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Virgin Mary with Saints Thomas and Paul. 

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Virgin Mary with Saints Thomas and Paul. 

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This art piece of the Virgin Mary with Saints Thomas Aquinas and Paul is probably intended for a small chapel, that symbolizes the holy Mother's spirit power and mercy, and her unique position to serve for man as a compassionate link to God. This also is a Symmetrical balance with a large figure in the center and smaller ones on each side and a vertical line bisecting the image. During the 1500’s they noticed that they added oil in at the bottom and after, the Museum acquired Bernardo Daddi's painting, is when they realized that the child was a later addition. I think it’s a beautiful art piece that has a story behind the art that is always interesting to me.

Madonna, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Saint Paul, Bernardo Daddi, about 1330

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/860/bernardo-daddi-the-virgin-mary-with-saints-thomas-aquinas-and-paul-italian-about-1335/

- Jailene Hermenegildo

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New York culture festival celebrates Antigone, an ancient heroine as relevant as ever.

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New York culture festival celebrates Antigone, an ancient heroine as relevant as ever.

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Carrie Mae Weems opens a four day festival of her art and other artists work, that are reflections of violence against African Americans and democracy. The main point of the event is a piece of a young women "who really wants to bury her brother with some kind of dignity, with a large portion of the society saying, ‘Yes but they don’t deserve to be buried at all’”. A play is involved and one of the questions it raises is, how do we respect the dead, and how do we accept or rebel against the power?
Another piece is of a Greek Tapestry of a landscape, and it deals with environmental destruction. These relate to today because we are learning the problems of discrimination and equality in our society.
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/new-york-culture-festival-celebrates-antigone-an-ancient-heroine-as-relevant-as-ever/
Jennifer Rodriguez

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Artist Max Hopper Schneider's work, titled Dielectrix I: Division Electrophorus, features two electric eels that change the lights based on if they are touching a metal plate inside their tank. Schneider explains the work isn't dystopian but about possibilities that could occur. I chose this article because it seemed more unique and creative of an idea; I thought it was fascinating. It connects to what we learned in class because an artist is trying something new and unheard of for what we think of for art today.

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http://www.artnews.com/2016/10/07/a-shock-to-the-system-at-team-gallery-max-hooper-schneider-lets-electric-eels-control-the-lighting/

Edit: By Thurston Johnson

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Carnegie Museum Sets Its Sights on $1 Million Kerry James Marshall Painting as Frieze Opens, Collectors Capitalize on Weak Pound 

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Carnegie Museum Sets Its Sights on $1 Million Kerry James Marshall Painting as Frieze Opens, Collectors Capitalize on Weak Pound 

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More than 150 booths of art dealers were set up for the  Frieze London’s VIP preview. Mass crowds formed for this event. The stave (red) was once worth €4.75 million a year ago is worth €3.95 million now. That's 800,000 pounds down from the price in only a year.  this is not a good thing for artists but it is good for the buyer.
http://www.artnews.com/2016/10/05/at-frieze-london-collectors-capitalize-on-weak-pound-buoying-sales-even-as-brexit-looms/

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Two Stolen Van Gogh Paintings Recovered in Naples

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Two Stolen Van Gogh Paintings Recovered in Naples

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In Naples on September 25 2016 two of Van Goghs lost paintings were found. They were both on the FBI's top ten unsolved. Although the investigation is still undergoing, authorities have arrested and convicted two suspects: Octave Durham who is known as the “the Monkey”, who was arrested in Spain, and Henk Bieslijn, who was caught in Amsterdam.  The theft in 2002 occurred between 7 am and 8 am as the museum was closed. It took two thieves less than 30 minutes to get inside of the museum, through a smashed window that immediately triggered an alarm, rush in and rip one painting off the wall each.
They left behind a cloth, presumably one used to break open the window, and the ladder and a rope which were used to scale the wall to enter, as well as to exit when they were ready.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/two-stolen-van-gogh-recovered-italy-677915

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THEFT! FORGERY! MURDER!: ART HISTORY’S GREATEST CRIMES

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THEFT! FORGERY! MURDER!: ART HISTORY’S GREATEST CRIMES

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Interesting article I found on Art thievery. Has a section on what we just talked about in class today.

(macomber)
http://www.artnews.com/2016/05/03/theft-forgery-murder-art-historys-greatest-crimes/

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The celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is doing something a little different this year. Kim Schoenstadt is asking other female artists to come together for the anniversary. Kim wants to take their pictures in order to represent the females in the art world. More details on the event are in the link. http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/calling-all-women-artists-the-brooklyn-museum-wants-to-take-your-picture/
Ally Legg

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I chose this because today we are dealing with lots of clowns running around and scaring people and when I first looked at this I immediately thought of a clown! Although the photographer (Rachel Mclean) was merely just taking a photo for reasons unexplained, I was surprised to find that she was representing Scotland, not Japan. https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2016/10/McClean.jpg

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DRAWING IS THE BEST VIDEO GAME’: AT A NEW SCHOOL LECTURE TONIGHT,
JEFFREY SCUDDER WILL BE MAKING TIMED DRAWINGS IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE



 

 

 

 

 

 

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DRAWING IS THE BEST VIDEO GAME’: AT A NEW SCHOOL LECTURE TONIGHT,
JEFFREY SCUDDER WILL BE MAKING TIMED DRAWINGS IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE



 

 

 

 

 

 

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As part of his lecture tonight at the New School’s Vera List Center for Art and Politics, Los Angeles–based artist Jeffrey Scudder will be creating three whiteboard drawings on the spot, each timed to be completed within a 20-minute period. As this happens, Scudder will be in conversation with Casey Gollan and Victoria Sobel, the recipients of the 2015–17 Vera List Center Fellowship. I found this interesting because it had to do woth video games and I am interested in those. Also it is weird to me how art can be compared to video games since they are very different.
http://www.artnews.com/2016/10/06/drawing-is-the-best-video-game-at-a-new-school-lecture-tonight-jeffrey-scudder-will-be-making-timed-drawings-in-front-of-a-live-audience/

P.S-sorry for no picture, I cant figure out how to get it to go onto this thing.

