Tag: Art
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Humans did not invent art. It was the other way around | Aeon Essays
Indeed, science begins – and can only begin – in the world that art has made. Ultimately, what we call art is the fruit of the human imagination’s capacity to go beyond immediate perception, to dream what lies around this corner, outside the human world. From this point of view, the hypothetical stage of the…
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The Art of the Copyist
Velázquez’s brain is on that canvas. So we’re encountering a person’s brain that doesn’t exist anymore when we’re looking at a painting by them. I’m literally interacting with Velázquez. — Read on kottke.org/26/08/the-art-of-the-copyist
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Thinking or Feeling
Jackson: (23:25) Do you experience art primarily by thinking or by feeling? Tyler: (23:29) I don’t even know what those words mean. I experience it by looking at it. I don’t think I have very deep emotional responses. I think it’s pleasure and I feel I learn a lot from it. When I go out…
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Movie Posters by Eric Rohman
Some nice work here from Swedish designer Eric Rohman, who designed thousands of movie posters in the early-to-mid 20th century. (via m — Read on kottke.org/26/05/movie-posters-by-eric-rohman
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Pejac Transforms Basic Graph Paper into Detailed, Trompe-L’œil Tableaux — Colossal
Pejac’s graphite drawings on graph paper challenge our sense of space and the possibilities of the “blank slate.” — Read on www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/pejac-graph-paper-graphite-drawings/
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10M — Art Discovery Engine | 110,000+ Public Domain Works
Explore 110,000+ public domain artworks from 17 world-class museums. Search by feeling, mood, era, or medium. Free to browse, download, and use. — Read on www.10m.co/
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Archive — Modern Illustration
Archive — Modern Illustration — Read on www.modernillustration.org/archive
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ZARA PICKEN
The online illustration portfolio of Zara Picken, an illustrator based in Lincoln, England. She works with UK and international clients, creating illustrations for editorial, publishing, advertising and more. — Read on www.zarapicken.com/
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‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform | Tracey Emin | The Guardian
Harry tells me that when they are in the studio together, “she talks about what she sees in the canvas, and then starts painting it in”. I ask her if she can describe what that feels like. “There’s the canvas, there’s me, and there’s this other space between us, and you have to go through…
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You Are the Art
The book, the painting, the film script is not the only art. It’s important, but in a way it’s a receipt. It’s a diploma. The book you write, the painting you create, the music you compose is important and artistic, but it’s also a mark of proof that you have done the work to learn,…