Posts tagged: art
Dustin Hoffman on art and failure.
byrn:
Tumblr De Stijl.
La identidad de una empresa especialmente de un servicio de internet, depende bastante del layout de su página web. No tenemos que ver logos o letras para identificar la empresa, sólo colores y la posición en la que se encuentran. Por eso quise combinar el layout de páginas web con el movimiento de arte De Stijl.
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If you weren’t already in love with Maurice Sendak from his masterful work, Where the Wild Things Are, you’re likely to fall once you watch his interview at home. Speaking on the need for ferocity and irreverence in art and pausing, sweetly, to pet his dog, the 89-year-old illustrator shares his answer—”I’m not a whore”—to requests over the years to do a WTWA sequel while rejecting common notions of money and fame in the creative world.
(video by TateShots, above description from coolhunting.com)
‘On the Shelf’ (1970) by Michael Craig-Martin
Elizabeth Gilbert: A new way to think about creativity
On the trouble with *being* a genius instead of *having* a genius:
…and all you have to do is look at the very grim death count in the 20th century alone, of really magnificent creative minds who died young and often at their own hands, you know? And even the ones who didn’t literally commit suicide seem to be really undone by their gifts. Norman Mailer, just before he died, last interview, he said “Every one of my books has killed me a little more.” An extraordinary statement to make about your life’s work. But we don’t even blink when we hear somebody say this because we’ve heard that kind of stuff for so long and somehow we’ve completely internalized and accepted collectively this notion that creativity and suffering are somehow inherently linked and that artistry, in the end, will always ultimately lead to anguish.
And the question that I want to ask everybody here today is are you guys all cool with that idea? Are you comfortable with that — because you look at it even from an inch away and, you know — I’m not at all comfortable with that assumption. I think it’s odious. And I also think it’s dangerous, and I don’t want to see it perpetuated into the next century. I think it’s better if we encourage our great creative minds to live.
Great talk. Don’t miss her profile of Tom Waits.
“The human heart stripped of fat and muscle, with just the angel veins exposed.”
(know who shot this?) via loveyourchaos
Does this art look familiar? It might seem especially so if you’re a fan of “Calvin and Hobbes,” the beloved comic strip that sledded off of the comics page in 1995.
This painting — by “Calvin and Hobbes” creator Bill Watterson — is the first new art from him that his syndicate has seen in the 16 subsequent years, say executives with Universal Uclick and its parent company, Andrews McMeel. The artwork is of the character Petey Otterloop from Richard Thompson’s comic strip “Cul de Sac.”
For some who were interested, here are some photos of the process of creating PERHAPS. Honestly, it should have been much easier than it was. A friend of mine printed the paint mask in two long strips, top and bottom. Unfortunately they were about 3 inches too long. I was forced to cut out each letter and paste them on the wall separately, adjusting their positions by eye.