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DRAWING IS THE BEST VIDEO GAME’: AT A NEW SCHOOL LECTURE TONIGHT,
JEFFREY SCUDDER WILL BE MAKING TIMED DRAWINGS IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE



 

 

 

 

 

 

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DRAWING IS THE BEST VIDEO GAME’: AT A NEW SCHOOL LECTURE TONIGHT,
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As part of his lecture tonight at the New School’s Vera List Center for Art and Politics, Los Angeles–based artist Jeffrey Scudder will be creating three whiteboard drawings on the spot, each timed to be completed within a 20-minute period. As this happens, Scudder will be in conversation with Casey Gollan and Victoria Sobel, the recipients of the 2015–17 Vera List Center Fellowship. I found this interesting because it had to do woth video games and I am interested in those. Also it is weird to me how art can be compared to video games since they are very different.

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DRAWING IS THE BEST VIDEO GAME’: AT A NEW SCHOOL LECTURE TONIGHT,
JEFFREY SCUDDER WILL BE MAKING TIMED DRAWINGS IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE



 

 

 

 

 

 

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DRAWING IS THE BEST VIDEO GAME’: AT A NEW SCHOOL LECTURE TONIGHT,
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As part of his lecture tonight at the New School’s Vera List Center for Art and Politics, Los Angeles–based artist Jeffrey Scudder will be creating three whiteboard drawings on the spot, each timed to be completed within a 20-minute period. As this happens, Scudder will be in conversation with Casey Gollan and Victoria Sobel, the recipients of the 2015–17 Vera List Center Fellowship. I found this interesting because it had to do woth video games and I am interested in those. Also it is weird to me how art can be compared to video games since they are very different.

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DRAWING IS THE BEST VIDEO GAME’: AT A NEW SCHOOL LECTURE TONIGHT,
JEFFREY SCUDDER WILL BE MAKING TIMED DRAWINGS IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE



 

 

 

 

 

 

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DRAWING IS THE BEST VIDEO GAME’: AT A NEW SCHOOL LECTURE TONIGHT,
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DRAWING IS THE BEST VIDEO GAME’: AT A NEW SCHOOL LECTURE TONIGHT,
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As part of his lecture tonight at the New School’s Vera
List Center for Art and Politics, Los Angeles–based artist Jeffrey Scudder will
be creating three whiteboard drawings on the spot, each timed to be completed
within a 20-minute period. As this happens, Scudder will be in conversation
with Casey Gollan and Victoria Sobel, the recipients of the 2015–17 Vera List
Center Fellowship. I found this interesting because it had to do woth
video games and I am interested in those. Also it is weird to me how art can be
compared to video games since they are very different. 

 

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DRAWING IS THE BEST VIDEO GAME’: AT A NEW SCHOOL LECTURE TONIGHT,
JEFFREY SCUDDER WILL BE MAKING TIMED DRAWINGS IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE



 

 

 

 

 

 

As part of his lecture tonight at the New School’s Vera
List Center for Art and Politics, Los Angeles–based artist Jeffrey Scudder will
be creating three whiteboard drawings on the spot, each timed to be completed
within a 20-minute period. As this happens, Scudder will be in conversation
with Casey Gollan and Victoria Sobel, the recipients of the 2015–17 Vera List
Center Fellowship. I found this interesting because it had to do woth
video games and I am interested in those. Also it is weird to me how art can be
compared to video games since they are very different. 

 

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Best and Worst of the Art World this Week

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Best and Worst of the Art World this Week

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This article shows all the recent art events that have been good ad bad. Recent "best" events range from David and Victoria Beckham and their impressive art collection, to Martha Stewart's tweet about Snoop Dog. On the "worst" side, it ranges from one of Pablo Picasso's paintings being the center of a lawsuit, and the late artist Dash Snow's families lawsuit towards McDonald's for copyright infringement.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/best-worst-art-world-october-9-691502

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In London there will be an art show being held with pieces from both Willem de Kooning and John Chamberlain. "The art dealer Robert Mnuchin was testing his theory of parallels between the painter Willem de Kooning and the sculptor John Chamberlain by juxtaposing their work in his booth at Frieze Masters, the major art fair that opened here this week" ( Robin Pogrebin ).  This particular piece was created by Willem and is over 40 years old, but will be shown this week in a London art show. I find this piece interesting because it looks like it was created by a child, the title of this work is called, "Screams of Children Come From Seagulls." This piece is abstract and doesn't have much dimension, like some pieces we have studied from Picasso recently.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/arts/design/at-frieze-art-fairs-no-frenzy-but-a-sense-of-steady-activity.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign&action=click&contentCollection=design&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0

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Treasure Hunter Close to Finding $62 Billion Nazi Loot in the Czech Republic

