monoprint life drawing showing @ rural arts thirsk
lame quality iphone photos - BUT work on show as part of north yorkshire open studios X rural arts
pretty wonderful to be a part of this show with other harrogate college students including printmakers, photographers and ceramicists
cactus drawings - oil paint, pen, oil crayon, collage +masking tape on tea-stained paper/ all work for sale
Northern Young Artists: Symposium - For What it's Worth
For What it’s Worth: the relavance of art education today
Symposium with speakers including Andrew McGettigan, author of “The Great University Gamble: money, markets & the future of higher education”, the Free University of Liverpool and other arts education initiatives.
Titled “£383,911.73”,…
really stoked for this!
What’s the point of art school?
‘Art schools shouldn’t be valued as a hallowed ground for ethereal floaty types, speakers argue, but as a crucible for original thinking, risk-taking and – to the powers that be – a dangerously questioning creativity. Art education is a force for individual and collective social good that deserves to be protected.’
‘Though the right to be creative belongs to everyone, he says, he fears government policy on arts education and tuition fees will exclude those “who are from backgrounds where they need the loan, [who] need to go to art school and learn to question. The ones who can afford it, they don’t need to question, because they’ve got the trust fund.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/may/17/artanddesign-students-art-school
bang on article. it’s too true that the study of art is becoming increasingly more elitist - vegas has completely hit the nail on the head when he says ”The ones who can afford it, they don’t need to question, because they’ve got the trust fund.”
British Masters: A New Jerusalem
Artists turned to the figurative painting tradition to address what it means to be human.
Dr James Fox on 20th Century painting. This is incredible, most moving and insightful doc i’ve watched in time, reaffirming everything.
‘painting, good old fashioned painting, still stands’
Portrait with Still Life. George Telfer Bear (British, 1876-1973). Oil on board. City of Edinburgh Council.
In 1931, Bear was one of six artists to exhibit as ‘Les Peitres Ecossais’ at the Galeries Georges Petit in Paris. Member of the Society of Eight and influenced by his contact there with Cadell. Exhibited regularly at Royal Scottish Academy, Glasgow Institute and overseas.
this is really beautiful
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proper shins day today
"Most self-made people consider themselves outsiders, no matter how at the center of things they find themselves."
Carl Swanson (via explore-blog)
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"A painting is a visual path that looking follows. A musical composition does the same for listening. Art is a summoning of attention. To create it requires the highest directed focus, as does experiencing it."
Sven Birkerts makes a fine addition to history’s greatest definitions of art.
Complement with Susan Sontag on art and Greil Marcus on the essence of the art impulse.
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watched a great doc on BBCfour last night which collected loads of interviews with artists speaking about their work and ideas. man ray said something brilliant which i’ve never thought of before
‘it is like making love, there is no progress only different ways of doing it. i cant do anything better than the old masters - i can only do it differently.’
"The real value of a real education … has almost nothing to do with knowledge and everything to do with simple awareness."
David Foster Wallace (via explore-blog)
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