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Story Bean Giant
The greatest gift to humanity is imagination. Something I could get lost in forever, but forever was not always a focus. You see, when I was younger, I was told to get my thoughts together to be an adult. Studying, getting good grades, and be gainfully employed so that I could teach another generation how to do the same thing. As the next generation came about in mid-2009, late 2011, and early 2014, I realized that I liked them just the way they were. I loved that their imagination was so contagious that it ignited my imagination.
By LATANYA N CHATFIELD5 years ago in Humans
A Famous Female Sculptor
After Barbara Hepworth Modernist Bronze Sculpture Barbara Hepworth studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art along with Henry Moore. In 1928, Hepworth and Moore, along with her friend and fellow artist Richard Bedford, became the leaders of this new method of direct carving sculpture. In 1932, she and her then-husband Ben Nicholson mounted a sculpture exhibition declaring their move to abstraction and joined the group, Abstraction-Création, and became the driving force behind constructivism. When World War II hit London, Hepworth escaped to St. Ives in Cornwall, but she worked to form an artist group that brought international recognition to St. Ives artists after the war. Hepworth exhibited extensively and was committed to producing many public works, including One Shape for the United Nations in 1964. Barbara Hepworth sculpture for sale are available online. Her work included smooth curves and a creative exploration of negative space.
By Jacob Walker5 years ago in Humans
summer
Grab a handful of dust and ink in spring and summer, spread a bunch of flowers and herbs to make notes, smoke Vitamin milli, move according to the wind, or slow or urgent, or walk or grass, calm and quiet, shallow summer is clear. The mountains and rivers under the pen are beautiful and beautiful; Bodhi in my heart is quiet and safe.
By Mel Shropshire5 years ago in Humans
To Make, To Change: The procession of slow craft
My Grandma was a Da Vinci of Home Ec and related arts. She cooked, she painted, she made porcelain dolls, she quilted, and she taught. I looked up to her immensely. I wanted to be able to do all the things she could do, and I wanted to have all the things that she had. An entire room for sewing, a cupboard full of paints, a house full of crafts and knick knacks and treasures; I felt like she had the resources and ability to create anything she wanted, and that thrilled me. Every summer she would get in the car and drive two hours to help my siblings and I create our own sewing projects. One of those summers, when I was nine or ten, I made my first quilt. A lap sized quilt that I dreamed up all by myself. I was so excited about it! I found some fabric that looked like a wooden fence and I had a vision! I was going to make a quilt with a dog in front of a fence that said “Who let the dogs out?” I loved making that quilt, choosing the accent fabrics, sitting beside my grandma learning how to topstitch around the letters I had painstakingly traced and cut out, and then finally, after grandma had left to go home, hand sewing the final side of the binding. At this point I had no understanding of the context behind the song. I thought it was actually about dogs, and that therefore my quilt was really quite clever.
By Kait Leininger5 years ago in Humans
Painter of Petulant Girls
Yoshitomo Nara, Knife Behind Back (2000). Image from Sotheby’s. Yoshitomo Nara never considered being a painter until he was 18 years of age. Indeed, even while considering workmanship in Germany, he was uncertain about picking painting as a vocation. It was not until 1993 that Nara began seeking after painting genuinely. Before long, he got his first task to create special banners for the Swedish film Lotta Leaves Home. During this time, the craftsman fostered his unmistakable style: childish compositions of creatures and kids. Obliged to American twee and Japanese kawaii, these works portray a scope of enthusiastic intricacies, from disobedience and protection from thought and quietness.
By Jacob Walker5 years ago in Humans
Paper Opus. Top Story - June 2021.
Streaks of grey across a page, zigzagging here and there like the winding pass of a cliffside road. A random assortment of lines, each perfectly imperfect, curve and weave in and out of each other. Step back, and the basic form of a face appears, rendered in the faint traces of graphite. It is the bare bones, like a skeleton, waiting to be fleshed out. An array of drawing pens lay out on my lap, their permanence looming over me like a rain cloud hangs over a forest desperate for water. With a gentle sigh, I select one, raise it to the paper, and begin.
By Robin Laurinec5 years ago in Humans
Live, Shearly
“Happiness” – what a simple, yet complex concept? But what does it really mean? Who defines it? You do. To me, happiness means having the courage and desire to be yourself. Using vulnerability as the paint and craft box, and not allowing anyone else’s opinion to influence or exceed your own (especially not to the detriment of yourself), is the key.
By Tamila Kianfard 5 years ago in Humans
With Cotton, Christopher Martin Tells a Story of Race in America
As a tattoo and textile artist, Christopher Martin is importantly guided by the tradition of folk art. His reverence for text, appreciation for the history of his material and careful collection of imagery are powerful reminders of how folk and outsider art traditions can be reinvented for new generations, new eras. Martin’s work is the stark, blunt immediacy that challenges the weight of our world with naked solidarity.
By Christopher Martin5 years ago in Humans
