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The hand of a working artist

Posted on July 27, 2016 by jyourist
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“Theory of Memory” by Louise Glück

Posted on February 18, 2016 by jyourist

Long, long ago, before I was a tormented artist, afflicted with longing yet incapable of forming durable attachments, long before this, I was a glorious ruler uniting all of a divided country—so I was told by the fortune-teller who examined … Continue reading →

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Nidaa Badwan

Posted on June 22, 2015 by jyourist

Nidaa Badwan is a Palestinian artist from Gaza. In November 2013, she was harassed by some Hamas officers when she was working with some youth in an arts program and was questioned about why she was hanging out with males and why she … Continue reading →

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365 Paintings for Ants

Posted on September 23, 2014 by jyourist

Lorraine Loots, artist from South Africa, creating one miniature each day. An impressively disciplined and wonderful project. (Another link from Michael –Thank you, yet again.)

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What more do you want?

Posted on July 29, 2014 by jyourist

JB and I drove to the Milwaukee Art Museum last week to see the Wassily Kandinsky Retrospective. The show was put together by the Pompidou Center in Paris of pieces donated to them by Kandinsky’s widow that he had personally kept … Continue reading →

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s “Summer”

Posted on July 22, 2014 by jyourist

Presently in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, this painting of “Summer” is from Arcimboldo’s original Four Seasons, painted in 1563. This is the only version with both the artist’s name and the date “woven” into the collar and shoulder of the … Continue reading →

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Glass Pyrograph drawings

Posted on July 15, 2014 by jyourist

Etsuko Ichikawa uses hot glass to create this very effective and powerful calligraphy. The work in performance is even more riveting. Born in Tokyo (1963), she presently lives and works in Seattle.

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Mary Delany’s Flowers

Posted on July 6, 2014 by jyourist

I just finished the book The Paper Garden by the Canadian poet Molly Peacock about an 18th century woman on the fringes of aristocracy in England, who, in the last decade of her life, invented the technique of collage, creating 985 collaged images … Continue reading →

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Koji Kakinuma

Posted on June 26, 2014 by jyourist

Calligraphy and lettering have always held a magical place in my soul. I have written before about the fact that my father was a sign painter (a job no longer really needed with the advent of technology) and how mesmerized … Continue reading →

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Johannes Stoetter

Posted on May 5, 2014 by jyourist

These are the amazing body-painting creations of the Italian artist Johannes Stoetter. (The woman as parrot at the bottom is incredible.) (Thanks to Writing Without Paper for the lead to this artist.) 

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