“Someday, my android’s gonna come, dammit!”

No joke. Usually curators try to scam you out of 30 bucks or more… or for those of you surfing craigslist often, they advertise nonstop and seek to stick you in some shitty space on a piece of foam core in the middle of a rave so that after paying a $100 registration fee, you can have your heart and soul trampled or ignored along with a ton of other artists who were likewise SCAMMED.

Unlike that lovely scenario, this one is legit. 5 dollars gets you space on a nice clean, white wall against hardwood floor in a professional, yet artistic setting. Good luck, Ya’ll. The curator tells me they may extend the call throughout the coming week, if there is enough demand for it.

Online is probably the best global piece of Art.

Really, surfing the stupid things that people post online can be just as stimulating as browsing a hall of modern paintings. The tangibility shifts, but the mental stimulation (because that is what image targets) is either similar or higher online than off.

Yes, interaction is valuable, and many people view art with others or speak with others at galleries. But we’re talking about the impact on the individual here. The image, the object between four right-angles. Look at this juxtaposition! There is an immediate reaction of the whole followed by the associations of each image… a complex impact. Walking through a gallery of 2D pieces can tweek the mind just as much as any digital one-liner can.

I propose a gallery of “Stupid Internet Stuff”, as it could be the light-hearted answer to the art world. Seriously, the economy of Art takes itself too seriously. It’s a business of high money and higher thinking… but sometimes it can be artistic still to just enjoy reacting to things that were not produced by trained minds. Enjoying life, it’s okay to explore instinctive reactions to things.

arthistoryblog:

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850), currently containing over 23,200 images. Picture commentaries, artist biographies are available. Guided tours, period music, catalogue, free postcard and other services are provided.

How to navagate the site:

Enter and click on A-Z to search an artist.  Once on the page, note on the left is the “Bio” button and on the right is “I” for information on the selected image.  Also note the “Glossary” button on top and next to it “Music” to pair it with the proper music for the time.  When I taught at CSULA, I always had music playing before class to set the mood.

This is my favorite image site, I only wish it went throught to Modern Art as well.

Sharon Fitzgerald, MA

Mine is a strange word.

theories-of:

Jason Hopkins, Biostructure 2, 2009

Jacks, games, kids frames, bubblegum, silver bone, smooth strong, abalone, tic tac toe

• some paintings de moi.
• we’re in a love/hate
• relationship.

test post.

let’s see how it goes

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