Aug 6, 2012 | Brooklyn Museum, painting
The painter’s eyes are hidden by the brim of his hat as he delicately applies paint to the canvas, pinky up. I’ve always found paintings of painters painting so unique; as an opportunity to reveal what they think about their own craft. This one glorifies by simplifying, as the painter’s companion lies next to him in the grass, with their shining canoe resting behind them – tail end still in the water.
He’s even using his fishing rod to prop up his canvas, as a way of officially merging these two very leisurely activities. The wisps of grass flow up all around the couple, raising them up into a cloud of green and white. The lake behind is one flat color, like a plate of glass with nothing behind it.
Post addition!
Thanks to a comment left by an fellow art-enthusiast named Adrian, I’d like to add the following image to this post, which could very well be Sargent painting this very piece! The grass looks exactly the same and the angle would fit perfectly.
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Aug 6, 2012 | street art
These pictures are from some beautiful street art I passed yesterday. I tweeted out an image, but decided it deserved its own post, especially since it takes up an entire building. You can find it for yourself on 3rd Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery.
Shadowed birds fly towards her with fervor, surrounding and overwhelming this anonymous person as she covers her face in despair. The paint is rough and dripping in all places and like most street art, this only makes it more beautiful since it’s being forced to survive outside on the New York City streets.
The birds fly from beneath written words which read:
paradox will assume new meaning
and be found to be the language
which the intuition uses when the intellectual currency has failed
the use of paradox
does not spring from a desire to mystify
the hearers or oneself
it arises from
the inability of language to
say two things at once
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Aug 3, 2012 | news
German artist Nina Boesch has done some pretty cool stuff with something that usually just litters the streets and subway stations.
Check out more of her Metrocard collages on today’s HuffPost Arts post here, and think about all the cool stuff you could do with things that are normally just thrown away!
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