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Just been listening & watching an ABC video. Great story.
Talking Heads: 2009: Wendy Whiteley Podcast 26:00 10/08/2009 Wendy Whiteley: Peter Thompson talks to artist Wendy Whiteley about her extraordinary journey from swinging sixties London and New York to a tranquil garden at the edge of Sydney Harbour.
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Beautiful photo from Werewolf 3 article by Gordon Campbell The image is worth a click to see the large version. His story & take on this image is great reading.
One other thing : if you look at the people in this picture one by one, they go a lot way to refuting the stereotypes of dull and staid New Zealand in the 1950s. Many of these faces are flat out beautiful, and transported. Look for instance, at the woman with the large white starry ear-ring in the front of the picture, or the two young women in the centre – she in the striped shirt and (especially) the woman to her right in the picture. Meanwhile, the guy on the upper far right looks like a Toy Love fan teleported in from the 1980s. The happy mixture of young and old is also pretty wonderful.
More iSketches by Jorge Colombo, who was on the New Yorker.
This is from the rather wonderful non blog.
Hockney is making iSketches! Great.
Here he is in one of my digital efforts!
This is one of his iPhone images. Found it here, plenty more there.
Later:
OOOpsss! Apparently these are not iphone but done on a tablet.
There are several drawings of Hockney’s brother, Paul, and his sister, Margaret; and in each picture the subjects seem mesmerised by a small gadget in their hands, which turns out to be an iPhone — Hockney’s latest enthusiasm: “Yes, my brother and sister sat there for three or four hours, totally engrossed.†Hockney is thrilled that he has finally persuaded Celia Birtwell to buy one so that he can send her pictures: “I draw flowers on them and send them out every morning to a group of people.â€
He demonstrates, tracing his finger over the tiny screen with such absorption that I worry he will stop talking altogether. “Who would have thought the telephone would bring back drawing?†he exclaims with glee.
“It’s such a great little device, it has every Shakespeare play in it and the Oxford English dictionary. In your pocket! But it’s also amusing, look at this.†He blows into it and his new toy becomes a harmonica.
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The art that graces the cover of this week’s New Yorker magazine is entitled “Finger Painting.” It’s the ideal name, since the artist created it using nothing more than his finger and trusty iPhone.
Artist Jorge Colombo designed the scene of a New York City hot dog vendor using an iPhone app called Brushes, software he only started using in February. Created by developer Steve Sprang, the $4.99 program lets anyone from amateur to professional draw and paint using the iPhone as canvas.
Note: I was there first!
I’ve done it. I have just put up a new display in in the
I am highlighting 10 prints I have not really put on display before – they are all from the Thousand Sketches, but they have not been in other shows as far as I recall.
They are all different in style & media, but I think they are a unified collection as well. When I was gathering them up it was clear to me – though I can’t explain it – which ones were in, and which were out, maybe their simplicity.
Here are a couple from the set, the first & the last:
This one is very early on in the Thousand Sketches – I recall thinking I can do a thousand in a year easily, I was churning them out in minutes. It proved more difficult of course!
This one is a meditation on how in my birth year 1944 Lee Krassner was painting gray slabs and destroying them. Unconsciously doing a conceptual art work in tune with the holocaust deaths in Germany.
Somehow this was created with the jingling of keys & coins while the phone was in my pocket.
A portrait of ARIA award-winning blind musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu has won this year’s Archibald Prize.
Guy Maestri’s close-up of Yunupingu’s face was the bookies’ favourite ahead of today’s announcement at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.