The right hand of Luisa Roldan’s Saint Ginés de la Jara, made about 1692. She created the saint’s form with wood boxes, then attached separately carved hands, feet, head, and robes from blocks.
+ How the hand was painted.
NYTimes: Masterworks for One and All
NYTimes: Masterworks for One and All http://nyti.ms/114jv8L
Brittany Schall, “Temporal Touch” (2013)
Drawing with mixed media on clayboard
16 x 16 inches
( just finished it yesterday!)
Ornate? Wait till you see the desk it unlocks.
Steel key to a desk made in Paris for Maximilian Emanuel, the Elector of Bavaria, about 1692–1700. The J. Paul Getty Museum
Greatly influenced by Surrealism, Kansuke Yamamoto made innovative photographs, collages, and poems and was a key figure in the Japanese avant-garde.
His work is featured in Japan’s Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto.Stapled Flesh, 1949, Kansuke Yamamoto. From the Collection of Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck. © Toshio Yamamoto
Reconsidering Wile E. Coyote’s Artistic Legacy
Sometimes life (and art) aren’t fair, particularly in the case of classic Looney Tunes character…
I like this creepy web cam pic I took.
Help Save the Coney Island Mermaids, the World’s Largest Art Parade
Seen at the Mermaid Parade (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)
Anyone who’s ever been to the…
Watch Dirty Martini, the queen of “new burlesque,” in a super 8 film by Pari Dukovic: http://nyr.kr/13i9TLv
