Harry Napper, Liberty and English Art Nouveau
Illustration: Pan Pipes textile design by Harry Napper 1890s Harry Napper was probably one of the most influential designers connected with the prodigious and to some extent prestigious output of the London retail outlet Liberty. Although Napper supplied a number of textile designs, he was also involved in the design of carpets and rugs, furniture and metalwork, much of it for Liberty.
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Harry Napper, Liberty and English Art Nouveau
In a Friday post about Byron Kim’s Synecdoche (1991-present), I noted the work’s intellectual roots in America’s 1980s and 1990s debates about multiculturalism. The United States wasn’t the only country to have a national conversation about multiculturalism in those years and it wasn’t just Kim who used tried-and-true art strategies to engage with that discourse: Great Britain had its own debate about multiculturalism and what it meant for the British
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Art and the multi-cultural 1990s: From Kim to Shonibare
Under-promise and over-deliver–this is a key business rule. It means that you should 1) never promise more than you can make good on and 2) surpass any expectations. In other words, wow your patrons, curators, administrators, and gallerists with speed, efficiency, and quality.
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Art Marketing Action + Podcast: Exceed Expectations
If you’ve followed my blog more than a year you probably remember that I took part in The Flemish Primitives in Brugge in January 2009. The visit resulted in four blog posts (just in case you wonder what it’s all about): The Flemish Primitives: A travel report (part 1) , Chocolate surprise (part 2) , Heston Blumenthal (part 3) and Glowing lollipops (part 4)
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The Flemish Primitives 2010
If you haven’t already seen the video for Belgian pop band Team William’s You Look Familiar , enjoy! Directed by Joris Bergmans and Michélé De Feudis, the video takes its cues from classic Max Fleischer cartoons with a little Super Mario Brothers thrown in for good measure. Posted by John Martz on Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog | Permalink | No comments Tags: Animation , Joris Bergmans , Michele De Feudis , music video , video
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Team William – You Look Familiar
Synecdoche , the Byron Kim installation acquired by the National Gallery of Art late last year, is not a great work of art. It is closer to the end of every art historical precedent it engages than it is to the beginning: abstract painting, the use of the grid, monochrome painting, abstraction-as-portraiture, minimalism, even its use of art world insiders as models to help the work ‘get over,’ WWE-style
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Synecdoche and the National Gallery of Art
The last few weeks the New Yorker has been particularly rich with visual arts coverage, with an essay on Jan. 4 by Adam Gopnik about Van Gogh’s severed ear and now, in the upcoming Jan 11 issue, Louis Menand’s essay about Andy Warhol. Both essays make great reading each in its own way, with Gopnik fascination with van Gogh’s need for solitude but love of community; and Menand’s dissection of Warhol’s illusionism.
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Art writing outside the art niche
Today sees the opening of the exhibition Warriors of the Plains: 200 Years of native North American Honour and Ritual at the British Museum in London. The exhibition puts together artefacts that focus on the various indigenous cultures that lived on the North American Plains between 1800 to the present day.
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Warriors of the Plains: 200 Years of Native North American Honour and Ritual
(Photo of my popup paper dollhouse ) Recently I received an email from a reader with a question: “I was wondering what your daily routine looks like?” When I read that, my first thought was, “Yes, I wish I knew that too.” Small children can divert and change the best-laid plans. If I were to write my routine on poster board with a permanent marker, I’d have to tear it up as soon as I finished, because it would need to be different.
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My Real-Life, Practical Daily Routine
Illustration: Selection of Chemehuevi basketry and pottery The Chemehuevi, like so many indigenous cultures across the South West of the US, were and still are expert basketry makers. The Chemehuevi have a long tradition of basketry that extends across countless generations. The basketry craft itself was the traditional domain of women as it was across much of North America.
