Slow and Steady Mows the Lawn
“Hey Dad, do you still have that old mower in the garage?” The slightly guarded reply over the phone that followed was looking for more information. “Which mower do you mean?” Action Girl and I had recently moved into our first house together after several years of apartment dwelling and suddenly I was confronted with the need to own things that I had not considered before. It was a simple and elderly house in an old neighborhood and came with its own foolishly small bit of grassy lawn.
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Slow and Steady Mows the Lawn
Gustav Stickley Wrought iron & copper chandelier 1905 In 1902 Gustav Stickley added a metal workshop to complement the already established Craftsman Workshops. In-house metalworking was principally set up by Stickley as a means of supplying metalwork fittings for his furniture production, as in hinges, handles, inlays etc. However, there was also intense and ongoing competition with other rival companies who were also supplying broadly Arts & Crafts based interior furnishings and accessories
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Gustav Stickley’s Metal Workshop
Congratulations to illustrator Anita Kunz , whose pointed visual statements have graced The New Yorker, Time, and other top publications, for being appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada . According to the official post, she gets this award for “For her contributions as an illustrator whose insightful works have graced publications around the world.” This is pretty much the most prestigious honour you can get in Canada, and the first I know of for an illustrator
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Anita Kunz: Order of Canada
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Lucky Plaza Roti Prata + Supernatural Weekend! + Bunnies in the Wet Market + Lazy Saturday Arvo + Rabbit is a Rather Useless Host + Dinner for Six + Chili Sotong, Black Sauce Chicken, Nai Bai, Stir-Fry Beef with Spring Onions + Bowling Competition (JM vs MP vs PT) + Arcade Competition (Street Fighter, Daytona) + Comfy Mini Van is Perfect for Road Trips + I want This and That but No Stocks in Chanel + Boyfriend Blazer Finally + Juicy Couture is Snore + Subway’s Steak & Cheese is the Best Subway Sub + Michael Jackson Tribute on MTV + Go Go Roger Federer I love my Bunny Chef, he’s so adorable and he smells scrumptious! Last week, for our trip to JB, we brought sake and red wine with us. We were slurping up the salted egg crabs and licking our fingers clean when my friend leaned back, gave a sigh of satisfaction and said “This is what life is all about.” I can’t help FEELING right about what he said.
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Bunny the Chef
It is the final weekend of the Institute of Contemporary Culture ‘s current exhibition Housepaint Phase 2: Shelter at the Royal Ontario Museum. Housepaint, Institute of Contemporary Culture Roloff Beny Gallery, 4th Floor Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON December 13, 2008 – Juy 5, 2009 Curated by Devon Ostrom Curated by Devon Ostrom this provocative and stunning exhibition deals with the difficult issue of poverty and homelessness bringing together some of Canada’s best street artists: Cant 4 / Amanda Marie , Case / Ryan Mackeen , Dixon / Juan Carols Noria , Dstrbo / Dan Butler , EGR / Erica Fosich Rose , Elicser Elliot , Evoke / Patrick Thompson , Fauxreel / Dan Bergeron , Gene Pendon / Gene Starship , Other / Derek Shamus Mehaffey , and Specter / Gabriel Reese
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Housepaint Phase 2: Shelter @ the Royal Ontario Museum
There are group of painters in china , had taken their dream canvas of the country, duty-bound to embark on a “gold-plated” tour. After a baptism, now they are with different “Western” to return to the motherland, or “celebration” or “defeat.” They are the “returnees” in the ranks of special groups, returned to their “journey” is even more curious.
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china painting painters ponder
My love affair with Red Hook began the year I was born. It was where my family had a summer home and where I always go to clear my head. Red Hook is located in upstate New York, Dutchess County, about 100 miles from Manhattan and about 70 from Lenox, Massachusetts. It offers the quaint charm of a day in the country with the easy escape of one tank of gas.