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Treasure Hunter Close to Finding $62 Billion Nazi Loot in the Czech Republic

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This article is about how these treasure hunters are investigating leads to a Nazi loot. One claims have original documents the mention the items of the loot and the area map around it. The loot is rumored to hold chests of gold, diamonds, and even old masters. Which are painting down by those who worked in Europe before or around 1800, or a painting by the masters of their craft. These connect with what we are talking about in class with the start of World War II and the rise of Hitler. With Hitler's definition of what was real art and what was not. Perhaps this connects with precious old masters, maybe hidden within the loot.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/treasure-hunters-nazi-loot-czech-republic-691865
~Ashtyn Grogan

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Teenage Bedroom, there’s expressive beauty buried under all that clutter

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Teenage Bedroom, there’s expressive beauty buried under all that clutter

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For many Western teens, the bedroom is a sanctuary. It’s the only space in a shared home that can be groomed to match individual tastes and beliefs — or tastes and beliefs that are shared with whichever sibling you’re bunked up with. These flourishes often include band posters  photo collages, school books, comic books, makeup, trinkets, instruments, and clothes spilling over from closets, intentionally or due to a lack of space.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/teen-bedrooms_us_57f7e4d8e4b068ecb5de0eac?section=&section=us_arts

~Emilea Aitken

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Wallpaper That’s More Like a Painting:
Sarkos is a company that's releasing a new hand painted series of wallpapers called "Cosmos" , their goal is to replicate the soul paintings have. This relates back to our seminar where we discussed whether mass-produced art could be considered art or not.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/style/wallpaper-that-looks-more-like-a-painting.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign&action=click&contentCollection=design&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=12&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0

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Vilcek Foundation Lends Paintings to Georgia O’Keeffe Retrospective at Tate Modern

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Vilcek Foundation Lends Paintings to Georgia O’Keeffe Retrospective at Tate Modern

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In this article it talks about the new exhibition of Georgia O'Keeffe at the Tate Modern, London. It is the first time her work will be in the United Kingdom in 20 years and over 100 of her paintings will be featured there.
http://www.vilcek.org/news/current-news/vilcek-foundation-lends-paintings-to-georgia-o-keeffe.html

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Adrian Ghenie painting sells for record £6.2m at Christie's.

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Adrian Ghenie painting sells for record £6.2m at Christie's.

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Adrian Ghenie's painting Nickelodeon sold for more than four times higher than estimated. Dealers are saying that Ghenie is positioned to become a very popular artist and his fame is increasing. Nickelodeon is a very eerie art piece as seen below. It fetched 6.2 million euros from a European buyer in the auction.
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/back-to-business-as-usual-at-christie-s-in-london/

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Sued for $100 Million Picasso Sold by Collector Fleeing the Nazis

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Sued for $100 Million Picasso Sold by Collector Fleeing the Nazis

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This article states that Paul Leffman, a previous owner of Picasso's, The Actor, was forced to sell his collected artworks under duress as he fled the Nazis. This pertains to our readings and studies because of both the mention of Picasso and the price of his works, and the fact that this work was only sold because of the Nazis who probably would have otherwise destroyed it. Pictured below is Picasso's, The Actor.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/met-museum-picasso-nazi-restitution-lawsuit-680564

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Guerrilla Girls target super-wealthy collectors.

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Guerrilla Girls target super-wealthy collectors.

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This article talks about a group of feminists that are going to wealthy art shows and taking down and protesting these art shows that focus mainly on white male art. This relates to class because it seems like with each era there was always discrimination in the art world, it may not have been feminists fighting but their were some like the impressionists that stood up for their rights to paint what and how they wanted. (Ashley Reeder)
http://theartnewspaper.com/reports/guerrilla-girls-target-super-wealthy-collectors/

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American art goes beyond the US border: There’s no Trump-style wall at Frieze to divide artists from across the continent 

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American art goes beyond the US border: There’s no Trump-style wall at Frieze to divide artists from across the continent 

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I find this picture interesting as it shows some of our current issues in politics. It helps to show that artists will not be discriminated or kicked our for their differences in their ideas and styles in art.
http://theartnewspaper.com/reports/frieze-london-2016/american-art-goes-beyond-the-us-border/

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I think this is cool because it shows a time line of different art and it shows some of the art styles we have been learning in class. http://www.artnews.com/2016/10/07/then-and-now-picabia-grasshopper-of-modern-art/

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Lujan Rodríguez (I have another post below exactly the same but has the picture in it)
How This Company Helps Artists Facing Homelessness And Disability Paint Their Way To Stability

Liz Powers switched from her job as a case worker to run art galleries in shelters. She wanted to help people who were facing homelessness and disabilities by using their artistic talents to better their income. Liz and her brother then created "ArtLifting" a website that sells the art work of these people.
The theme of this story is very much like the brother and sister we talked about in class that would also help out struggling artist but they would buy their artwork instead. http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/255_143/57e55fb21700002a00ac6b11.jpg?kk5dpeject

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-this-company-helps-artists-facing-homelessness-and-disability-paint-their-way-to-stability_us_57e416c8e4b0e80b1ba0d26a?section=&section=us_arts

