Richard Box

After seeing Walter de Maria I reminded of this project of Richard Box: "Field" The Guardian G2 26.02.04 "How does this field of lights work? Ian Sample The 1301 fluorescent tubes are powered only by the electric fields generated by overhead powerlines. Richard Box, artist-in-residence at Bristol University’s physics department, got the idea for the installation after a chance conversation with a friend. ‘He was telling me he used to play with a fluorescent tube under the pylons by his house,’ says Box. ‘He said it lit up like a light sabre.’ Box decided to see if he could fill a field with tubes lit by powerlines. After a few weeks hunting for a site, he found a field, slipped the local farmer £200 and planted 3,600 square metres with tubes collected from hospitals." (continue reading of just look)

Walter de Maria and Christo

You all know but it's just a reminder: Right: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Umbrellas Japan-U.S.A. (1984-91). "Installed simultaneously in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, and in southern California, two cultures separated and joined by the Pacific Ocean, The Umbrellas was designed in vivid blue for the verdant environment of Japan and in bright yellow for arid southern California. However, structural components were the same: each umbrella stood more than 19 feet high, opened to a 28-foot diameter, and weighed 448 pounds. In December 1990 the first steel bases for the umbrellas were installed 1,340 blue umbrellas in Ibaraki and 1,760 yellow umbrellas at the Tejon Ranch in southern California had been set up." Left: The Lightning Field, 1977, by Walter De Maria, "Commissioned and maintained by Dia Art Foundation, The Lightning Field is recognized internationally as one of the late-twentieth century's most significant works of art and exemplifies Dia's commitment to the support of art projects whose nature and scale exceed the limits normally available within the traditional museum or gallery. It is a work of situated in a remote area of the high desert of western New Mexico the sculpture consists of 400 stainless steel poles situated in a rectangular grid array one mile by one kilometer. A sculpture to be walked in as well as viewed, The Lightning Field is intended to be experienced over an extended period of time." It's hard to find a pictures of The Lightning Field because de Maria don't want to interfere the experience with previous images.

Smart mouse

He really wants it bad.

St Michael's Mount Silhouette

Look at this beautiful picture of St Michael's Mount here. Now you can understand this amazing photo taken by Patrice Moreau of the silhouette of the mount and the abbey. It is considered a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Tim Noble and Sue Webster

"Dirty White Trash", 1998

This is one of he most famous piece of this period of Tim Noble and Sue Webster works. You can find some more of this amazing shadow silhouettes of the two artists here. One never knows what can imagination do with piles of junk and a light.

Doctors WIthout Borders

"Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in more than 60 countries to assist people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe..."(continue reading) There are great people in this world.

Smart cat

You would come up with the same solution...

Snowflakes

Snowflakes at Beauty of Earth.

Bill Viola - The Crossing

I've just found this at Studio Foundation. Bill Viola's "'The Crossing' [detail] (1996). Video/sound installation". Bill Viola has been working with videos and dealing with philosophical and religious concepts that has to do with human experiences. You can find more of his views at his site. It's amazing that so many artists are doing incredible work but the public and some critics are always complaining that art is not in accordance with humans issues and there is too many garbage being done. That's a question for those who are curators of big events and small galleries. This is what Tung Nguyen has to say about this work:

"On the right, the same figure was disappearing into pouring water. The concept of balance is presented through opposite concepts that each alone is an extreme that can only be balanced by one of the other extreme. Left - right, fire - water, red - blue, warm - cool, hot - cold, bottom - top, and so on. The viewer can even sense the artist's desire for moderation, for compromise, and the message that the extremes are what harming us (burnt by fire or washed away by water) and we need a common ground to survive."

Balance...

Funny signs

Literature Map - funny

Check this map: Literature Map. You type the full name of your favorite author and it generates an animated map of authors that somehow are related whether by style, content or reader's taste. "The closer two writers are, the more likely someone will like both of them." Check it. It's funny!

