Morphing Van Gogh Portraits
This creative video is by Philip Scott Johnson. I saw an earlier one on Women in art, but it is nice to see all one artist’s changing views of himself.
From the Air
Photo taken from a helicopter ride to the Grand Canyon. This was taken on the way back, only auto levels were applied to in photoshop which changed the drab browns to blues
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Art Experiment with Luc Tuymans
I like to work of painter Luc Tuymans, who “makes extensive use of techniques from photography, television and film, such as cropping, framing, sequencing and (sometimes extreme) close-ups. His palette usually tends toward monochrome. Subjects of his paintings range from the historic, for example covering the Holocaust or colonial politics in Belgian Congo, to the very banal, depicting everyday objects. Some of his paintings represent abstract emotions.” – Wikipedia
This is an interesting experiment, but I think says more about how we filter out images during our day. I don’t think it says much, if anything about art appreciation or recognition. Everyday we are bombarded with more images and information than my grandfather’s generation could imagine. We have learned “not to see”
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New Images
I’ve been working with Kandid again and the Voroni algorithm. Here are a few new images
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The Argive Plain
42″ high x 48″ wide, Oil, Cold Wax on Canvas
Indiana — The Argos Cycle
A series of paintings
Argos history — the Greek thousand eyed monster
Argos — the city in Greece
Argos in Indiana
Edna my grandmotherH
Owl at the gate of the woods — Maple trees, Hackberry and Beech — the long lane
Works on Paper
A Jumbled Dream, 22″ x 22″ mixed media on paper
By What Path, 22″ x 22″ mixed media on paper
There is No Science, 22″ x 22″ mixed media on paper
I Saw Death Resting, 22″ x 22″ mixed media on paper
Tom Tyler at Rio Bravo in T or C One Man Show One Man Show
One Man Show
A Fuego!
Award-Winning Artist Tom Tyler
Shows at Truth or Consequences Gallery
February 10 – April 7, 2007
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Minnesota artist Tom Tyler brings 20 of his music, dance and live performance-themed paintings to Downtown Truth or Consequences hippest gallery, Rio Bravo Fine Art, for a one-man show February 10 – April 7, 2007. Titled “A Fuego!” the exhibit features a meet-the-artist reception on Saturday, February 10th from 6-9 p.m. at the gallery, 110 South Broadway, Truth or Consequences. This is Rio Bravo’s first major exhibition of 2007 and is proud to showcase Tyler’s work.
Christmas Card
Genetic Art
Working on a new series of genetic art, using an open source program called Kandid, a genetic art project I am working with a transparent Voroni algorithim
Seafire
36″h x 24″, Oil, Cold Wax on canvas
More photos from the “Surfaces” show
30″h x 22″w x 1″d
Ceramic stains, Terra Sigillata, on Terra Cotta
Surfaces
My Weekend at the Galleries show will be called “Surfaces”. Surfaces are really what the whole thing is about. The painting surfaces and the ceramics.
Photo Fest
Photo Fest
Images From Around The World
Exhibition September 23 - October 29, 2006
Reception: September 23, 2006 6-9 pm
Featuring Artists as:
Delmas Howe
Herbert Lotz
Edward Lucie-Smith
Donald Woodman
Peter D. Harrison
Samuel Ace
Judy Miller
Dave Barber
Judd Irish Bradley
Jess Gorell
Moshe Koenick
Horace Kerr
Sandra Padilla
John Flannery
Kevin Maynard
Chip Simons
Kathleen Smith
Rob Wheeler
Eduardo Alicea
David Lamb
Larry Blum
Tad van der Weele
And More
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday - Saturday: 10 am - 5 pm
Sunday 12 am - 5 pm
Monday - Tuesday: Closed or by Appointment
RioBravoFineArt, Inc.
