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Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:15:58 +0300

branduponthebrain: Laura (Shûji Terayama, 1974)

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:01:16 +0300

branduponthebrain:

Laura (Shûji Terayama, 1974)

Winslow Homer The Fox Hunt (1893)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:04:02 +0300

Winslow Homer

The Fox Hunt (1893)

George Boorujy Ring-billed Gull (2007)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:02:00 +0300

George Boorujy

Ring-billed Gull (2007)

Suddenly, a wild Siobhan Fahey appears!

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 08:01:41 +0300

Suddenly, a wild Siobhan Fahey appears!

blackantlers23: So the Palm Springs Art Museum (the place that...

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:42:07 +0300

blackantlers23:

So the Palm Springs Art Museum (the place that allowed a work of plagiarism [based on photo 1] to be exhibited and only added ‘tribute to Trevor Brown’ after I phoned in to complain) held its annual Fine Arts Creativity Awards/Exhibit today. It’s a student exhibition where students from the various local high schools and the community college submit their work, with only a few being selected.

I exhibited my ram photograph seen in photo 2 as I felt it dealt with the exhibit’s theme well (“power”). I also carefully wrote an artist’s statement for it. I was awarded a $300 prize for it by the Western Art Council, which I’m quite happy about. It’s all going back towards art making.

Though I must say I was disappointed at what got the top prizes ($1000). Photo 3 is literally just some pipe, a gear, and a wheel with some horsehair. The girl who made it is usually a horrible rip-off of Jackson Pollock (imagine his paintings in neon colors or metallic paint). It also looks like a penis.

Photo four is what got the top prize for the high school division. It just looks like something you would find on some teen’s flickr or deviantart account. It’s really disappointing because the best pieces I saw got ‘honorable mentions’ at most.

Photo five got an ‘honorable mention’ for ‘interpretation of the theme’ and it just makes me laugh.

I probably sound like a complete snob, but what can I say, I just don’t understand the judges of this museum.

I think it’s good to say what you feel about these pieces. They’re not someone’s hobby drawings on DeviantaART anymore; it’s supposed to be a serious art exhibition - albeit a student exhibition, but still. You have the right to state what you think and that’s not snobby at all.

Despite being based in Europe, in this country the articles seen as “art critique” seem like “art reviews” to me at their very best. Everything seems to lack perspective. If a piece of mine has failed, why should everyone just smile and nod at it? I’d like to know about it at least.

Congratulations for the prize! I’m glad you’ve gotten such opportunities to exhibit your work, as publicity is always publicity.

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Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:16:48 +0300

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Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:48:22 +0300

dad is showing me a document about Scott Walker. yay!

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:12:00 +0200

dad is showing me a document about Scott Walker. yay!

Le Loup et L’agneau by ~emychaoschildren

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:51:47 +0200

Le Loup et L’agneau by ~emychaoschildren

Tenhi, “Kielo”

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:33:41 +0200

Tenhi, “Kielo”

Akseli Gallen-Kallela Kalman kukka (1895)

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:28:00 +0200

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Kalman kukka (1895)

The Sampo (1959)

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:56:00 +0200

The Sampo (1959)

wildhotels: Oramunde (Emlen Ettting, 1933, available here)

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:06:00 +0200

wildhotels:

Oramunde (Emlen Ettting, 1933, available here)

Nathan Bishop, Skeletons in Black

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 03:45:33 +0200

Nathan Bishop, Skeletons in Black

move bw by ~LittleMine

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:07:55 +0200

move bw by ~LittleMine

Hardware (1990)

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 07:07:00 +0200

Hardware (1990)

…and danger was near. by =JapPieter

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 07:00:42 +0200

…and danger was near. by =JapPieter

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Sun, 04 Mar 2012 06:59:39 +0200