Bunny Jumps

stardustdiamondrust:

Oklad ( precious metal icon cover ) of the trinity Icon by Andrei Rublev.

Moscow, 1599-1600

presented by Boris Godunov to the Trinity Church of the Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery for Andrei Rublev’s Trinity icon

It covered the painting completely except for the angels’ faces, hands, and feet.

For the revetment Gold; gilt silver; filigree; niello; enamel; pearls and precious stones: 31 diamonds, 74 emeralds, 7 rubies, 44 sapphires, 2 rubellites, 86 spinels, together with garnets, sapphirines, quartz, and chrysoprases

chaosnewsinc:

ohmondieuarchitecture:

The Royal Palace of Caserta (Italian: Reggia di Caserta) is a former royal residence in Caserta, southern Italy, constructed for the Bourbon kings of Naples

Royal Park of the Palace of Caserta - Diana and Atteone Fountain

(Fuente: ohmondieuarchitecture)

101l:

painted-bees:

katyamola:

fyeahartstudentowl:

bigbigtruck:

juliedillon:

romy-chan:

I made this comic solely to explain how the interview went, so please ignore how ugly it looks. This was easier than trying to just write it down for me.

I am a very emotional person especially when I’m nervous, so this event hit me quite hard.

More news soon.

Oh honey. Oh god. I’m so sorry.  Okay. This is not a school you want to associate with. These are bad people. They are not better than you. I don’t care how prestigious they think or say they are. Going there would have been a waste of your time, because you are so much better than anything they could offer you and they do not have a fucking clue what they are talking about. Trust me. I struggled through a college full of people just like that, and got nothing out of it but wasted time and resentment. All they did was tell me I was phony and a failure for wanting to actually learn how to draw and paint, and that is all kinds of backwards. All that self-important grandiose bullshit about illustration and technical skill not being “art” is just hiding the fact that they can’t paint or draw for shit. They live in an echo-chamber, and they only worship the absolute newest trends in the handful of areas of modern art they deem worthy, to the exclusion of all else. That is NOT art, that is elitism and egotism, pure and simple, and that sure as hell does not help the students. They are NOT better than you. Your beautiful artwork and expressiveness and illustrative style are powerful and important - everyone’s is. Saying someone’s work is “not art” and therefore not important is not a critique. It’s an asshole thing to say, and offers absolutely nothing of importance or value for potential students.

Now, that isn’t to say there is no value in modern and post modern and abstract expressionist etc. art - on the contrary. The more inclusive you can be in your influences, and the more you can look at and study, the better. (Branching out is always a healthy thing to do!) But if that’s ALL a school has to offer, if an art school tries to tell you that technical skill and illustration are invalid or unimportant, if they try to tell you that Rembrandt and Van Gogh aren’t worth looking at or studying because they are dead, if they dismiss artists they don’t approve of as “kids who like to scribble,” if they tell you that you don’t have a place there unless you conform exactly to what they want, then you need to avoid that place like the plague, because they are not there to help you, they are not there to teach you,  they are there to find people who can make the school look even more self-important than it already is. 

Sorry for the rant. XD I’m still haven’t quite gotten over how crappy my art college experience was. (For those interested, the crap school in question was Sacramento State University. After I left, I attended a handful of classes and workshops at the Academy of Art University in SF and Watts Atelier in Encinitas, CA ,which helped me SO much more, as the teachers were interested in actually helping students learn the skills that art schools are supposed to teach you. You know, painting and drawing and inking and sculpting and all that good stuff.) 

Uh, so yeah. >_> Basically look for schools with a good technical program that stresses life drawing, painting, drawing. Art is one of the few careers where people care about your portfolio more than where you got your degree (unless you’re gearing up to work for a Pixar or Dreamworks or something, in which case it does help). So find a place that will help you be the best you can be, and don’t worry about how prestigious or fancy they think they are. <3 

Echoing Julie’s remarks here. I spent my college years at an institution like the one in the comic that valued ~soul expression~ and AbEx over developing technical skills. At the time, I thought it was all peaches, because I was (and still am) super into making and observing AbEx art. Fortunately, I was required to take classes in Photoshop and Illustrator— without those, I would not have gotten a job after college.

I graduated without having learned ANYTHING about drawing, about color theory, about perspective or line weight or form. At thirt*coughcough* I’m still drawing like a high school kid and trying to make up for the damage of those wasted years.
Fuck “real art”, fuck “high art”, fuck “low art”. Learn, develop, grow, evolve, create.