110 Broadway Avenue
Truth or Consequences, NM 87901
505-894-0572 / 505-640-3671
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new paintings
New Paint
Pr0n Opens
Pr0n opens tomorrow here is the show statement:
This show is quite a bit different than ones I have done in the past. For one thing it is about a highly controversial subject for many people. Secondly, it is about appropriation. Each of these images are based on the work of other people, they are filled with thousands of tiny images gotten from surfing the net. I have tried to stay away from any images that are copyrighted but with the sheer numbers (over 5000) I am sure there are a few. I have distorted them, changing them beyond recognition. (If you do see yourself though let me know) The idea started out simple enough — a man lying on a bed filled with longing, became the initial image to be filled with a photo mosaic of thousands of “porn” images. From there I continued to do more and more pictures — making them almost abstract. I was more interested in the shapes and composition that the “person or people” (with porn are we really ever interested in the “person”? Maybe a hot face or body or the sexual act, pornography is a kind of appropriation in itself). This is where it got interesting to me and I started to paint over the images - really abstracting them.
Then the idea came to mount them on canvas and start a painting and let the viewers add to it. Again more appropriation, so in a sense you the viewer help me finish the work. Please feel free to add what you wish on the canvas, with the understanding that it becomes my property.
Second Thoughts
Well, Pr0n is hung (so to speak) but I am having serious second thoughts about it now. It looks good and there is has been good feedback but I’m not quite sure what is saying. There are 3 small flash movies that I think I am happiest with. Thanks to jtarbell at www.levitated.net I took a pornographic keyword list from the US Congress and put it in a text “space” In one it fills up the screen with no user input, in another you click on the words and they get bigger and seem to float by. A lot of the words by themselves are not pornographic so it is kind of fun. The fractal will put words together making some new vocabulary, it will be fun to work on these, adding and subtracting words. I also have one of a chatroom conversation. The chatroom needs somemore work. I would like pictures to float up instead of the buttons. I still could use some Flash instruction but this was a nice way of getting this up and running. Flash reading xml files is getting easier for me although a couple of these have the words loaded in Action Script. Here are the links:
Pr0n Fractal
Pr0n Text
Chat Room
Pr0n - the Show
I’m clearing out the studo for the show. I’ve strung enough wire to make 4 “hallways” out of black plastic sheeting, 4 foot widw and 10 feet long. You can mill around outside looking at the prints or go down the hallway and view a painting/collage. You are asked to leave some graffiti or “appropriate” humor on the painting. So the entire show ends up being about appropriation. I am working on a flash movie of 10 minutes of porn room cha(I think it turns out the handles are more fun that the actual chat, Health Ledger seems to be very popular as a name right now). Still working out some bugs but hope to have it up for the show — projected on a wall. Show opens for the Chocolate Fantasia this Saturday but may finished. I’m opening really the morning after the $1.98, 2/19/06, stop by for a mimosa anytime after 11:00 am. See Gaysilver for more info on that.
Pr0n - the process
Here is a detail of how these images are created. First I use GIMP to highlight edges and posterize the image. I take out recognizable features and adjust for levels, color etc. Sometimes backgrounds are changed as well. So the original is pretty much lost. I then save as a ping. I ususally save the images 1200 pixels at the largest. I then start Metapixel and upsize it 4 or 5 times depending on the look I want. Of course there are many other adjustments to Metapixel to get the image. Here is a detail of the image I am going to use in the ad.
The image is then printed — in this case on 22 x 30″ Magnani Pescia paper on an HP Designjet printer. I then use Golden Acrylics to paint over the image, using transparent paints I manipulate the image until I get it where I want it.
Pr0n
A new series for February, about porn. Wikipedia for Pr0n is:
Pr0n or pron is 1337 slang for pornography
This deliberately inaccurate spelling/pronunciation for “porn” is sometimes used in legitimate communications (such as email discussion groups, Usenet, chat rooms, and internet web pages) to circumvent language and content filters - which might result in messages being rejected as offensive or flagged as spam - and to prevent search enginesfrom associating them with pornography - which might result in unwelcome traffic. It has subsequently become one of the most widely used examples of 1337 speak (leet speak). Pr0n is also sometimes spelled backwards to further obscure the meaning to potential non-informed readers.
It can also refer to ASCII art depicting pornographic images.
No ASCII art but photo collage using GIMP and Metapixel. Using found images and changing them in GIMP then putting them through Meatpixel.
Now Reading
Planned books:
None
Current books:
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The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky by Mark Scroggins
Recent books:
- Verses from the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the Sublime by Stephen Batchelor
- The Savage Detectives: A Novel by Roberto Bolano
- Georges Braque: A Life by Alex Danchev
- de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens
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