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Art Education

Don’t these pictures make you wish you came to The University of Montana?!  Last night I stayed after Vertebrate Osteology in order to set up this still-life for a few Art Ed. students to come over from the School of Fine Arts and do some practice sketches.  If we had the space available, I would make it a point to keep something like this on permanent display either at the School of FA or within our building in Health Sciences.  A big part of my advocacy for the museum is that it is a facility for every department on campus, not just for science/biological research, but for artists as well!  

jells

flosef:

ymutate:

beta version aquarium screen saver, circa 1925

Paul Klee (1879-1940) Fish Magic. 1925

For those who make art, Paul Klee’s pedagogical sketchbook is worth a look.

lucybellwood:

vickorano:

not-quite-normal:

Was looking through blogs for inspiration and whatever and I just can’t resist such a large amount of hands.  Just… Look at these hands.

(embiggen)

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Umf. Yes.

Getting to be about that time of year when I force myself to draw 100 Hands again.

*deep breath*

I should try this!

superherojuice:

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Do Ho Suh. Cause & Effect.

This giant tornado of piggybacked men is an installation by Korean artist Do Ho Suh that is currently on display at Western Washington University (photographs above depict it in alternate configurations). Via Western:

“‘Cause & Effect’ evokes a vicious tornado. This vast ceiling installation is a composition of densely hung strands that anchor thousands of figures clad in colors resembling a Doppler reading stacked atop one another,” said Do Ho Suh, adding that the artwork is a “physical realization of existence, suggesting strength in the presence of numerous individuals. The work is an attempt to decipher the boundaries between a single identity and a larger group, and how the two conditions coexist.”

Suh has been all over the news lately with his recent Fallen Star Lands installation in San Diego, and his Floor piece in Singapore. See many more views of this piece and other works here. (via the stranger, korea.net, herry lawford) (By Christopher)

Do Ho Suh is one of my favorite contemporary artists, and when I met him I was shocked at how humble he was. Also like, his work is CONSTANTLY misinterpreted due to western/individualistic bias and every time I see it, it makes me really angry. But he just kind of shrugged it off. I’d write a lot more and probably will later but not on this post because you don’t give a fuck.

I would read it. I loved meeting/listening to Do Ho Suh, he is so gifted, though now I’m a bit afraid of misinterpreting his work, haha.

To old followers: Hey guys this is where I’m going to start putting everything I draw that I want to share as well as design/art/architecture/aesthetics/phenomenology things that you might not want to be cluttering up my personal blog.

To anyone new: I am a studio art senior at Reed College, and I started this blog to document my artistic progress and thought as I leave college. Some part of my blog will probably be rants about the pros/cons of getting a BA in art, as opposed to a BFA. In fact, that’s part of why I was interested in having this, more focused blog.

This is going to be awesome. More later.