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Chemehuevi Basketry
Artist Geri Dunn was stunned when someone purchased a gift certificate of hers at a silent auction and then wanted to either 1) redeem it for cash or 2) commission an original drawing for the amount on the certificate ($150). People really do ask/demand the darndest things! Let’s look at the situation and start with the gift certificate itself, pictured here. The small lettering on the bottom row consists of these three components
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Gift certificate wording
Illustration: Honiton lace design 1910 The town of Honiton in Devon produced some of the most sought after lace in England. It was said that the town had been producing lace since the Elizabethan era, though it is now thought that serious production of lace did not begin for another century after that.
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The Revival of Honiton Lace
Here are some of my Twitter tweets you might have missed if you’ve been (as you should have been) celebrating, resting, opening packages, and sipping champagne and eggnog over the past two weeks. 10 Great free software apps from Inc.com Never pay a web designer to learn how to do something 4 u. Learning is off-the-clock
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@abstanfield bi-Tweekly
Illustration: Harriet Powers Bible quilt 1886 The quilting work of Harriet Powers is a symbolists dream. The two quilts shown here, detail some of the important stories and legends of the Bible set within a panelled quilt. However, these are by no means pieces that can be tagged as ‘naive’ or even ‘folk’ art; they were produced by a woman with an instinctive understanding of some of the complex messages underlying the stories
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Harriet Powers Bible Quilt
Illustration: Ernest Percyval Tudor-Hart First Sin tapestry 1961 Ernest Percyval Tudor-Hart was a Canadian fine artist who spent a large section of his career in Paris and London where he opened and taught in his own schools, within the first two decades of the twentieth century. Tudor-Hart moved in some of the best artistic circles in Europe and knew a number of artists including the Hungarians Alador Korosfoi-Kriesch and Sondor Nagy, and so therefore also knew the Godollo Arts & Crafts colony in Hungary.
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Percyval Tudor-Hart and the First Sin
The Aran Islands are a group of small windswept islands situated off the west coast of Ireland which has given us a unique and often copied knit genre. It is important not to confuse Aran with the Scottish island of Arran which has nothing to do with Aran knit and is in no way related or linked in anyway with the Irish Aran
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Irish Aran Knit
by Debra Miller I’m posting a quick holiday reminder about some of the terrific plays in Philadelphia this month. As you probably already know, with the present state of our economy, many of the small theater companies in Philadelphia are in extra need of support. I have seen several outstanding productions in December, some sold out, but some with half-empty audiences, so I’m hoping that all of you can find the time to attend one or more of these, to keep the theater companies going strong in this time of recession. Check out their websites for tickets; you’ll be glad that you did! “Just Married” scene with the cast of actors and puppets from Scapin, Lantern Theater Company; photo by Jeffrey Stockbridge Scapin – Lantern Theater Company (at St. Stephen’s Theater; ) – hilarious and inventive reinterpretation of Molière, set in Venice, using hybrid human/puppets; even the Inquirer raved about this one! Great fun for all ages–kids will love the magic and slapstick, adults will get the clever gags and sophisticated humor, and everyone will appreciate the witty set design of Nick Embree and the unique puppetry of Aaron Cromie. This is not to be missed; I saw it twice. Extended through 1/10.
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Theater for the Holidays!
In some recent discussions I have had, I have noticed an opinion–mainly amongst non-bloggers and non-Facebookers–that these digital realms are dominated by young people. While this is not a total misconception, it is also not entirely true
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Boomers Increase Presence on Facebook, In Blogosphere
You probably know his works from the New York Review of Books where his black and white drawings were featured since 1963 bringing dark humor and beauty to writings about political and literary figures. See untold numbers of his caricatures at the New York Review’s online gallery. What I didn’t know, and learned from this obit in the NY Times , is that Levine was a Temple and Tyler School of Art grad, with degrees in education and art
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Caricaturist David Levine, dead at age 83
Brian Biggs is easily one of my favourite children’s illustrators and I’ve been eagerly following his forays into screen printing (snagging a swell robot print along the way), so his most recent blog post is a real treat. Brian shares a bit of his process, and walks us through the steps it took for him to take this: …and turn it into this: Posted by John Martz on Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog | Permalink | No comments Tags: Brian Biggs , colour separation , printmaking , process , silkscreen