Popular Mechanics ~ 1954

Writer Jenée Desmond-Harris on how to divide your to-do list:

“I started dividing my to-do list into
1) things I have to do
2) things I want to do
3) things other people want me to do.

Life changing! I often don’t get to #3 and I finally realized… this is what it means to have boundaries.”

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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Always With Honor is a graphic design and illustration studio in Portland, Oregon

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Game-board; wooden, originally hollow; top covered with 20 inlaid square shell plaques; edges made of small plaques and strips, some sculptured with an eye and some with rosettes; on the back are three lines of triangular shell ornamental inlays set as part of the modern reconstruction.

An open directory of female* illustrators

The most well-known passage Marianne Williamson wrote has some disconcerting implications.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,” Williamson writes in A Return to Love. “Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.”

Graphic designer Eugène Grasset’s 1897 book, Plants and Their Application to Ornament, vividly demonstrates the ways in which nature was distilled into popular decorative motifs at the end of the 19th-century.

In July, 2011, several members of the BHL staff began putting illustrations from BHL books on Flickr. It started as a simple way to flag favorite staff images and document the illustrations we were…

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.

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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/

Information architect, author, and educator

The difficulty in drawing from a photograph is knowing what to omit. The photograph contains too much information and generally too many contrary sources of light. Drawing from a photograph is a matter of selection and editing. Degas used photographs in an appropriate way. That is to say, he was not dominated by the material contained in the photo, and felt free to depart from it at will.

Illustration means to shed light on, or to make clear. Drawing suggests the idea of revealing something that is contained within an object and can be drawn out, rather than something that is on the surface. This may explain why those who begin to draw often start with the bones. Both activities require intelligence, perseverance, and talent.

On View
Aug 25, 2021 - Nov 21, 2021
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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.

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Read writing from Jovan Rocanov on Medium. Visual storyteller. Passionate about guiding people through the maze of narratives, symbols, and meanings. Every day, Jovan Rocanov and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium.

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