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This 30-foot butt was a sculpture done by Anthea Hamilton called "Project for a Door". The inspiration was "Italian artist and designer Gaetano Pesce’s 1972 proposal for a doorway into a Manhattan apartment building, that, shockingly, was never realized." The idea behind this sculpture is really dirty, but I couldn't be the only one to see this. Plus I thought it was funny
~Emilea Aitken.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anthea-hamilton-butt-project-for-a-door-turner-prize_us_57e927d2e4b08d73b832316f?section=&section=us_arts

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In 1924 the German artist and war veteran Otto Dix looked back at the first world war on its 10th anniversary, just as we are doing on its 100th. What did he see? Today there is a fashion, in Britain, to celebrate the heroism of our grandfathers and their hard-won victory of 1914-1918. It's as if the clock is being turned back and the propaganda of the war believed all over again. Even the German war guilt clause written by the victors into the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 has been turned into "fact" - after all, who wants to trawl through the complex causes of this conflict and face the depressing truth that it ultimately happened because no one in July 1914 understood how destructive a modern industrial war could be?

We need to shake off the nostalgia of a centenary's forgetful pomp and look at the first world war through fresh eyes - German eyes. For no other artists saw this dreadful war as clearly as German artists did. While British war artists, for example, were portraying the generals, Germans saw the skull in no man's land.

Der Krieg, the series of prints Otto Dix published in 1924, and which is about to go on view at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, is a startling vision of the apocalypse that really happened on Europe's soil 100 years ago.

A German soldier sits in a trench, resting against its muddy wall. He is smiling, but the grin is empty and hollow-eyed - for his face is a bare skull. He has been dead a while. No one bothered to bury him. His helmet is still on his skull, and his boots reveal a rotting ankle. In another print, a severed skull lies on the earth. Grass has grown on its crown. More grass resembles a moustache under its nose. Out of the eyes, vegetation bursts. Worms crawl sickeningly out of a gaping mouth.

Otto Dix's Skull, from his 1924 set of first world war drawings, Der Kreig Photograph: British Museum/DACS

Dix had seen these things as a frontline soldier. At the time, he later confessed, he did not think about them too much. It was after he went home that the nightmares started. In what might now be called post-traumatic stress, he kept seeing the horrors of the trenches. He was compelled to show them, with nothing held back.

The prints gathered in Der Krieg (The War) are just part of the hideous outpouring of images he unleashed. It was as if Dix needed to vomit his memories in order to purge himself of all that haunted him. He engraved these black-and-white vignettes just after painting The Trench, a horrific masterpiece that distilled the western front into one grisly carnival of death. The painting was hugely controversial, and in 1937 the Nazis included it in the notorious Degenerate Art exhibition that vilified modern German artists like Dix. The confiscated painting vanished during the second world war, perhaps burned in the bombing of Dresden.

Even with that loss, Dix's war art is a gut-wrenching act of witness. Yet he was not alone. He was part of a radical art movement that rejected the conflict and the European civilisation reponsible for it.

It was not at all obvious that a man such as Dix would create some of the defining pacifist images of the 20th century. In 1914 he was a fierce German patriot who joined up enthusiastically. He became a machine gunner and fought at the Battle of the Somme, efficiently mowing down British troops. He won the Iron Cross (second class) and began training to be a pilot. How did this courageous soldier turn into an anti-war artist?

To understand that, we need to comprehend that, during the first world war, a radical minority of Germans turned to artistic and political revolution, rather than nationalism. Like the British war poets, Germany's young artists came to hate the war, but unlike the poets, they organised to resist it.

Many simply could not take the front. Like Dix, the brilliant expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner joined up in 1914, but his mental health soon collapsed. In his 1915 painting Self-Portrait as a Soldier (currently in the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition The Great War in Portraits), he gives visual form to shell shock. The painter stands in uniform, his face yellow and eyes dazed, lurching like a sleepwalker, his right hand severed at the wrist.

'Giving visual form to shell shock' ... Ludwig Kirchner's Self Portrait As Soldier (1915). Photograph: National Portrait Gallery

Kirchner had not really lost a hand. The bloody stump he waves is an image of artistic and sexual despair - war has unmanned him. Kirchner's pre-war paintings were sensual primeval nudes, but in his 1915 self-portrait he has turned helplessly from a naked model. It is not only a hand that has been amputated, but his very life force.

Like Dix and Kirchner, the poet Hugo Ball wanted to fight. He failed the medical three times. Visiting Belgium so he could at least see the front, he was so shocked that he turned against war, fled to Switzerland with his girlfriend, cabaret singer Emmy Hennings, and in 1916 founded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. This was the birthplace of Dada, the most extreme art movement of the 20th century, which used nonsense, noise, cut-ups and chaos to repudiate war. "The beginning of Dada was really a reaction against mass murder in Europe," said Ball.

Dada was the counter-culture of the first world war, just as psychedelia was to be the counter-culture of Vietnam. At a time when supposedly rational decisions sent so many to their deaths - in 1916, the year Dada began, General Haig ordered an advance at the Somme that killed 19,000 British soldiers on a single day - Dada feigned madness. Its angriest practitioners were Germans.

Helmut Herzfeld wasn't so sure he wanted to be German, however. In 1916 he got so sick of the war's relentless propaganda that he changed his name to John Heartfield - a shockingly subversive adoption of the enemy's language. He got out of the army by pretending to be mad, and then, sent to work as a postman, threw away the mail to hinder Germany's war effort.

In 1919, at the First International Dada Art Fair in Berlin, Heartfield and another Dadaist, Rudolf Schlichter, hung a dummy of a German officer with a pig's face from the ceiling. It is impossible to think of Britain's generals being portrayed like this - but then Germany had lost, and Berlin was riven by revolution.

