Underwater Photos That Mimic the Look of Baroque Paintings
Hawaii-based photographer Christy Lee Rogers specializes in creating dreamlike photos of people underwater. Her project Reckless Unbound shows people swirling around one another while wearing colorful outfits. The photos are reminiscent of the paintings of old Baroque masters, who would often paint people floating around in heavenly realms.
Rogers creates her photos in swimming pools at night. The scenes are illuminated with bright off-camera lights, and the shoots often last two to four hours each.
Christy Lee Rogers reshapes the boundaries between contemporary photography and painting, with her series Reckless Unbound. While provoking the audience with vivacious movements and purpose, she also stirs the viewer’s memories of baroque painter Pieter Paul Rubens and his Massacre of the Innocents.
Without the use of post-production manipulation, Rogers’ works are made in-camera, on the spot, in water and at night. She applies her technique to bodies submerged in water during tropical nights in Hawaii. Through a fragile process of experimentation, she builds elaborate scenes of coalesced colours and entangled bodies that exalt the human character as one of vigour and warmth, while also capturing the beauty and vulnerability of the tragic experience that is the human condition.
You can see more of her work over on her website.
Words are obsolete.
So you want to...be an arts educator. ⇒
New blog post! In this week’s “So you want to…,” Director of Education and Kidspace Laura Thompson talks about her family of artists and museum technologies.
…But museums will have to change to take advantage of the turmoil roiling our colleagues in education. We’ll need to be open and available. We need to let our collections be used by others for their ends. That means sharing online collections and images as open data, being open to collaborations, letting go.
It means that we need to break down the walls that separate curatorial expertise and educational expertise within the museum. Curators and curatorial knowledge will have to be open to the public. The one rule of the web is disintermediation: no more gatekeepers. Curators will need to be open directly to their audiences. Museum educators will need to know collections and content. Those jobs will merge as the museum opens up…
-On the Center for the Future of Museums blog, Steve Lubar discusses the role of museums in a new world of education, and describes how opening up is key to success.
Read the entire post, “Museums: Essential Elements in the New World of Education.”
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Art History is Actually Hilarious - Laura Javier.
A Senior Thesis project at Washington University in St. Louis: a satirical guide to 25,000 years of art history for everyone who fell asleep during slide lectures and missed the comedy. Completely unabridged, semi-critically acclaimed, and perhaps a little facetious. Laser printed on Mohawk 80lb glossy cover, Japanese side-sewn with a soft cover. [SLIDES]
the art world according to emoji
Everyone’s reblogging it - because it’s awesome.
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In all honesty: if vaguely historical elements get you excited to learn the actual history that your favorite video game/show/novel/comic book/etc draws from, then I am glad for it.
It’s not about what “gets you into” history, it’s about what you learn once you’re there. I think the danger of the modern (mostly US in my experience) school system is that we belittle people for choosing the “wrong” ways to find their passions, interests, and subjects for learning. You’d be amazed to find out what you can approach or be introduced to in less traditional means.
Children who hate “reading books” but like comic books? Should be exposed to comic books with quality narratives, comics written after classics, etc, not just told to “suck it up and read”. Folks who watch Avatar the Last Airbender, and want to know more about the writing they see the characters reading would do well to learn about Chinese calligraphy in history, or to look up asian art, or to go further and view the way buddhist ideals are referenced. People who are passionate about Bollywood films might find they’re passionate about Indian culture as a whole, might want to know the historical precedent for ideas or attitudes they’re exposed to.
Put it another way (with a western focus): approximately how many people went to see Les Miz and then thought, “Well, I might want to know a little bit about French History to really grasp what that was based on.”?
So one of my favorite films is Red Cliff, and many of my Chinese friends told me it was historically inaccurate and was thus displeasing. Well, true, the accuracy isn’t fantastic, but on the whole, I enjoyed the films anyways, and then went and learned about the actual battle at Red Cliff. You can separate fact and fiction, and you can recognize games/shows/movies/etc aren’t historically accurate but still want to know what the truth behind all that was.
Academic snobbery has an unfortunate habit of stifling intellectual curiosity if it comes from “low culture” first. But we’re all exposed to popular culture all the time, in many ways. If you choose to use your pop culture interests as a springboard for your intellectual curiosity because you know those aren’t historically accurate - that is, you seek out real sources, academics, books, scholarly works, etc - then I see nothing wrong with it at all.
In fact, by doing so, you’ve chosen to make yourself a critical, intelligent, analytical, and curious human being, which I would argue is the basis of all learning.
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An early #FashionFriday treat…
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THE DAILY STORY:
A History of Fashion and Art Collaborations
Over the past decade the number of collaborations between fashion designers and contemporary artists has increased to a dizzying degree—in fact, the marketplace is now saturated with unique hybrid efforts of this kind. While the crossover of fashion and art is hardly a new phenomenon, the nature of these partnerships differs greatly from those of the past. To cast some light on this evolution, we took a look back at how the relationship between fashion and art has changed over time. [Read more on Artspace]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/2e63aba9c8b291e639a64ce2f1be9aa4/tumblr_mhv0vnqJmy1qlx7ako1_500.png)
An early #FashionFriday treat…
THE DAILY STORY:
A History of Fashion and Art Collaborations
Over the past decade the number of collaborations between fashion designers and contemporary artists has increased to a dizzying degree—in fact, the marketplace is now saturated with unique hybrid efforts of this kind. While the crossover of fashion and art is hardly a new phenomenon, the nature of these partnerships differs greatly from those of the past. To cast some light on this evolution, we took a look back at how the relationship between fashion and art has changed over time. [Read more on Artspace]
When it’s young, a red dwarf star frequently erupts with strong ultraviolet flares as shown in this artist’s conception. Some have argued that life would be impossible on any planet orbiting in the star’s habitable zone as a result. However, the planet’s atmosphere could protect the surface, and in fact such stresses could help life to evolve. And when the star ages and settles down, its planet would enjoy billions of years of quiet, steady radiance.
(via Earth-like planets discovered right next door to Earth | Smithsonian Science)
I can’t get enough of MoMA’s archival photos! Definitely follow Installator on Tumblr!
“William S. Rubin, Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture and director of the exhibition “Frank Stella: Paintings,” and the artist Frank Stella during the installation of the exhibition. 1970. Department of Public Information Records, II.C.180. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York”
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“The artist working on the installation of the exhibition, “Alexander Calder.” September 29, 1943 through January 16, 1944. Photographic Archive. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.”
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