Rio´s Grafitti - Poem Street Walls

Muros de Giz or Poem Walls is a great carioca streets initiative. People do graffttis on street walls
leaving a chalk part for passersby to write a poem or a phrase.

Later, the walls are photographed and post in FLICKr for backup reference.

The walls is frequently cleared to give space for new writtings.

Wall Phrase:

"O sonho é uma caixa fechada sem paredes"

The dream is a closed box without walls..

 

"O som pertence ao silêncio,

O silêncio imprime o tempo,

e edifica o espaço."

"The sound pertains to the silence,

silence imprints the time,

and edifies the space"

  Check Muros de Giz´s FLICKr HERE!

Project 5am the yellow book - by Jason Haye

The Yellow Book

On occasion we have an idea that is so clear and simple and elegant hat we are astonished, as if a rare and precious meteor fragment just landed at our feet. We pick it up and examine it closely. And we ask ourselves, where could this have come from. Looking back to the blue sky we marvel. But we can never figure out what to do with the idea. Some meteors become doorstops or paperweights. The same is true for these special thoughts. We marvel at their novelty for a while and then tend to forget them. But ideas, like a seed crystal, need to be nurtured so the can grow and influence us. An idea with beautiful symmetry must be planted deep in the mind with long and considerate reflection. Then it can be the seed crystal of thought that will grow, reflecting internal beauty and geometry.
- The Structure of Delight


New Project 5am album.... The Yellow Book


"Leaves sail to fall
Green dismembered, Brown reformed
Wiser and stronger"


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* This post was written by Guest Columnist Jason Haye

Phil Hansen - Twin City Based Artist

Phil Hansen's art is amazing and instigating. He knows how to argument the current social and political moment in his art. Hansen is also doing one of the recent trends in the art world, document his art making in a performance video and post it in Youtube. I have compiled his great videos here along with some interviews to Axioms and CNN.

"He now works as an X-ray technician but spends all of his spare time and money on his art. His work and the way it is presented has given him a large following.

His breakthrough piece was a time-lapse video of a two-day project called Influences. He painted thirty pictures on his torso, one over the other, each picture representing an influence in his life. After it was completed, he peeled the layer off and cut a silhouette of his own profile. The uploaded video was streamed more than a million times on the Web, with process and final piece clearly revealed"

Wikipedia

The time stand still


A Moment

He has broadcasted his phone number via the internet and asked people to call him and tell a moment that changed their life. All of these moments were written over the course of 136 hours of
which he didn't leave the work space except for restroom breaks.

Does Paint really need a brush?


Worms


Michael Jackson Dance Painting


Daily Axioms (Axiom Marketing Communication)

Twin Cities based artist Phil Hansen stopped by Daily Axioms' Phone Booth to discuss how social media has taken his art from his studio to global audiences. Charlie Hobart interviews this unique artisan about his style, motivations and what's next.

Phil Hansen at CNN



Phil Hasen LINK

Sly Underwear - Australian Underwear

Born amidst a flamboyant and forward thinking youth culture on Australia’s eastern shores, sly underwear is the alternative for those wanting to look and feel good from the bottom up.

While there's virtually no end to the variety that can be found in the world of women's panties, men's underwear has traditionally stayed within the same, limited range. Aiming to encourage fashionable males to begin thinking “outside the jocks,” Australian Sly Underwear has rethought the undergarment with a fresh take on youthfulness and style.

With a wide range of designs including one pair that looks like it's made from denim, Sly Underwear's product line focuses on three styles: the “workhard” version designed for everyday wear without any leg ride-up; the “playharder” model with bold graphics and longer legs; and the “resteasy,” with a generous cut and breathable fabric. All include at least one leg pocket and fabric is a blend of cotton and elastane. Coming soon is a line for women, according to Sly's latest catalogue. Pricing begins at AUD 19.95. In addition to donating 1,500 pairs of underwear to victims of Australia's recent floods, Sly is currently also donating AUD 2 from every garment sold online toward recovery efforts, it says.

Sly Underwear is currently available from the company's online store as well as through select Australian stockists. Retailers around the globe: time to revitalize men's underwear in your part of the world?

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Group Of Minds - Art Marketing Consultants

In this webisode, Ron Evans introduces the monthly web video series from Groupofminds.com Arts Marketing Consultants, and curate an inspirational message from Ben Cameron, of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. He has a powerful message that I think you'll enjoy.

