Doodler

Modern vs. Contemporary Art

Fun Cartoon Style Bag

MODERN (Pop): About Roy Lichtenstein

Roy talking about art.

Fun Videos with Dali

1968 Ad with Dali

Salvador Dali as guest star on What's My Line? This was a popular 1950's game show in which a panel of blindfolded culture pundits would try to guess the contestant's line of work or identity by asking 10 yes-or-no questions. The contestant won if they failed to guess correctly. Over the show's 17-year run, nearly every iconic cultural standout of the era, from pop stars to presidents, appeared as a mystery guest. The episode with Dali is considered one of the top must-sees. Other famous episodes starred Alfred Hitchcock, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Lucille Ball. There's a weird ad at the beginning with a dancing woman. To skip it, start 15 seconds in.

Andy Warhol Interview

MODERN (Abstract Expressionism): Art by Jasper Johns

MODERN (Abstract Expressionism): About Mark Rothko

Brief cartoon style nudity at 0:45. A “b” word is used 3:19-3:21.

MODERN (Abstract Expressionism): About Polluck

MODERN: Examples of Three Art Movements

MODERN (Surrealism): The Persistence of Memory by Dali

MODERN (Surrealism): Paintings and Exhibit by Miro

Monday, April 25, 2016

A Kinetic Sculpture Race

A Kinetic Sculpture: Gigantic Faces

The Making of a David Roy Sculpture

A Kinetic Sculpture by Phil Price

Kinetic Sculptures by Anthony Howe

Theo Jansen's Walking Sculptures

MODERN (Dadaism): Fountain by Duchamp

MODERN (Dadaism): Duchamp's Readymades

MODERN: De Stilj Overview

MODERN (Suprematism): 18th Construction by Malevich

MODERN: Comparing a Monet with a Malevich

MODERN (Suprematism): About Malevich's Art

MODERN (Cubism): Guernica by Picasso

The Old Guitarist by Picasso

The Old Guitarist is an oil painting created around 1903 when Picasso was in his 20s. It shows an old, blind, haggard man with threadbare clothing weakly hunched over his guitar, playing in the streets of Barcelona, Spain. Picasso had rejected a traditional art education and was searching for his place in the world. A year after he and a dear friend moved to Paris, that friend committed suicide from a failed relationship. Living in poverty and depressed by his friend’s death, Picasso found himself relating to the downtrodden outcasts of society. He entered his Blue Period, which lasted several years. It is marked by flat expanses of blues, greys, and blacks with sad figures lost in contemplation.

The overall muted blue palette creates a general tone of melancholy, tragedy and sorrow. The guitarist shows no sign of life and appears to be close to death, implying little comfort in the world and accentuating the misery of his situation. Details are eliminated and scale is manipulated to create elongated and elegant proportions while intensifying the silent thoughts of the player. The large, brown guitar stands out against the blue background, becoming the focus of the painting. It represents the guitarist’s only hope, as he depends on his income from music for survival. Some art historians believe the painting expresses the solitary life of an artist and common struggles that come with such a career. Music, or art, can be a burden and an alienating force isolating artists from the rest of the world. And yet, artists depend on society for survival.