Category Archives: SWIMMING IN ART

(Photo taken with permission.) REMY WITH SPOON – Pre-animation sculpture to visualize the leading character in “Ratatouille” by Disney/Pixar Films, sculpted by Greg Dykstra, currently in the traveling museum exhibition (The Science behind PIXAR – photo taken with permission). In “Ratatouille”, the plot follows a rat named Remy who dreams of becoming a chef and […]

PHOTO REALISM This watercolor was painted by artist M. Baum. From a distance the scene looks photographic, but when you get next to the artwork, it appears our DNA that naturally appreciates realism in art. In a private collection. \————/ Cleaning the Mirror #1(1995) Marina Abramović b. 1946, Belgrade, Yugoslavia Five-channel color video installation with […]

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Urban Light Chris Burden (United States, Massachusetts, Boston, 1946-2015) United States, California, Los Angeles County, 2008 Sculpture (Two-hundred and two) restored cast iron antique street lamps 320 1/2 x 686 1/2 x 704 1/2 in. (814.07 x 1743.71 x 1789.43 cm) Urban Light is made possible by Willow Bay and Bob lger, and is open […]

Use the arrows in the upper left corner to look 360 degrees around the room. Spin to the right, then look up, then look down. You are inside the museum VIRTUALLY!           🙂 (Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Toward the end of her life, Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) reflected, “All photographs—not only those that are so called ‘documentary’…can be fortified by words.” A committed social observer, Lange paid sharp attention to the human condition, conveying stories of everyday life through her photographs and the voices they drew in. Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures, the first major MoMA […]

This Denver Arts Festival brings together artists from across the USA Every Fourth of July weekend, Denver Colorado hosts the Cherry Creek Arts Festival in it’s upscale Cherry Creek shopping district. It is a very competitive, juried festival and the artists are selected from around the country. The jury selects the artists based on the […]

Denver Photographer Jim Milmoe notices compositions as he drives, walks and travels. Then with a precise crop through the viewfinder and a quick click of the shutter a “Photo Painting” is created. These photos are abstract in design, but one could not call them non-objective because they are not inventions of the mind, but real […]