Dix also exhibited at the Dada fair. He got involved with this revolutionary movement after meeting its most charismatic exponent, George Grosz (much like Heartfield, he adopted the English "George" as a war protest). While Dix was at the front, Grosz was sending soldiers Dadaist "care packages" full of satirically useless stuff like neatly ironed white shirts.

George Grosz's Pillars of Society (1926) Photograph: Akg-Images/AKS0

At the 1919 fair Dix exhibited a painting of maimed war veterans begging on a Berlin pavement. The city was full of damaged men. In another of his Dada paintings, Card-Playing War Cripples, men breathe through tubes and use feet to hold cards - they are no longer men, they are collages.

For it took a new art to do justice to the Great War. So Dada invented photomontage, a shattered mirror of the violence done to bodies by war. At the Dada fair in Berlin this was made explicit when, over the broken bodies painted by Dix, a photomontage by Grosz of a man who seems horribly disfigured was inserted. This ruined face resembles photographs of the war's victims - until you realise the " Victim of Society" is nothing but an Arcimboldo head made of cut-out newspaper pictures.

German artists showed the war with utter clarity when others turned away. While the Dadaists were cutting up society, the war veteran Max Beckmann painted his grotesque vision of a world gone mad, Die Nacht (The Night). Yet their warnings went unheeded. In 1924 Dix's war engravings were shown in an anti-war exhibition. In less than a decade he would be living in internal exile, a banned "degenerate artist", while leaders with very different memories of the first world war laid the foundations of the second.

The truth survives. In his 1924 drawing How I Looked as a Soldier, Dix portrays himself holding his machine gun. He's unshaven under his helmet and his eyes are narrow slits. Dix the truth-teller looks back at Dix the killing machine.
* Otto Dix's Der Krieg prints are at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, 17 May-27 July.

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The first world war in German art: Otto Dix's first-hand visions of horror

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In 1914 Otto Dix joined the German army as a fierce patriot; two years later he was mowing down British soldiers at the Somme. Yet few artists did more to reveal the true horror of the first world war. Jonathan Jones chronicles a great pacifist rebellion

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Storm Troops Advancing Under A Gas Attack

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Otto Dix, a war veteran created this to reveal the "true horror" of World War 1. This particular time of the War when the Germans brought in poisonous gas as a weapon. This picture relates to what we are learning in History too because we are learning about World War 1.

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Madonna, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Saint Paul, Bernardo Daddi, about 1330 

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Madonna, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Saint Paul, Bernardo Daddi, about 1330 

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An art gallery in Madrid, Apertuna 2016, opens to three dozen participants. The gallery features many new conceptualization pieces as well as abstract. Artist display their own styles as they show off their pieces. I found this interesting because of some of the abstract art shown. I found it relevant since many paintings there involved aspects of cubism or conceptuallism.
https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2016/09/miguel-angel-barba-1.jpg

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https://news.artnet.com/art-world/madrid-gallery-weekend-is-refreshing-658538

Thurston Johnson

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I feel like this picture has a lot to do with what we are studying, this picture has soldier marching forward in the battlefield. also the blur of the painting is showing the advancement of painting and breaking the boundaries of painting during this time.

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I felt that this picture really fit with what we are studying in class, with the wars and all. In World War 1, millions of soldiers were killed in the line of duty, not to mention all the civilians that were caught in the cross fire of it all. Then there was the Centrialia Massacre were 4 people were killed and one of those four was brutally murdered. Although they weren't stuck in a thick book for about 200 years.

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Vincent van Gogh Was Definitely Crazy, but Doctors Aren't Sure Why

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Vincent van Gogh Was Definitely Crazy, but Doctors Aren't Sure Why

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Vincent van Gogh was not a mentally healthy person his entire life. In the article, medical professionals wanted to try and find out what exactly he had. Years before, many theories existed on what he had: bipolar disorder, depression, or schizophrenia. They ruled out schizophrenia because he had episodes of mental illness and was completely okay in between. One person also stated that foxglove could have helped contribute to the descent and potential suicide of Vincent van Gogh. This was related to how we discussed his lifestyle and what influence his artwork.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/van-gogh-mental-illness-cause-653141
(Sorry, I just figured out how to add a photo! ~Ashtyn Grogan)

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Miami’s Refurbished Stadium Will Be Decked Out in Street Art

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Miami’s Refurbished Stadium Will Be Decked Out in Street Art

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A dozen giant street-art murals, some up to 150 feet wide, by 12 artists, will be on view at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida when the venue opens to the public for the first regular home game of the Miami Dolphins’ season on Sunday.The project, which has been kept under wraps by the artists and the team until now, was commissioned by the Dolphins’ owner, Stephen M. Ross, and Goldman Global Arts, a new company dedicated to major art projects. The stadium has been under renovations in recent months that cost an estimated $500 million and included rebranding the venue with its new name. Emma Bigby
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PICASSO’S ELECTRICIAN RECEIVES 2-YEAR SENTENCE FOR POSSESSION OF 271 STOLEN ARTWORKS (This was Hannah by the way)

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PICASSO’S ELECTRICIAN RECEIVES 2-YEAR SENTENCE FOR POSSESSION OF 271 STOLEN ARTWORKS (This was Hannah by the way)

