Black & White in Photoshop & Illustrator.
+ Live trace with Clipping masks, save for web as a 2 color black and white gif
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Today in Class
Black & White in Photoshop & Illustrator.
+ Live trace with Clipping masks, save for web as a 2 color black and white gif
Monday, March 28, 2011
German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse
German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Through July 11, 2011
"More of this work should be displayed more often, which is to say that the show’s scope reminds us of the insufficiency of the museum’s 2004 expansion. The pieces here represent just a fraction of MoMA’s holdings: There are some 3,200 German Expressionist works on paper — the vast, vast majority of them prints — in its collection.
On the other hand, the museum has announced that on Sunday, when the exhibition opens to the public (it is in members’ previews on Friday and Saturday), all 3,200 will become available for online viewing at moma.org/germanexpressionism. In addition to its own considerable merits, “German Expressionism” should provide a good grounding for a digital immersion — and spur hope for seeing more of the real things."
source: Bleak Visions From Early-20th-Century Rebels by Roberta Smith
Rauschenberg's B/W BMW
BMW 635 CSi Art Car (1986)
Robert Rauschenberg
"In 1986, he was commissioned by BMW to paint a full size BMW 635 CSi for the sixth installment of the famed BMW Art Car Project. Rauschenberg's contribution was the first to include the wheels in the project, as well as incorporating previous works of art into the design." (source: wikipedia)
Friday, March 25, 2011
Reception: Thursday, March 31st, 2011 at F/O
Around the age of eighty, after nearly sixty years as a designer, Janette Laverrière began making "useless things." This exhibition examines five artists who re-invent, re-imagine, and re-purpose the use, meaning and worth of functional objects in daily life and domestic space. The result of these endeavors often begins with the implication of a utilitarian object: a vessel, a newspaper, a handkerchief, a mirror. However, by denying their primary identity, these objects change from implying a use we know to registering as "useless" or non-functional, and acquire a new use dictated by the artist.
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery
1616 Walnut, Suite 100
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Sample Booklet
Publishing on Iussuu from an Illustrator PDF
1) Create account on Issuu.com
2) Click Upload Document to upload your pdf
3) Fill out required information on the following screen
4) Upload the document and wait for it to finish processing
5) View your Library on Issuu to select the document
6) Click the "Get Embed Code" link under the pdf preview. It looks like this "< >"
7) Use the default settings or change them on the following screen
8) On your blog create a new post and make sure you are in "Edit HTML" mode instead of the "Compose" mode.
9) Copy the "embed code"
10) Paste into the HTML of a new blog post
Ways of Seeing
The text above comes from John Berger's 1972 BBC documentary Ways of Seeing is still relevant today. Though the footage is dated his argument isn't and he states is case in bold language. Where are these bold words from creative intellectuals in the 21st century?
It's difficult to draw up a long list of names who speak so provocatively today beyond, perhaps, Matthew Collings.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Ryan Travis Christian: Black and White Freak Out
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Armory Show This Weekend Piers 92 & 94
Thursday March 3rd - Sunday March 6th in New York.
The Armory Show is America's leading fine art fair devoted to the most important art of the 20th and 21st centuries. In its eleven years, the fair has become an international institution. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during Armory Arts Week
Click here for information on getting to the show.
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