darksilenceinsuburbia:

Pirate TechnicsThe Baobab Tree.

Standing 18 meters (or 46 feet) tall, is an awesome new tree sculpture made of 80 different types of fabric. The Baobab Tree, created by Pirate Technics, was inspired by Africa’s baobab tree, which is the oldest living specimen in Africa and has long been a symbol for community. Rings about 16 feet wide were used to build the tree before it was wrapped with fabric. It sits outside the Southbank Centre in London, England. (by  alice)

What else can be done with fabric that hasn’t been done before?

-ML

tacticalshoyu:

The work of Li Tianbing revolves around this very theme of the one-child policy.

Suspended Threads by Amanda McCavour

“In my work, I use a sewing machine to create thread drawings and installations by sewing into a fabric that dissolves in water. This fabric makes it possible for me to build up the thread by sewing repeatedly into my drawn images so that when the fabric is dissolved, the image can hold together without a base. These thread images appear as though they would be easily unraveled and seemingly on the verge of falling apart, despite the works actual raveled strength.’ — Amanda McCavour, Artist Statement 

This is what we were learning about in our Fabric Modification class. It’s so simple to do, really. The artist here takes it a step further.

-ML

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oahzyllib:

Francesca Woodman

“Woodman’s oeuvre represents a remarkably rich and singular exploration of the human body in space and of the genre of self-portraiture in particular. Her interest in female subjectivity, seriality, Conceptualist practice, and photography’s relationship to both literature and performance are also hallmarks of the heady moment in American photography during which she came of age.”
-Guggenheim

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cavetocanvas:

Ad Reinhardt, Red Abstract, 1952

From the Yale University Art Gallery:

Reinhardt began exhibiting his work in New York City in the 1940s, when ambitious painters were recasting European models and the aims of modernist art. Yet while Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman incorporated a subjectivist ethos and biomorphic forms, Reinhardt insisted on the purely visual aims of abstract painting and by the late 1940s worked exclusively with nonsymbolic, geometric forms. In the 1950s, Reinhardt limited his palette to a single color, moving from red to blue. Red Abstract offers no trace of painterly gesture, nor any subject apart from the intricate visual rhythms and relationships that comprise the picture field. After 1953, Reinhardt made only black canvases. An influential teacher and writer, Reinhardt’s theories on art impacted mimimalist artists of the next generation.

We learned about Ad Reinhardt in Kevin Appel’s painting class. I like his idea behind the creation of these paintings. Though, I’m not a huge fan of abstract or minimalism, but I appreciate its presence in the art world.

-ML

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Giuseppe Ciraci. All in the Face.

Sacro I.

Dionisio.

http://www.giuseppeciraci.com/

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Melissa Chimera. Raiment, 2012.

indispensabletopersevere:

Egon Schiele

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bookspaperscissors:

Thread sculptures by Jannick Deslauriers

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