GroupOfMinds is a diverse network of seasoned for-profit and non-profit marketing professionals who have a passion for creating a thriving cultural community through the use of technology.

To quote Rene’ Magritte, “Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.” It is that spirit that drives us to apply marketing science and experimentation to the good cause of promoting arts and culture, and to strive for increased understanding, participation, and appreciation of arts and culture in our world.

Groupofminds has the knowledge and know-how to expand artwork to the new communication channels of today's audiences. And that means meaningful experiences, enthusiastic recommendations, and audience members who attend again and again. LINK 
 

Fernando Botero - Colombian Artists

If you dont know Botero´s corpulent figures and work yet, you should!

With this post, I will try to show you a little bit of this artist´s impacting work.

His work is shown in 46 museums throughtout the world.

Mona Lisa (1963)

Fernando Botero Angulo (born April 19, 1932) is a Colombian figurative artist, self-titled "the most Colombian of Colombian artists" early on. He came to national prominence when he won the first prize at the Salón de Artistas Colombianos in 1958. Working most of the year in Paris, in the last three decades he has achieved international recognition for his paintings, drawings and sculpture, with exhibitions across the world.

In 1948, at the age of 16, Botero published his first illustrations in the Sunday supplement of the El Colombiano daily paper. He used the money he was paid to attend high school at the Liceo de Marinilla de Antioquia. From 1949 to 1950, Botero worked as a set designer, before moving to Bogotá in 1951. His first one-man show was held at the Galería Leo Matiz in Bogotá, a few months after his arrival. In 1952, Botero travelled with a group of artists to Barcelona, where he stayed briefly before moving on to Madrid. In Madrid, Botero studied at the Academia de San Fernando. In 1952, he traveled to Bogotá, where he had a solo exhibit at the Leo Matiz gallery. Later that year, he won the ninth edition of the Salón de Artistas Colombianos. He has had more than 50 exhibits in major cities worldwide, and his work commands selling prices in the millions of dollars.

Una familia

Mano Grande (1981)

Style

Botero is an abstract artist in the most fundamental sense, choosing colors, shapes, and proportions based on intuitive aesthetic thinking.While his work includes still-lifes and landscapes, Botero has concentrated on situational portraiture. His paintings and sculptures are united by their proportionally exaggerated, or "fat" figures, as he once referred to them.

"I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as a painter, but finish my work as a sculptor taking delight in caressing the forms." -- Fernando Botero

So, why large figures?

Botero explains his use of these "large people", as they are often called by critics, in the following way: "An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it."

In a series of paintings and drawings, artist Fernando Botero reflects

on the 2004 prisoner abuse scandal at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.

Abu Ghraib´s Series

 

When we think about the Colombian artist Fernando Botero, most of us visualize his roly-poly people flaunting their fat, their fashionable headgear, their cigarettes and cigarette holders, their excess. I never thought of these as political images until I saw Botero's Abu Ghraib series in which hooded men dangle, upside down, and hideous dogs claw and growl at manacled prisoners arranged into pyramids and bleeding on each other.

 

Check out a conversation between Fernando Botero and Robert Hass, Professor of English and Poet, UC Berkeley:

 

 

This is an one hour conversation in Berkeley with Botero and Robert. You will enjoy to listen to them talking about art !! This is a must listen!

                                                                 Colombiana (1991)

I Musicisti

Museo Botero in Bogotá

It has also been said that the pictorial language of Botero evokes the musical language of Mozart. This is especially evident in his paintings of musicians. It is a subject that, along with gay scenes of couples dancing, the artist returned to often. Indeed, these pictures, full of life and movement, provide an ideal opportunity for Botero to create dynamic compositions in which his characters play, dance, and sing, usually within a defined environment that gives context and frames their activity.

Paintings and drawings of guitar players, flutists, violinists, singers are scattered throughout the artist's oeuvre. One also finds still lives of musical instruments: a guitar placed on a table, with the musical sheet peeking below; or a cello in a corner, waiting to be played. In these paintings the instrument becomes the primary subject for the artist. Botero recognizes that the beauty of music is due as much to the instrument as it is to the musician. In fact, as the artist himself has said, "If I went to a remote place, in a short time I would get used to the silence and, most probably, would stop painting."

A cat on a Roof (1978)

Fernando Botero portrayed Pablo Escobar's death in one

of his paintings about violence in Colombia

A parody with Botero´s Colombian Family (1999) including Quentin Tarantino

   

Check the Museum Syndicate for his paintings (LINK) 

Google Images of Fernando Botero (LINK)