#art 21

[fair-itself]

Anyone who has PBS and is interested in art, or not interested in art, or confused by art, or has a deep understanding of art, should watch Art 21. It's one of my favorite things in the world. I just watched an episode where an artist was like "I have an exhibit where I deep-fry flowers in batter," and the show is like "Okay, tell me about that," while taking it 3,000% seriously, and then she does and now I'm like "I totally get it." Basically any other resource about art that's accessible to laypeople would feel a need to joke about it, which is sometimes fine, but sometimes just serves to obscure the actual point. It's just really important to me as a human who, like all humans, has a relationship with art

[nerdnag-makes-art]

"I have already lost everything: my family, my identity, my past... What else is there to lose?"

My FE3H OC, [NAME REDACTED]!

[thoughtportal]

As a child, artist Hank Willis Thomas was told he stared too much and asked too many questions. Today, these very attributes shape his artistic practice, which pivots on the theme of perspective. “All of my work is about framing and contexts,” says the artist. “Depending on where you’re standing, it really shapes your perspective of the truth, of reality, and of what’s important.” Reading Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida, Thomas was struck by the idea of the punctum, the part of an image that impacts and stays with the viewer. Drawing from his background in photography to augment his work with other media, the artist’s sculptural works like Liberty (2015) isolate this punctum and translate it into three-dimensional space.

In his research, Thomas encountered the 1967 photobook by Ernest Cole documenting South African Apartheid. In particular, the artist was struck by an image of 13 coal miners being stripped nude for a medical examination. Rather than reproduce their exploitation and objectification, Thomas denies the viewer their naked bodies in his sculpture Raise Up (2014), instead isolating the miners’ heads and raised arms, confronting viewers with their gaze. Shortly after Thomas created Raise Up, the phrase “Hands up, Don’t shoot” became a popular protest chant in the wake of the police murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MI. As he mines history through photography, Thomas draws connections between past and present to illustrate the continuing logics of oppression that shape Black life. 

At Walla Walla Foundry in Washington, molten bronze is poured into specially designed casts to create the 609 individual pieces that will be welded together to form The Embrace (2023), a public memorial to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King to be installed in the Boston Common. The sculpture depicts two sets of arms intertwined in a loving embrace, referencing a photograph of the Kings embracing after Martin won the Nobel Prize in 1964. Envisioning his work as being as much about each of us as it is about the Kings, Thomas creates space for the public to engage with the sculpture physically and ensures it is accessible to as many people as possible. “I’d like to believe this is just the beginning of a new way of thinking about how public space can be viewed, and how we reflect on the past with care and concern for the future,” says Thomas.

[hinata-boke]

he does not wish to be held

[mienar]

close-ups of a commission i did a while back! 🌱

instagram | shop | commission info

[mmmairon]

2h practice featuring Shadowheart

[keysandcrosses]

drawtober day 21-31

[pezhead]

And that's when Raph realized he liked calling Mikey his little brother~

[sunclown]

Hah?

[ghostbite0]

21 trio -> baby trio

aka i wanted to draw sanemi giyuu and obanai as little guys

[pachimation]

a secret rendezvous in fontaine

[tristan-arcelona]

This is cool try it

[jorbinkles]

"The Hunter" jujutsu kaisen fanart. Ink and paint on paper.

Honestly one of my favorite scenes from the series, the new episode adapted it so well. I might do more fanart of this scene tbh (since I'm not particularly fond of how this turned out)

[thoughtportal]

Chris Ware, known for his New Yorker magazine covers, is hailed as a master of the comic art form. Ware’s complex graphic novels, which tell stories about people in suburban midwestern neighborhoods, poignantly reflect on the role of memory in constructing identity. Stories featuring many of Ware’s protagonists—Quimby the Mouse, Rusty Brown, and Jimmy Corrigan—often first appear in serialized form, in publications such as “The New York Times,” the “Guardian,” or Ware’s own ongoing comic book series “Acme Novelty Library,” before being organized into their own stand-alone books.

[bigfatbreak]

Hi, I just wanted to say that I absolutely love your Viceroy AU, and if I may ask, what was Wang's reaction when Sabine died? Did he considered to have her buried in Shanghai? She was his sister, after all...

to be honest, no one took Sabine's death well. Sabine's will involved her being cremated, and she requested for some of her ashes to be transported back to Shanghai for her family. The rest are in an urn in the Dupain-Cheng household.

As adults, Sabine's and Tom's families did their best to hold up well, not for themselves, but for Marinette, who was so inconsolable about her mother's death, both sides of the family were concerned she was going to literally die of heartbreak.

[almalvo]

MIGUEL O'HARA SKETCHDUMP 080123

I took a break from drawing for a week to refresh a little. So when I came back, Miguel happened. You think you followed me for Miguel, do you? Well. I'm bout to make you so sick of him, on god 😭

[Loose sketchdump -]

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