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This photo series is truly wonderful; a beautiful discourse on contemporary womanhood. I highly recommend all 5 pages.

May I introduce you to Art from Code, the website with my favorite design/color scheme of all time. It has some really interesting stuff on all that nerdy art that I like so much; using numbers and data to derive art forms.

Check out this post on Sound as Objects. I think it’s pretty badass.

11th Century Tibet Illuminated Manuscript.
Alternatively titled, South Asian: Insanely Hip Since Always.

Early Christian art is pretty much the best ever. I stopped by the Art Gallery of Ontario again today to revisit some of the fantastic pieces they have there. Their medieval and pre-renaissance collection is really stunning. It’s funny how art has come full circle in a lot of ways. I’m often struck by how contemporary work from this time period seems. What I love about Early Christian art is that everything is not quite right, and in some cases, totally wrong. Bodies are too slender, too long, too contorted. Important figures are too large and everyone else, hilariously small. No one has really grasped perspective yet, everything is guided in gold, and sometimes it’s just beautiful. Plus there is something about tempera that makes you feel like you were really there.

The Academic style is one that I have a deep moral and social disagreements with. And yet, I love it very very much. Must be all the pretty girls.

On Thursday, I went to an art show at Magic Pony with the guys from work. A previous intern was showing some art there. This store is very interesting. They sell toys that only Kristen Ward would buy and they show art that only Kristen Ward would make. The show I saw was called “Lonely Robots.”

While I was there, I not only ate some delicious hummus, I also flipped through a Mark Ryden book. I hear he is a big name when it comes to this style of art (whatever style that is). I really really like his stuff. I like it because it has the realism of Venetian Renaissance paintings and the surrealism of contemporary art. His website is recommended.

you can watch it.

i am pretty sure this is the point where derivative work ceases to be derivative. a fantastic display of transformative collage.

this is my new favorite artist. she contemporizes vintage embroidery with her own feminist imagery. they are usually cheeky and often risque, and always really really awesome. she describes it as a collaboration, where “the fabric becomes the foundation for a fantastical, exotic extrapolation.”

her work poses the questions: “what roles do women play in society? who do we want to be? what kind of relationships do we want? who are our role models?”

Orly Cogan’s Website: definitely check out Woman’s Work, Child’s Play, and Bittersweet Obsession.