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Pierre Le Guennec, who was formerly Picasso's electrician, was found to have been in possession of  271 never before seen Picasso works. Pierre claimed that they were "gifts", but was found guilty of theft and was given a two year sentence. None of the works were signed nor dated leading to suspicion from Picasso's family, due to this being unusual for the late painter.
This connects to what we've been learning about, not only because Picasso is apart of this unit but also because that fact that these works of art were hidden away since the 1970's is somewhat similar to the Salon because those pieces of art that were refused never got public attention until later at the Salon des Refusés.

http://www.artnews.com/2015/03/20/picassos-electrician-receives-2-year-sentence-for-possession-of-271-stolen-artworks/

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Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art Wins $200,000 Don Tyson Prize From Crystal Bridges
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced today that the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C., has won the first Don Tyson Prize. The Archives of American Art is a great resource for many people. http://www.artnews.com/2016/09/21/smithsonian-institutions-archives-of-american-art-wins-200000-don-tyson-prize-from-crystal-bridges/

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Artist’s Depiction of Police Brutality Sparks Boycott at St. Louis Museum

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Artist’s Depiction of Police Brutality Sparks Boycott at St. Louis Museum

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Artist, Kelly Walker's exhibition causes some members of the black community to find deeply offensive for its representation of African-American.Kelly's intentions were to capture the way a single image can transform into a number of cultural contents and Kelly “has explored the manipulation and re purposing of images in order to destabilize issues of identity, race, class, sexuality, and politics.”
Kelly Walkers work ,parallel to "Warhol’s canonical 1964 painting Race Riot"  is silk-screened with smeared white and dark chocolate rotated in 90 degree increments with manipulations mask and a perishable material to censor the act of police brutality and alter power dynamic between the images subjects. This art is similar to what we have discussed in class  the layering of paints to create an illusion of texture and design.
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Some members of the black community in St. Louis, Missouri, are up in arms against an exhibition they find deeply offensive for its inclusion of images of African-Americans.

The exhibition, " Kelley Walker: Direct Drive," was organized by Jeffrey Uslip, chief curator at the Contemporary Art Museum, who has been in the position since January 2014. The works include images of police brutality toward Civil Rights protesters, silk screened with smeared white and dark chocolate.

Walker's work "interrogates the ways a single image can migrate into a number of cultural contexts," writes the museum, adding that Kelley "has explored the manipulation and repurposing of images in order to destabilize issues of identity, race, class, sexuality, and politics."

Several works in particular, including the multimedia Black Star Press, do not rest well with all viewers. As the museum describes it:

A parallel to Warhol's canonical 1964 painting Race Riot, Walker's Black Star Press series comprises images of racial unrest that have been digitally printed on canvas, silkscreened with melted white, milk, and dark chocolate, and rotated in ninety- degree increments. These manipulations mask and partially censor the act of police brutality with a perishable material as well as alter the power dynamic between the image's subjects.

The show opened almost exactly two years after the police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in nearby Ferguson, which led to several nights of sometimes destructive demonstrations in the city and was a key spark for the Black Lives Matter movement.

"This city is being ripped apart," gallery owner Philip Slein told Art in America at the time. "A chasm is developing in this already incredibly racist state."

Activist and artist Damon Davis has spoken out about the Walker show on Facebook:

Kelley Walker, a white man, takes images of black women, and photos of black people being attacked by police and dogs, and smears toothpaste and chocolate on the images. This work is offensive to black people, black women in particular, and the black struggle for freedom that we and our ancestors have been engaging in since this country was founded.

Davis creates activist works like an edition of prints showing women of color with fists raised (dedicated to Sandra Bland), a mock street sign reading "cops not welcome," and images of Tamir Rice and Trayvon Martin.

Several black staffers have called for Uslip's resignation. De Andrea Nichols, community engagement manager, posted to Facebook a strongly worded open letter signed by her, along with museum educator Lyndon Barrois Jr. and Victoria Donaldson, the museum's visitor services manager.

They also call for the removal of several works they call "untimely and insensitive." Walker's work, they contend, "triggers a retraumatization of racial and regional pain." Citing ongoing police killings of black men, they say that the museum's display of the work "positions the museum and its staff in implicit support and perpetuation of these societal ills."

In just the last few days, Terence Crutcher, an African-American man, was killed on video by police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and in Charlotte, North Carolina, Keith Lamont Scott was gunned down by officers who say he brandished a gun; the authorities have declined to release video of the incident.

The staffers also say they expressed serious reservations about the work to museum leadership during the planning for the show.

A September 17 artist talk only inflamed matters further, when Davis challenged Walker to explain his imagery.

"When confronted with an actual black person, Walker became flustered and angry and had no actual answer for why he was using these images," Damon Davis wrote. "When he couldn't answer my questions, the curator, Jeffrey Uslip, interjected and tried to explain for him. Walker and Uslip never answered my questions, and were both rude and condescending to myself and multiple people that asked questions that both related to race and not."

In an echo of public demands for police footage of the killings of African-American citizens, the open letter from museum staffers demands the publication of video of Walker's talk and his interactions with the audience.

Museum director Lisa Melandri took the unusual step of offering an unreserved apology.

"I acknowledge and recognize that was a difficult situation and that people who were asking questions weren't given answers," Melandri told the St. Louis American. "For that, I absolutely apologize. This is a space that welcomes questions and people who expect answers to their questions."

