28Th October 2012 - Who's Made A Seat This Week?

Quilts past times Kaffe Fassett

I've been a huge fan of Kaffe Fassett for ages - I recollect his talent amongst color together with mixing patterns is absolutely phenomenal.

In 1988 Kaffe became the kickoff living cloth artists to induce got a ane homo exhibit at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The exhibition attracted such crowds that the Museum doubled attendance figures during the run together with has since visited Finland, Holland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Australia, Canada, USA together with Republic of Iceland (where 5% of the full population attended.)

Back inwards the days earlier tenosynovitis laid in, when I could withal traveling steal together with  hold knitting needles, I loved to knit his designs.  If y'all are inwards whatsoever means interested inwards color and/or textiles and/or patchwork/quilts together with so y'all should definitely induce got a peek at his website.

Anyway - his quilts were my top dog argue for going to the RHS London Autumn Shades show at the RHS Halls inwards Westminster lastly calendar week - every bit at that topographic point were to live a issue of Kaffe Fassett quilts on display.

I walked inwards together with was absolutely amazed to honor they'd hung the quilts inwards mid-air so both sides could live seen together with y'all could learn a unopen expect without at that topographic point beingness whatsoever danger of them beingness damaged inwards whatsoever way.

Kaffe Fassett Quilts hanging inwards mid air at the RHS London Autumn Shades Exhibition
- also reproduced below every bit images inwards the residue of this post

So quilts past times Kaffe Fassett volition punctuate this post every bit I recollect they're wonderful!

Going to the exhibition also meant that I got to run into 2 to a greater extent than RHS Gold Medal winners - this fourth dimension for botanical photography - see RHS Gold Medal winning Botanical Photography for the images of the photographs.

Coming out of that is a post side past times side calendar week almost Juan Sánchez Cotán (1560 - 1627) the creative individual whose fashion influenced Clay Perry's run when photographing heritage fruit together with vegetables.

I was intrigued to honor when I got abode that Clay Perry used to photograph the avant garde fine art scene inwards the 1960s - including Robert Rauschenberg together with Yoko Ono - this is a link to Clay's photos of Yoko Ono together with her Half-a-Room installation inwards 1967.  I also discovered that he also photographed R&B bands inwards the 1960s who later on became rather famous! Cue moody photos of Eric.

So I dug a chip farther together with establish out that he had been a educatee of Ifor Thomas who was a pioneer instructor of photography every bit fine fine art (from this interview).  That to me came over really clearly inwards the photographs inwards display at the exhibition.  I ever tell that I induce got no difficulty identifying Gold Medal run every bit it ever stands out.

Artists together with Art Blogs
Art History

On Fri I tried an experiment - which seemed to learn an enthusiastic reception.  Who painted this? #1 is a novel together with occasional challenge on this weblog for all of y'all who similar fine art history.  It generated a lot of guesses - most of which were correct. However ane individual got at that topographic point kickoff amongst all the required answers - together with that was Vivienne St Clair (A Painted Postcard).

Watch out for to a greater extent than of the same inwards this novel occasional serial of posts!

Drawing together with Sketching

• This is the Moleskine Community's Artworks Gallery - 7,423 artworks induce got already been posted to the gallery
• I went to Sheffield Park but only tackled a minor sketch of the spill colours - Birch, Witch Hazel, Acer Palmatum, Fir - at Sheffield Park

Landscape Art

• Two Autumn Landscapes this calendar week on The Art of the Landscape
• "October" - Limbourg Brothers (Autumn Landscape #11)  This ane is of peasants sowing grain inwards the centre of Paris inwards the early on 1400s. In the background is the Louvre Palace - together with I recollect I've discovered iii reasons why it's included.
• Breugal "The Return of the Herd" (Autumn Landscape #12)

Painting

• The joy of prototype squares
• This is the weblog of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters inwards Watercolour - although they fail to tell us that on the forepart page!  It also seems to induce got started together with stopped - more's the pity.  I'm certain at that topographic point must live somebody upwards inwards Scotland who could learn it upwards together with running again.  I know I;d beloved to reckon to a greater extent than watercolours past times Scottish painters.
• Oil Color Palettes is a blog past times Aaron B Miller which is alone devoted to the palettes of color chosen past times dissimilar artists when prototype inwards oils.  If you;d similar to portion your palette y'all only demand to contact the author.  In the meantime, here's
• Pierre Bonnard's Palette
• Richard Schmid's Palette
• Normal Rockwell's Palette
• So who's doing Pumpkin Paintings for the slap-up Halloween Spendfest?

