Paul Klee famously said: “Art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible.” He seems to have meant that art does (or should) not reproduce what we see, but, rather, that it manufactures what we see. Under this interpretation, a painting is not a sort of mechanism that captures and displays existing visible data, but an engine to create a way of looking.

Thus, art does not reproduce the visible—what is commonly seen—but makes visible—what commonly is not seen, but which the artist has intuited in his or her own uncommon seeing, and makes visible to us.

Browse and download high-resolution, public domain Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations and Posters.

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Find out how to capture compelling gestures in your wire armatures! In this lesson, I'll show you how you can push your wire armatures to a whole new level by experimenting with gesture and expression.

• https://www.posespace.com/
• Gesture first!
• Strike the pose! Where is your head? balance?
• Exaggerate
• Three primary masses of the body: head, ribcage, pelvis
• Bridgeman "Drawing from Life"

A visual search engine for discovering free images from some of the best museums in the world.

Museo is a visual search engine that connects you with the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rijksmuseum, the Harvard Art Museums, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the The Cleveland Museum of Art, and the New York Public Library Digital Collectionmore to come! Images you find here are typically free to use, but please check with the source institution for more specifics.

Discover art by Van Gogh, Picasso, Warhol & more in the Art Institute's collection spanning 5,000 years of creativity.

https://www.openculture.com/2018/10/art-institute-chicago-puts-44000-works-art-online-view-high-resolution.html

The Belgian painter René Magritte created some of the most enigmatic and iconic works in Surrealist art.
In 1926 Magritte was commissioned to create the poster above for the popular singer Marie-Louise Van Emelen, better known as Primevère. For more of Magritte’s Art Deco sheet music covers, visit Hyperallergic.

https://hyperallergic.com/50229/sheet-music-rene-magritte/

On View
Aug 25, 2021 - Nov 21, 2021
JCDecaux bus shelters: New York City, Chicago, and Boston

ANTI-ICON is an exhibition of newly commissioned photographs by Brooklyn-based photographer and performance artist Martine Gutierrez (b. 1989 Berkeley, CA). It continues her exploration of identity across the cultural landscapes of gender, race, class, and celebrity. In ten new works, Gutierrez has transformed herself into a multitude of roles, reinterpreting a diverse canon of radical historical and mythological figures. Through each metamorphosis, Gutierrez embodies the spirit of heroines who have achieved legendary status across cultures, over thousands of years, in both art history and popular culture.

Of all the varied objects of creation there is, probably, no portion that affords so much gratification and delight to mankind as plants. —Elizabeth Twining
“Who owned nature in the eighteenth century?” asks Londa Schiebinger in Plants and Empire, a study of what the Stanford historian of science calls “colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic World.” The question was largely decided at the time by “heroic voyaging botanists” and “biopirates” who claimed the world’s natural resources as their own.

https://www.c82.net/twining/

Representing nearly every type of work de Kooning made, in both technique and subject matter, this retrospective includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints.

https://www.moma.org/d/assets/W1siZiIsIjIwMTcvMDMvMzEva2xzcHM0aGx1X3RyMTU2NTkuMzRfZnJlaXJlLmpwZyJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDIwMDB4MjAwMFx1MDAzZSJdXQ/tr15659.34_freire.jpg?sha=fd872d3bb1209995

María Freire, Uruguayan, 1917–2015

Lewis’s expansive engagement with drawing involves material, language and the properties of abstraction. He uses poetry and text to raise and explore social and political issues such as race and power. Graphite powder, his medium of choice, provides endless possibilities, but it’s “an inherently unruly medium, a substance that threatens to wander,” and therefore is potentially an environmental hazard.

My show, "Cross Country" is up at the HEP through 10/3 with the reception happening tonight.

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The number of museums that have made their collections available online whole, or in part, has grown exponentially and shows no signs of slowing.

The opportunity to see all of Van Gogh’s bedroom paintings in one place may have passed us by for now—an exhibit in Chicago brought them together in 2016. But we can see the original bedroom at the yellow house in Arles in a virtual space, along with almost 1,000 more Van Gogh paintings and drawings, at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam's site. The digitized collection showcases a vast amount of Van Gogh’s work—including not only landscapes, but also his many portraits, self-portraits, drawings, city scenes, and still-lifes.

• Add a dark pigment to light colors.
• When darkening a color, avoid using black. To create a more nuanced color, try adding ultramarine blue or burnt umber instead.
• Skip using black altogether. Mix them in equal parts to make a rich, beautiful black. When mixed with white, it makes a great gray.
• To make a color look “cool,” add blue. To make it appear warmer, try incorporating yellows or reds.
• Play around with color mixing without using any paint—thanks to this website. Try Colors
• Mix your colors a little lighter than you want them to dry.

I’d go as far as saying that you should not expect any traction until you have put out (published, shipped) at least three hundred great pieces of work.

It is this level of quantity that leads to:

Refinement and mastery of your skills;
Being faster, more efficient and better at flow;
A growing sense of momentum and energy;
Getting a better sense of what people WANT;
More ‘nodes’ through which to attract attention online and elsewhere;
More ideas and more ‘aha’ moments that lead to more electric, more emotional output;
Others believing in you because you believe in yourself, by showing up often or every day.

“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly."

Writing intrinsically champions and improves creativity, critical thinking, and clarity.

To help further this exploration, Reas and his colleague Ben Fry (a principal of Fathom, a design and software consultancy in Boston) in 2001 developed their own software, called Processing, that bridges the divide between programming and art, making both processes more intuitive.