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It is a popular thing these day that graffiti artists will sometimes use blank USPS Priority Mail Labels as a canvas for their art. Hey, they’re free, and they stick to most surfaces, so win-win!
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The NY Now Winter Marketplace just wrapped for the season and it was a super fun time for me, as usual! I’m delighted to have discovered the art of artist Desiree, whose I Must Draw studio creates insanely cute and clever greeting cards like this one — which has the honor of ushering back our first Bacon Thing of The Day post in quite some time! Check out more of her adorable designs in her online shop, at This Link!
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In 1956, Atsuko Tanaka (1932 – 2005) gave a performance while wearing a sculpture called Electric Dress, which was made from 200 blinking incandescent lightbulbs, and tubes covered in red, blue, yellow and green enamel paint. The concentric circles and circuitous lines of this Untitled painting were directly inspired by that performance.
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Art is the best invention of humankind. By taking part in activities such as songwriting, drawing pictures, or crafting with clay, we materialize the visions in our heads. These experiences allow people to develop their creativity and writing skills. But how does this process occur, and how do people improve their versatile skills through art? Here’s what you should know.
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In 1941, while convalescing from a serious illness, Henri Matisse devised a fresh approach to his interest in repeated motifs: a drawing series that he would published in 1943 as Themes and Variations. Comprising 162 drawings organized into 17 groups, the series mostly depicts female figures reclining or relaxing in chairs. This example, Woman Resting in an Interior (1941) is characterized by the contrast of charcoal and paper and of flatness and depth, as well as by its fluid, energetic line. Other studies in Themes and Variations use a much cleaner line to render the subject. As a whole, the series demonstrates the artist’s commitment to capturing a drawing’s essence through serial reworking.
Photographed in the Morgan Library in Manhattan.