art

Edith Wharton, the American writer, said: "art is freedom of the spirit", although if you are looking for a less poetical approach, you might prefer a dictionary: "the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria."

That means everything from paintings to comics, modern dance to ancient cave images. Art can be made out of precious metal, out of found objects, or out of thin air.

Bloggers writing about art might be asking what their taste says about them, trying to sell their own work, setting out their plans, or reviewing what they've seen. Or they might be making recording the moment on their site.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “art”

• in Lifestyle
  The Benefits of Integrating Art into the Classroom
  benefits of an art education include improved reading, language, math, thinking, and social skills
  by alicarnold / on Apr 9, 2013
• in Gaming
  Video Games Awards Shows a Changing Medium
  Video games need to move out of these awkward teenage years if they want to be a serious form of entertainment.
  by geotrax / on Dec 9, 2012
• in Politics
  Glenn Beck Submerges Obama Figurine in Fake Urine As Art Stunt
  Glenn Beck's recent stunt sought to prove that the Left had hypocrisy concerning censorship. It didn't quite turn out that way.
  by weenwee / on Nov 28, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “art”

 

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  The Skywhale hot air balloon created to celebrate Canberra‘s centenary has finally been launched in Hobart. The balloon is part of the Dark MOFO winter festival but its launch was delayed for several days because of rain. It was inflated near Hobart’s cenotaph, watched by about 50 people and creating a spectacle ...
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• Two Palestinian Writers Refused Visas to Travel to a Contemporary Arab Art Festival in the UK

  
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  Ali Abukhattab and Samah al-Sheikh, two Palestinian writers based in Gaza,  have just recently been refused visas to travel to the UK. These two writers had been invited to speak at a contemporary Arab art festival in London. However, it [...]
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• Movie Posters of Post-War Germany

  
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• VIDEO: Making my Disney-inspired Haunted Mansion art; talking about why we love the HM

  
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• Outsider artist Noah Erenberg’s imaginative paintings

  
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  Noah Erenberg, from Isla Vista, California, recently created a series of expressionistic paintings of faces from his imagination. Noah (challenged with autism) has a vivid sense of colour and form and recreates his beachside neighborhood in paintings, drawings and text work. He was recently asked to join the Elizabeth ...
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• Wendy Mayer For TAB

  
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  Wendy Mayer, an amazing sculptor has taken part in our TAB exhibition due to open next week and was the first to get her tennis ball back to us. The ball was barely recognisable covered in hair and part face with just the same slightly strange air that many of... Read More → The post Wendy Mayer For TAB ...
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• Albrecht Dürer and 20th and 21st Century studies on the proportions of the human body

  
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  HAS the human body changed. In Albrecht Dürer’s study of the human body, the figure seems natural. Compare and contrat with Erin’s updated version below:   This next image is from Adolphe Armand Braun’s  Hieroglyphic or Greek Method of Life Drawing , published in 1916.   Erin updates :
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• Shubbak festival: a refuge for Arab culture at a troubled time

  
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  How can a festival celebrate a region gripped with conflict? Omar al-Qattan explains Shubbak, Londons Middle Eastern extravaganza These are troubled times to be putting on a festival celebrating a culture that is, on several levels and in different regions of its rich geography, tearing itself apart. Three ...
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• Shubbak festival: a refuge for Arab culture at a troubled time

  
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  How can a festival celebrate a region gripped with conflict? Omar al-Qattan explains Shubbak, Londons Middle Eastern extravaganza These are troubled times to be putting on a festival celebrating a culture that is, on several levels and in different regions of its rich geography, tearing itself apart. Three ...
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• 1/8 Kirigaya Suguha PVC

  
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  Alter has commenced preorder for this lovely scaled figure of Kirigaya Suguha, Kirito’s diligent cousin from the anime series Sword Art Online. She is wearing a simple red jersey and posed seated on the veranda just like one of the scene. She is scheduled for release in Nov 2013, and will be retailing for 8,190 ...
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• Maurice Sendak Illustrates Tolstoy

  
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  Sometimes a great bottle of wine or a handmade candle makes the perfect hostess gift. But when you need something extra special, I think Ive found a winner.
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• MINI PACEMAN - KYLE HUGHES-ODGERS

  
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  You may not have seen this unless you live in Sydney. Great piece by one of my fav street artists Kyle Hughes-Odgers (aka Creepy), check it out, very cool... MINI Paceman Art Series - Kyle Hughes-Odgers from Dan Sharp on Vimeo . The MINI Paceman Art Series sees five different artists interpret the Paceman ...
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• Newcastles Ryder Architecture celebrates 60 years of modernism

  
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  Its founders trained with Lubetkin and Le Corbusier. But while some of the companys important early buildings are protected, some are being pulled down to make way for new homes In pictures: view David Bilboroughs gallery of Ryder buildings In 1953, two young architects, Peter Yates and Gordon Ryder, bumped into ...
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• Newcastles Ryder Architecture celebrates 60 years of modernism

  
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  Its founders trained with Lubetkin and Le Corbusier. But while some of the companys important early buildings are protected, some are being pulled down to make way for new homes In pictures: view David Bilboroughs gallery of Ryder buildings In 1953, two young architects, Peter Yates and Gordon Ryder, bumped into ...
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• Ryder Architecture - in pictures

  
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  Photographer David Bilbrough documents six decades of the north-east firms classic buildings        
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• Ryder Architecture - in pictures

  
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  Photographer David Bilbrough documents six decades of the north-east firms classic buildings        
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• Ole Martin Lund Bø | Arcademi

  
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