cavetocanvas: Zao Wou-Ki, The Sailboats, 1952
jenecioart: Familiar 15x20, oil and acrylic on board
cavetocanvas: Richard Prince, Untitled (cowboy), 1989 From the Metropolitan Museum of Art: In the mid-1970s Prince was an aspiring painter who earned a living by clipping articles from magazines for staff writers at Time-Life Inc. What remained at the end of the day were the advertisements, featuring gleaming luxury goods and impossibly perfect models; both fascinated and repulsed by these ubiquitous images, the artist began rephotographing them, using a repertoire of strategies (such as blurring, cropping, and enlarging) to intensify their original artifice. In so doing, Prince undermined the seeming naturalness and inevitability of the images, revealing them as hallucinatory fictions of society’s desires. “Untitled (Cowboy)” is a high point of the artist’s ongoing deconstruction of an American archetype as old as the first trailblazers and as timely as then-outgoing president Ronald Reagan. Prince’s picture is a copy (the photograph) of a copy (the advertisement) of a myth (the cowboy). Perpetually disappearing into the sunset, this lone ranger is also a convincing stand-in for the artist himself, endlessly chasing the meaning behind surfaces. Created in the fade-out of a decade devoted to materialism and illusion, “Untitled (Cowboy)” is, in the largest sense, a meditation on an entire culture’s continuing attraction to spectacle over lived experience.
ashmackenzie: Seeking Substance  Technology has made the process of finding information incredibly simple, inhibiting our capacity to become truly knowledgable. Part of “Dangerous Ideas”, my thesis work exploring controversial concepts proposed by various scientists and intellectuals, using visual metaphors to investigate how these ideas can make us so uncomfortable. Check out the OCADU Illustration website for more stuff from all of this year’s thesis students!  -  More thesis work  -  Prints  -
womenwhokickass: Aya Kamikawa: Why she kicks ass She is the only openly transgender official in Japan at this point, and the first to seek or win elected office in Japan. She won a four-year term as an independent under huge media attention, placing sixth of 72 candidates running for 52 seats in the Setagaya ward assembly, the most populous district in Tokyo.  In April 2007, she was re-elected to her second term, placing second of 71 candidates running for 52 in the same ward assembly.  While the government announced that they would continue to consider her male officially, she stated that she would work as a woman.  She is devoted to work for various groups, the disabled, single-parent families, homeless people to evening junior high school students, LGBT people and to improve rights for women, children, the elderly.  She strives to give support for these people and bring positive changes which would help them in society.  She was also a committee member for Trans-net Japan (a self-support group for transgender people) and organised meetings and social events to give support and symposiums to raise the public awareness.
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Show your kids you appreciate the sublime power of a well-placed curse by protecting — no, by exalting — its rarity.

The Art of Cursing — The Kids Are Alright

GREAT article on Medium today.

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unwrittennature: Glacial Valley by David DuBois on Fivehundredpx.