Walker has also issued a statement, provided to artnet News by the museum:

I deeply regret that a great deal of anger, frustration and resentment have developed in the St. Louis community as a result of my failure to engage certain questions from the audience during the public lecture at CAM last Saturday. The concerns were legitimate, so I regret that I did not answer them adequately at the time.

The KING magazine covers and Black Star Press works-two series among a broader body of work that deals with the circulation and recycling of images-are at the center of this controversy as they explore the politics of race. Although the works date from the early 2000s, they have been exhibited many times since then and I have also spoken about them in depth in prior artist talks and interviews, I should have been much clearer and more articulate about them. Given the painful recent history of the city, as well as the much longer history of violence and injustice directed at its African-American community, I should have been better prepared to address the subject matter.

I am a staunch advocate of social equality and civil rights in America. I am also an artist who seeks to create thoughtful, sometimes difficult dialogues about these issues. I have always hoped that these works, and the exhibition as a whole, would provide a forum for a conversation about the way American society gets represented in the media as images shift from context to context (newspapers, magazines, film, TV, etc.) and about how the representation of the body, particularly of the black body, is an exceedingly complex topic in American art and culture.

I hope that the St. Louis community will give my exhibition a chance to generate this conversation. I also hope that the community, as well as the museum, its director and its staff, will understand how much I regret the misunderstanding and the ill feeling caused thus far.

Melandri spoke to artnet News by phone Friday morning, after a panel discussion that, she said, started at 7 p.m. and lasted until 10:30, to discuss the calls for removal of the works and for Uslip's resignation.

"We made a commitment to listen to the community and weigh the consequences of the next step and the consequences of our actions, understanding the pain and hurt of our local community as well as the global implications of what it means to remove artworks from what we deem a safe space for ideas," said Melandri.
"Kelley Walker: Direct Drive" is on view at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis through December 31.

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Artist's Depiction of Police Brutality Sparks Boycott at St. Louis CAM

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Some members of the black community in St. Louis, Missouri, are up in arms against an exhibition they find deeply offensive for its inclusion of images of African-Americans. The exhibition, " Kelley Walker: Direct Drive," was organized by Jeffrey Uslip, chief curator at the Contemporary Art Museum, who has been in the position since January 2014.

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How This Company Helps Artists Facing Homelessness And Disability Paint Their Way To Stability

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How This Company Helps Artists Facing Homelessness And Disability Paint Their Way To Stability

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Liz Powers switched from her job as a case worker to run art galleries in shelters. She wanted to help people who were facing homelessness and disabilities by using their artistic talents to better their income. Liz and her brother then created "ArtLifting" a website that sells the art work of these people.
The theme of this story is very much like the brother and sister we talked about in class that would also help out struggling artist but they would buy their artwork instead.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-this-company-helps-artists-facing-homelessness-and-disability-paint-their-way-to-stability_us_57e416c8e4b0e80b1ba0d26a?section=&section=us_arts

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Victoria and Albert Exhibition Opens a 60's Treasure Chest

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Victoria and Albert Exhibition Opens a 60's Treasure Chest

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This is an exhibit that encompasses the late 1960's Artwork by expressing the youthful idealism and a darker period of violence.By  taking pieces of work from a 5 year time span where student riots, computers, NASA spacesuit, and other iconic relics are put together to better understand their impact modern times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/arts/design/victoria-and-albert-exhibition-opens-a-60s-treasure-chest.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign&action=click&contentCollection=design&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront

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MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH: BRIAN WHITELEY RETRIEVES HIS TRUMP TOMBSTONE FROM THE NYPD

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MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH: BRIAN WHITELEY RETRIEVES HIS TRUMP TOMBSTONE FROM THE NYPD

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Justine Pense

Whiteley made this tombstone because he felt like the other artwork against Trump was just surface level. Notice how there's no death date? This is his hope for change. Either for another candidate to win or for Trump himself to change. The piece was confiscated from Central Park, where it was on display, and afterwards, the police and even the Secret Service showed up to Whiteley's home. He described it as a "Welcome to my life" interrogation. “If Trump becomes President, God forbid, there will be a wealth of things to speak out about...ideally that doesn’t happen and I can retire this as a one-time political protest piece.” I feel like this connects to the era we are learning about because he is afraid of art being censored and people saying what people cant and can not see. Which, back then, is exactly what happened.
http://www.artnews.com/2016/07/20/matters-of-life-and-death-brian-whiteley-retrieves-his-trump-tombstone-from-the-nypd/

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‘Cosima von Bonin,’ Swimming Against the Tide

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‘Cosima von Bonin,’ Swimming Against the Tide

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Cosima von Bonin Is a cutting edge artist of our time, like the artists that made up the  Impressionists. She is deep seeding meaning into what seem to be cheap child toys or playground sculptures with bright goofy colors defying the standards of high end art. (Ashley Reeder) http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/arts/design/cosima-von-bonin-swimming-against-the-tide.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign&action=click&contentCollection=design&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0

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Study Claims Our Emotional Reactions Are Subdued When Viewing Art

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Study Claims Our Emotional Reactions Are Subdued When Viewing Art

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A recent study conducted at the European College of Neurpsychopharmocology has an interesting hypothesis, one based on Kant’s incantations on the sublime no less: whether ascribing to certain objects the label of “art” triggers a genuine neuro-chemical reaction in the brain. (news.artnet.com 9/24/16)
I found this very interesting because I didn't know that people could be influenced by art in that way. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/study-reveals-that-we-are-more-tolerant-of-art-659891