Photography

• The Guardian has:
• developed a novel "hub" for all its photography - together with directly has a photography blog
• published an article which asks  Photography: is it art?.  It relates to a new exhibition at London's National Gallery

Art Business & Marketing

• On Mon I posted a committee to the USA together with wrote a weblog post about Exporting Art (Part 1): The Invoice.  You tin sack download a proforma export invoice from my website for free
• Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for Oct 22: Mobile Email Newsletters

Art Economy

• MAKE SURE YOU READ THIS ONE: One of the Guardian's most pop posts this calendar week was this ane almost Dave Hickey - Reenter the Dragon

Dave Hickey condemns globe he says has give-up the ghost calcified past times every bit good much money, celebrity together with self-reverence

Art Competitions

• Two posts almost Call for Entries to give-up the ghost Wildlife Artist of the Year - run past times dissimilar organisations!  See
Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013 - Call for Entries #1: David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation which features Karen Lawrence-Rowe who won lastly year's £10,000 prize
• Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013 - Call for Entries #2: BBC which features Heather Irvine's winning pic The Last Winter for the 2011 exhibition which portrayed an sometime moose.

Art Exhibitions

• Richard Hamilton: The Late Works (10 Oct 2012 – xiii Jan 2013) at the Sunley room inwards the National Gallery inwards London
• Happy Birthday Edward Lear is on at The Ashmolean inwards Oxford together with celebrates the 2ooth anniversary of the nativity of Edward Lear - which inwards role also celebrates his run every bit an creative individual every bit good every bit an author.  David Attenborough rates him every bit ane of the greatest ever ornithological illustrators.  His treasured collection of Lear's fine lithographic plates are to live reproduced inwards a facsimile express edition mass - read Attenborough's treasured Lear aeroplane prints reproduced for Folio Society
• I was tipped off almost a remarkable exhibition by Georgie Meadows at the Wellcome Collection of stitched drawings featuring elderly together with demented people inwards Monmouth.

Art Societies

• The Natural Eye - the 49th Annual Exhibition of The Society of Wildlife Artists opens to Earth on 1st Nov at the Mall Galleries
• This is the lastly calendar week of the Autumn Exhibition of the Royal Watercolour Society at the Bankside Gallery which closes side past times side Saturday.  View the slideshow here.

Art Bloggers

• The Rochford Art Trail opened yesterday together with runs until side past times side Saturday.   Read to a greater extent than almost it on Paul Alcock's blog Paul Alcock - Paintings together with Drawings

Art History

• It's such a compassion that Art History News has neither a feed nor a means of leaving comments.  Apparently the writer likes it similar that. http://www.arthistorynews.com/index.php - such a compassion it doesn't appear to induce got a feed that industrial plant or whatsoever reach to go out comments.  Here's an instance of ane of the posts 'Thought Out', together with why fine art history needs to change

Art Materials

• In The Studio: Tacita Dean, artist "'I experience evicted – both from my studio together with from my medium"

Art Videos

"Work" by Ford Maddox Brown is ane of my favourite paintings & ane of the greatest paintings of the Victorian 19th century - there's only so much inwards it! This is a 3 infinitesimal video - Pre-Raphaelites: Curator's selection - Ford Maddox Brown's 'Work' - together with his explanation of the run past times ane of the curators of the Pre-Raphaelite exhibition at Tate Britain

Colour

• This is a word of Artists Pigments 1780-1880: History together with Uses by Mara F. Szalajda.     There's 6 pages inwards total. 

Copyright

• The weblog of the Citizen Media Law Project has posted a useful link almost copyright inwards relation to Pinterest amongst item reference to fair work (where instance police clit is quoted) relating to the pinning of other people's images on Pinterest (ie does this infringe their copyright or not?). There's a really useful laid of summary guidelines at the end - see Pinterest: Fair Use of Images, Building Communities, Fan Pages, Copyright.   

A hypothetical “Company” has plans for its Pinterest “community”, together with inwards particular, wonders almost these situations:

• Using Images of Identifiable People
• Fair Use together with Images
• Trademarks: When is a “Fair Use” Argument Strongest?
• Why Attribution together with Linking to Original Sources is Important

Techies

• How to Protect your Personal Data from Facebook Applications your Friends Use on the Facecrooks site is absolutely ESSEntial reading for anybody using Facebook - I managed to figure outmost of this for myself but at that topographic point were ane or 2 things which were fantabulous recommendations 

and finally......

What else could it live but The 10 Best Scary Paintings - for Halloween!

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