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Frugal Friday – Wanderlust women solo travel for antiquing in Red Hook, NY
Original Signed Peter Hurd Watercolor Originally uploaded by Vjhoneycut Original Signed “Peter Hurd” Watercolor Art-Very Rare 1904-1984 – Artist Peter Hurd was born and raised in Roswell, New Mexico, and was educated at the New Mexico Military Institute, which he attended from 1917 to 1920. From there, he attended West Point Military Academy, and was appointed to the U.S
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Kaufman, Brooks, Graham, Bruno — A dream team. Reading a piece in the New York Times on Dan Graham's much-deserved career survey that opened recently at the Whitney, I was reminded of something that Graham himself told me when I spoke to him a couple of years ago
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But is it art? What Dan Graham, Mel Brooks, Sol Lewitt, Andy Kaufman and Bruno have in common
Carin Wastberg The Sun Goes Down 1902 In the late nineteenth century, Carin Wastberg was a forceful proponent of her native Sweden taking its major art and craft themes and ideas from the British Arts & Crafts movement, rather than continue with the dependence that Sweden placed in the traditions of German art and craft work. Part of the shift away from Germany, was the re-awakening of a national interest in the historical traditions of Sweden, particularly within craft work
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Carin Wastberg and the Swedish Arts & Crafts Movement
Jacko’s sister Janet jackson , took to the stage last night at the BET Awards in Los Angeles and spoke up about the Jacko’s death , only three days after the announcement that Michael jackson had tragically died after suffering a cardiac arrest. Janet Jackson had to take a bit of time to gather herself before she spoke out to the audience. She said that the entire family wanted to be there but it was far too painful for them, so she was speaking out on their behalf
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Janet Jackson honors at BET Awards 2009
After entering the new century, including the visual arts including oil painting faces new environment – on the one hand, high-tech technology and the popularity of digital imaging, into our “image flooding” of the times, life-like images at your fingertips; On the other hand, Drawing on the traditional concept of national reunification, constraints and reducing the teaching of Chinese oil painting in painting and painting value and status. However, practice in the arts, oil painting is still considered a teaching and mastering the process of painting techniques and the basic means necessary, most artists are still painting and artistic creation as an integral part. It is obvious that today’s “Painting” is not the past, “Sketches”, either outside or indoor painting light painting, whether it is inherited Hao, Huang Quan of the painting, or the study of painting impressionist painter, painting purpose, significance and specific methods have undergone profound transformation
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Rococo Revival interior 1840s The Art Nouveau movement shared with the Rococo decorative style of the eighteenth century, a fascination for nature which was displayed within the two different eras, in a remarkably similar way. Both shared an interest in asymmetrical forms of stylised fauna, very often arranged in complicated ornamental work. However, Art Nouveau was a decorative style that gained influences from a number of different elements, the Rococo Revival being only one of them
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The Rococo Revival and the Art Nouveau Movement
The 17 century, with the Catholic missionaries have been east, Chinese people from the religious figure in the oil painting came into contact with the West; the End of Qing Dynasty, the wide dissemination of Western painting in China, the Chinese artist to draw a number of outstanding creative methods China to enrich the creative portraits , the portrait began to integrate the arts of East and West Road.
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china oil painting portrait history
Chinese oil paintings in the new century, the first face today is the prominent problems brought about by globalization and cultural convergence trend. As a result of the powerful countries in the material and spiritual and cultural products of Western culture caused extensive expansion across the globe, making the country vulnerable after a long history of practice in the formation of culture and cultural patterns and digestion by the exclusion, character and spirit of the pursuit of cultural erosion and assimilation , culture and vitality of living space is gradually lost
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Arthur and Lucia Mathews Oak drop front desk c1910-1915 Californian husband and wife team Arthur Frank and Lucia Kleinhans Mathews were involved in a wide variety of decorative interior arts. In their time they produced art and design work for fine art painting, graphics, illustration, painted furniture, stained glass, picture frames and a number of other interior based accessories
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Arthur and Lucia Mathews and the Furniture Shop of San Francisco
Post 80’s art is the most valuable by Western avant-garde less direct impact on the arts. They are also the artistic temperament, as throughout the 80’s generation after generation characteristics, self-suffering and the visual characteristics of dignified. After the 80 oil paintings , sculptures and abstract art canvas art painting is almost re-created a new generation of self-characteristics: cool, cute, and transcendental illusion, self-centered, game sense and so on, have a pure visual power
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Post-80s artist group in china
Useing points and line of the screen as a screen artworks, the characters and scenes with a simple sketch of a general approach to give the audience a sense of time flow. The metaphor of the screen so that the surface calm, due to a sudden event, and become very strange and a sense of suspense, fully demonstrated his oil painting is photography, television, film and other media re-extension is revealed by the media and photo images of real deprivation, while maintaining a unique aesthetic painting charm
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Luc Tuymans – modern abstract art Psyche
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