Jack's Pixelated Adventure: October 2013

Friday, October 25, 2013

Glasstire Blog Review

Blog: Glasstire

Article: Return to Earth at the Nasher Sculpture Center, 10-22-13

The Policeman, 1950 Seto stoneware 13 3/8 x 8 3/4 x 5 1/8 in. (34 x 22.2 x 13 cm) The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York

This blog is all about visual art in Texas. The blog as a whole was fairly easy to navigate but it seems very crowded at the homepage. There is so much going on that the eye almost seems to be overwhelmed. This blog posts everyday and it is an art and photography blog.

The article Return to Earth at the Nasher Sculpture Center is about a ceramic sculpture display there at the Nasher Sculpture Center. The title of this showcase was Return to Earth: Ceramic Sculpture of Fontana, Melotti, Miró, Noguchi and Picasso, 1943-1963. The blog post was by Lucia Simek, who was very thrilled by all of the pieces. She speaks passionately about a few of the works in this showcase including Even the Centipede, which is a work of brown stoneware objects that have been fastened to a vertical wooden pole like vertebrae forming a spine. She also speaks about the above picture, entitled The Policeman, and how it looks as if a baton is dangling in the center, ready to be used.

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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Lenscratch Blog Review

The title of the blog to review this week is entitled Lenscratch.

The title of the article is Tami Bone: Of Magic and Myth.

This blog is very easy to navigate as it has recent articles all appearing on the right. It is visually appealing and easy to read through. They post fairly often and focus on recent art news.

The article is about the latest work by Tami Bone entitled Mythos. The artist was born in South Texas and now lives in Austin, Texas where she uses photography to express herself and tell her story. She likes to combine her personal life stories with folk lore to give her photos a unique feel. She has recently won many awards including Best of the Best Emerging Fine Art Photographers by BW Gallerist.

Her work, Mythos, is all about her childhood in South Texas but is filled with great mystery. In her works, she is trying to break the boundaries of her "normal" through her imagination. This work shows her belief that our stories, whether true or imagined, have the power to mold our lives until it inevitably becomes our life.