Roberto Bolaño - plagiarism - the easy way to become a writer

This was the book I found at my first visit at Words Without Borders: Roberto Bolaño, "The Many Masks of Max Mirebelais" "Roberto Bolaño's Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of American writers who flirted with or espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is a tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition. The novel is composed of short biographies, including descriptions of the writers' works. All of the writers are imaginary, although they are all carefully and credibly situated in real literary worlds. Authors from twelve different countries are included." Read Roberto Bolaño text here. "With the passage of time he became expert in the art of breaking down the work of another poet in order to make it his own"

Words Without Borders

The project Words Without Borders — The online magazine for international literature This is a great initiative not only for literature but for exchanging cultural ideas. You can search for your favorite writer and end up interested in another one that you have never heard about which is one of the most amazing aspects of the project. There are book reviews and informations about writers and the countries they live. They have already done a lot since 2007 and are planning to do more: adding more features, events, writers, criticism, biographical and historical data. It's a great way to make literature alive and not that boring class one has to attend reading books that has no interest other than taking notes to please others.

"Our ultimate aim is to introduce exciting international writing to the general public — travelers, teachers, students, publishers, and a new generation of eclectic readers — by presenting international literature not as a static, elite phenomenon, but a portal through which to explore the world. In the richness of cultural information we present, we hope to help foster a “globalization” of cultural engagement and exchange, one that allows many voices in many languages to prosper."

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Black and White

I found it Here by Kiran

Black and White landscape

Enjoy the quietness and light.

Steven E. Gordon sketches

At Steven E. Gordon's blog I found amazing drawings and sketches I love sketches. They give us an idea of the process of artist's researches on the character and some studies of the body in movement. I'll be posting some others of Gordon's sketches.

Elizabeth Barret Browning

Consolation By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ALL are not taken; there are left behind ............Living Beloveds, tender looks to bring ............And make the daylight still a happy thing, And tender voices, to make soft the wind: But if it were not so--if I could find ............No love in all this world for comforting, ............Nor any path but hollowly did ring Where 'dust to dust' the love from life disjoin'd; And if, before those sepulchers unmoving ............I stood alone (as some forsaken lamb Goes bleating up the moors in weary dearth) Crying 'Where are ye, O my loved and loving?'-- ............I know a voice would sound, 'Daughter, I AM. Can I suffice for Heaven and not for earth?'

Silence

This is an amazing blog of a Danish woman journey in Africa.

Kitty mien

I don't know from which site I've stolen this. What is he saying?

The masterpiece cards - Art Blog by Bob

Bob at Art Blog by Bob, an excellent blog about Arts, just wrote about "The Masterpiece Cards" a collection of 250 cards of artists from Renascence to 1960. There is only one example of a card at the site and it was at Bob's site that I became aware of the back side of one of these cards showing the historical approach and some aesthetic considerations. It's good to have the paper at your hand and you can browse your eyes at the picture they have gathered according to "art review of each by scores of renowned art historians". Reading the list of pieces they have chosen from each artist don't causes many impression but as it's a collection of masterpieces paintings such as Vélasquez, Las Meninas ; Munch, The scream; Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère & Olympia; da Vinci, The Last Supper & The Mona Lisa; Dalí, The Persistence of Memory; van Gogh, Bedroom at Arles, The Starry Night & The Night Café are inevitable. This is a good start to make people familiar with the masterpieces and make people wanting to know more about some artists they will find more interesting. If you think of Leonardo da Vinci and only consider one of his paintings you will have one da Vinci that will change after the apreciation of some of his works. I believe it can be considered as another tool for those who are art lovers but books are valuable source and the Web can help every individual creating its own master-piece collections. We are talking about reproductions. There is a kind of "market" for reproductions. Those who are at X or Y museum are more displayed and those who have been studied by a number of experts has also its place at this market. I would like masterpiece cards of paintings and sculptures that are at the basement of museums or taken away from public view because they are at private collections. It would require lots of money. But we cannot stop daring to dream. This is a good way to have access to art's history. I hope that their next step is making collections of one single artist at a time because it’s a good way to understand each artist and their arts, world and aesthetic in a more complex way. Since we still cannot travel in space and time at light speed we have to rely on reproductions although nothing compares to the experience of being on an exhibition dedicated to an artist. It's the most efficient and pleasuring way to understand the art and universe of an artist we like. Visit Bob's blog. This is a great source for art lovers. I'm visiting it daily.