I don’t often reblog stuff, but this comic and the commentary are incredibly important.

A lot of people ask me about college, expressing fear and nerves about whether or not they’re “good enough” or doing “the right art” to get in/do well. Fuck that, kids.

Find a school that will help you grow, no matter what art you do. Be open to criticism, yes, but if the school you’re talking to talks down to you or says that what you’re doing isn’t ~*~*~*”REAL”~*~*~ art, tell ‘em to fuck right off and walk the fuck outta there. That attitude is wrong. THEY are wrong.

You deserve to have an environment that nurtures your art and your skills and offers classes that will help you the very most that they can. Nothing will hurt you/your art more than cutting off the corners of your square peg to fit into a round hole.

/raises fist in solidarity

/extends middle finger at art elitist assholes

possibly one of the biggest mistakes of my life.

I think this basically sums up the mentality of any “fine arts” institution. 
I got a lot out of my education, but I had to do a lot of barking, biting and posturing to wrestle this mindset out of my instructors at the beginning. I had to teach them.

Lecturing ‘higher ups’ on their problematic methods and ideas in an effective way is not something a lot of people can do very well, especially in a school setting where we feel an instructor’s word is law (and during a time in our career where we may feel like we “don’t know anything”). So it’s important to do your research on schools before hand and make sure the school you apply to is one that is suitable for your needs. Interviews like this are a good way to know for yourself that this is not the place you want to spend money on and attend.

Bullet dodged, OP. Best luck finding a place that’s not full of shit <3

Truth is now days you have to know everything.
I know this, but from the other angle. When Everything is too much art and expression and “real art” well, I’m studying fucking fine arts. BUT at the same time I like this comic, illustrator “kids who like to scribble”  art. Sadly I’m not part of any of those circles, not real art installation fuckin contemporary art and not magnificent illustration comic art. 

I struggled thinking if fanart receive the name of art. Almost anything receive that title really, for me any of it is art and it confuses me when people goes everywhere thinking that everything is art. But also confuses me that I have been educated to not know when anything else than installations or videoart or stuff like that are “real”art.

But in this kind of life projects all is related to all and everything can be used in ones favor. So like that be it. I may not e able to graduate with all the technical knowledge for using Illustrator or Photoshop or how to perfectly draw a machine or typography, but I may be able to learn it trough life since life doesn’t end when you graduate and learn more is the only thing I can do. I may be able to bring out new concepts for images and communication and things that maybe not other person who prepared themselves for being a comic artist with a degree(which I wish i could really be) can in their first try.

What I try to say is that everything that one learns can be used in ones favor and one can always learn more, specially in the infinite field that is visual media. (you call it like you want to call it, art, non art, fine art, thing that is not art, at the end we are all working in the same with a different public, language and or medium)

kwikset:

lioness-quynh:

rebel—scum:

This machine allows anyone to work for minimum wage for as long as they like. Turning the crank on the side releases one penny every 4.97 seconds, for a total of $7.25 per hour. This corresponds to minimum wage for a person in New York. This piece is brilliant on multiple levels, particularly as social commentary. Without a doubt, most people who started operating the machine for fun would quickly grow disheartened and stop when realizing just how little they’re earning by turning this mindless crank. A person would then conceivably realize that this is what nearly two million people in the United States do every day…at much harder jobs than turning a crank. This turns the piece into a simple, yet effective argument for raising the minimum wage.

This makes me so happy to live in seattle

($7.25 is Federal minimum wage and corresponds to what a lot of people in the US are making…Just saying.)

(Fuente: bencrowther)

sugarnoor:

katiewoodger:

DISNEY HAVE STOLEN MY ARTWORK

I don’t know what to do. I am so upset. Can anyone help me?

My painting was created back in 2010, (see it HERE) and since then so many people have expressed their love for it, not just on tumblr, but in many places. At least 9 people had it tattooed on their bodies. It’s one of my favourite images I created at University and I was proud of it in many ways.

Disney have used it on a cosmetics bag HERE (look at the back)
and they have produced a Tshirt HERE with a really similar design clearly modeled from my painting

I’m so mad because I have no chance at getting Disney to do anything about it. I had so much respect for the company and now I am just SO upset and disappointed.

Any help, advice or signal boosting would be amazing. And thank you so much to the kind person who messaged me about this.

Reblogging for the sake of helping the original artist. Hopefully we can get the message heard by going viral? and perhaps somebody can do something to assist. Best of luck to you Katie~

runmonsterun:

“C’est la vie,” say the old folks, 

It goes to show you never can tell