Contemporary Art :: Fine Art
The San Francisco Art Institute is one of those institutions that any artist always wished he/she could have gone there… at least for a semester. It’s that great of an inspiring place with lots of talented teachers and other artists who live/work there. In case you’re a budding artist, well, here is your opportunity: NOW [...]
The American artist Ansel Adams is one of the world’s best known landscape photographers. He was born in 1902 in San Franciso. He died just south of his place of birth, on the beautiful coast of Monterey, in 1984. He was the most celebrated American photographer of the twentieth century, whose photography spans over 60 [...]
3 art education opportunities + 3 countries + 3 art focal points + 3 art faculty = 3 totally different learning experiences: 1. MA Curatorial & Critical Studies; Frankfurt, Germany 2. Gwangji Bienanale Int’l Curator Course, China 3. MFA Graduate Programs, Maryland Institute College of Art, US The opportunities to study art are [...]
Thematic Residencies at The Banff Centre, Canada 00 On the Commons; or, Believing-Feeling-Acting Together Banff Research in Culture Program dates: May 9 – May 27, 2011 Application deadline: December 1, 2010 On the Commons is part of Banff Research in Culture (BRiC), a new residency program designed for scholars engaged in advanced [...]
Transat Institute offers the MFA Creative Practice, an international masters program for working artists with summer residencies in Berlin, winter residencies in New York and one-on-one advisement during two academic years – wherever students work and live. The new MFA Creative Practice is a student-centered postgraduate art program which fosters independent thinking, risk-taking [...]
Wanna see SAMO / Jean-Michel Basquiat piecing live downtown NYC? This graffiti video clip which dates back to 1981 shows the graffiti artist in action. This video art clip nicely demonstrates some of the unique nature of graffiti art: * its illegality bringing the need to work ‘under cover’ and enhancing the importance of signature [...]
Since World War I, many artists and painters have implemented modern technology into their art form. Airbrushes and the development of their use began its popularity almost literally at the same time in Europe and the United States. These movements were started by both Man Ray (New York City) and Wassily Kandinsky at the Bauhaus [...]
A National Geographic Assignment – For Life ~ WorldNomads.com announces 2008 Travel Photography Scholarship in conjunction with the National Geographic Channel. Making a living out of traveling the world is something many ‘world nomads’ aspire to, and we’re hoping to be able to help a few talented individuals make that their reality through our scholarship [...]
Oh, it is not always easy to decide what is art, why art is art, and how art comes about being art. This article discusses the relationship between art and form. Defining Art from Form “Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.” – Joseph [...]
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