When I was in Chicago last month, I was looking at Grant Wood's American Gothic and I realized (as I often do, standing before iconic paintings) that what we think we know about a painting isn't really true. In this instance, what I "think" is of a painting with two very dour old people, when in fact, what I was looking at was ( Read more... )

The Uniform Project, where that artist Sheena Matheiken (http://theuniformproject.com/) wears the same little black dress every day for a year, is winding down to the end of its year.

And now, near the end, she does a fashion homage to Magritte:


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The main reason I was laughing at those plastic Venus statues way back when (rather than being truly horrified, as many readers were) was that I have a different contextual reference for this kind of fine-art-inspired schlock. Simply put, I see it all the time ( Read more... )

To balance the equation, I'd like to show you this, which feanna linked in a comment to that other post.


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Okay, after a fair amount of interest in my "Improving Aphrodite" post from the other day, I made it public, and I'm happy to see so many people as piqued by the injustice to art and anatomy as I was ( Read more... )

At work, I was flipping through catalogs of fine-art reproductions, admiring the good ones, and groaning over the poor ones, when I noticed a trend that stopped me and sent me furiously turning pages back, saying "oh my god! Look what they're doing ( Read more... )