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Tyler Macomber.The analytic cubism is easy to identify in this painting by Howard Cook.  Very similar to the work of Picasso and Braque we just looked at in class. http://www.vilcek.org/collections/american-modernism/category/american-modernism-paintings/complex-city.html

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STROBE WARNING: PETER BURR ON HIS NEW VIDEO INSTALLATION, ‘PATTERN LANGUAGE’

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STROBE WARNING: PETER BURR ON HIS NEW VIDEO INSTALLATION, ‘PATTERN LANGUAGE’

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'Pattern Language' by Petter Burr comes from a video game named 'Aria End', that Burr is currently creating with a game designer, Porpentine. "It describes an abstract “aliveness” that exists within human behavior as expressed through a series of interconnected structural patterns. Proponents of the theory claim that it can be used by a wide cross section of people to solve complex design problems."(Artnews, 9/23/16)
http://www.artnews.com/2016/09/23/strobe-warning-peter-burr-on-his-new-video-installation-pattern-language/

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To Hell With Picasso, Who Was ‘Never a Good Artist,’ Said British Painter Alfred Munnings

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To Hell With Picasso, Who Was ‘Never a Good Artist,’ Said British Painter Alfred Munnings

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Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter (among other professions) who lived from 1881-1973, which happens to be around the time we are studying. We analyzed one of his works, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, and one or two others. This article contains information found in Alfred Munning's unpublished letters that portray his hatred for Modernism, and Picasso. This piece also mentions Winston Churchill, and his apparent hatred for the same things.
Featured below is Picasso's Tête de femme.
https://news.artnet.com/market/hell-picasso-never-good-artist-wrote-british-painter-alfred-munnings-657305

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Artist Creates Sculptures Exclusively from Lego Bricks

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Artist Creates Sculptures Exclusively from Lego Bricks

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Nathan Sawaya is an artist that builds three dimensional sculptures and large-scale mosaics. He recently came out with an exhibit called "The art of the Brick" , there are originals and there are also recreations. He's made recreations of pieces from Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and even Michelangelo. I was fortunate enough to actually go to this exhibit and it was amazing, I highly advise checking out his work!https://news.artnet.com/market/artist-creates-sculptures-exclusively-from-lego-bricks-102303

~Danielle Sternback~

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Yesterday the Miami Dolphins unveiled 12 new street murals as part of the renovation of Hard Rock Stadium. Over the past few weeks, nine artists have combined to create the murals. Five additional murals will be painted that will cover 30,000 square feet of wall. I find this interesting because it involves sports. I also found it relevant due to our recent studying of the mural.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/661712-661712

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Who Threw the First Punch?: Shana Lutker Stages a Surrealist Fight in Los Angeles

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Who Threw the First Punch?: Shana Lutker Stages a Surrealist Fight in Los Angeles

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Shana Lutker, took a fight that accord in Paris 1925, and restaged it in Los Angeles this September. I think it is cool how she is bringing the past back to life, through  reenacting fights such as this one.     http://www.artnews.com/2016/09/23/who-threw-the-first-punch-shana-lutker-stages-a-surrealist-fight-in-los-angeles/

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New research suggests Van Gogh 'cut off his entire ear'

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New research suggests Van Gogh 'cut off his entire ear'

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http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36772253
So Van Gogh, another artist we are studying, took his like in 1890. And supposedly cut off just his lobe of his ear 2 years before that after a mental breakdown. But, recent evidence shows that he cut his entire ear off. Dr. Rey discovered this paper that he had given to Van Gogh! And it shows a dotted line across his ear where he had planned to cut his ear off. Dr, Rey knew Van Gogh personally back then.

(BBC news)

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Vincent Van Gogh: Fully Painted Featured Film!!

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Vincent Van Gogh: Fully Painted Featured Film!!

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A group of Van Gogh devotees took their time to create the worlds first moving picture created just by paintings. The film consists of images and characters that Van Gogh has imagined during his life time. The story came from Van Gogh himself! Over 800 letters that he had written are the plot to the film these artists are creating!!

Loving Vincent

By clicking the link and the links within the article you can go more in depth in the creation and how it all came to be.

Very Interesting!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/van-gogh-documentary-to-be-first-fully-painted-feature-film-ever-made_us_56d4970fe4b0bf0dab32f466

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23 New "Geniuses" Pushing the Boundaries of Art and Science Today

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23 New "Geniuses" Pushing the Boundaries of Art and Science Today

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/macarthur-fellows-2016_us_57e2e192e4b0e28b2b51eb8d
The link leads to an article about 23 artists that are "breaking the rules" of art, similar to the artists we are studying. Their ideas are new and different, and they are making leaps and bounds in the art world. The article covers each of the 23 artists with descriptions on their work and the inspiration that led to it. Not all of them are the traditional painter that we think of when we hear the word "artist," but all of them are creating a unique form of art. (thehuffingtonpost, 9/22/16) Ally Legg

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APOCALYPSE NOW: MOMA’S BRUCE CONNER SHOW IS MIND-BLOWINGLY GOOD

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APOCALYPSE NOW: MOMA’S BRUCE CONNER SHOW IS MIND-BLOWINGLY GOOD

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This article announces an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art which features the work of Bruce Conner (1933–2008). An artist who worked during the Cold War, Conner’s work "touches on various themes of postwar American society, from a rising consumer culture to the dread of nuclear apocalypse. "  (Artnews, 8/26/16)