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Babak Golkar Untitled (Taj Mahal), 2011, Acrylic sheets and...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:49:38 -0400

Untitled (Taj Mahal), 2011, Acrylic sheets and wood, 178 x112x15.5cm

Born in the United States, raised in Iran and having lived between Canada and the Middle East since 1996, Babak Golkar has developed bodies of work, which attempt to maneuver and negotiate the space between these cultures. Examining the tension between pre-modern and modern traditions is often the direction of Golkar’s research, which often results in production of drawings, objects/installations, videos and performances.

Rope Frames from Dollinger and Fleveau

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 06:45:30 -0400

Rope Frames from Dollinger and Fleveau

Brian Sanders illustrates the new poster for Mad Men. It’s...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:55:31 -0400

Brian Sanders illustrates the new poster for Mad Men.

It’s nice to see some people going back to paper and paint.

New Season - April 7 - waiting with bated breath

This is awesome and I really want to see this movie. Director,...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:12:00 -0500

This is awesome and I really want to see this movie. Director, Gustav Deutsch’s film Shirley - Visions of Reality brings to life the paintings of Edward Hopper. (Similar to this Van Gogh project) The set designs, which faithfully recreate a number of Hopper’s paintings are by Hanna Schimek. My only qualm with the sets, are that I wish that they weren’t so literal with the painted backdrops in the real scenes. But aside from that, it’s really incredible to see the actors in these scenes. Hopper already had such a cinematic sense in his paintings, that this movie seems like an obvious choice and one wonders why no one ever did it before.

Directors statement:
As the starting point for this film, which has at its heart the staging of reality and the dialogue of painting and film, I selected Edward Hopper’s picturesque oeuvre, which on the one hand was influenced by film noir – in his choice of lighting, subject and framing as seen in paintings such as Night Windows (1938), Office at Night (1940), Room in New York (1932) and his direct references to cinema such as in New York Movie (1939) and Intermission (1963) – and on the other hand influenced filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders.

thegetty: Interesting to compare the gorgeous yet subdued frame...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 07:26:35 -0500

thegetty:

Interesting to compare the gorgeous yet subdued frame on Vermeer’s The Milkmaid (1660) from the Rijksmuseum to the ornate gilded swirls surrounding Woman in Blue Reading a Letter.

pippa-wher-u-gon:

Day 10 - Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum

artistandstudio: John Singer Sargent’s palette. Harvard...

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:10:57 -0500

artistandstudio:

John Singer Sargent’s palette. Harvard museum

El Jaleo - by John Singer Sargent

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - Boston, MA

"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else..."

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:21:50 -0500

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”

- Neil Gaiman

(insert art/studio for writing)

Frying Pan Planets Photos of the bottom of frying pans by...

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:08:23 -0500

Frying Pan Planets

Photos of the bottom of frying pans by Christopher Jonassen, a Norwegian Photographer.

Laeh Glenn, Untitled (Flowers), 2012 Oil on panel, wood...

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 16:47:42 -0500

Laeh Glenn, Untitled (Flowers), 2012 Oil on panel, wood 16 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.

I love how the borders within the painting work with the borders ending of the frame in this painting. It questions ( or perhaps rather answers) whether or not a frame needs to enclose an entire frame to ‘frame’ it.

Vincent Van Gogh - real and imagined I’ve recently come...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:49:00 -0500

Vincent Van Gogh - real and imagined

I’ve recently come across two photo-ish type projects involving Van Gogh paintings. One is a by artist Slobodan Denic from Barcelona in which he imagines the real room from which Van Gogh painted ”Bedroom at Arles.”

The second one is by Lithuanian architect and photographer Tadao Cern, who imagined a realistic photograph of Van Gogh based on one of Van Gogh’s actual self portraits.

It’s strange to me that the photographs feel like the truer images, but in fact they are imagined and the paintings are more accurate representations of reality. That relationship is not often reversed.

I had to post more from artist Nandan Ghiya’s deFacebook...

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:01:16 -0500

I had to post more from artist Nandan Ghiya’s deFacebook Project. I just love this work.

Every now and then I come across an artist that combines so many...

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:59:07 -0500

Every now and then I come across an artist that combines so many things I’m thinking about into beautiful visual creations, that it feels like they’re in my head a little bit - but taking ideas I’ve thought about to create things I could never think of.

Today I came across Indian artist Nandan Ghiya. His intricately framed and quirky pixelated images combine ideas of nostalgia, loss, reverence, craft and history in a way that is arresting, emotional and humorous.

I mean, just look at the framing skills - I’m floored. Beautiful. It’s a perfect intersection of craftsmanship and contemporary dialogue. This is why I think framing can be so interesting.

Within the ‘deFacebook Project’, the artist has included a couple of different individual collections such as ‘The Family Tree 2.0’ and ‘Single & Available’. Through these artworks, he has gone on to develop his unique point of view on contemporary societies and human relationships thereby making his work an interesting interface between the past and the present where faces, genres and pixels mix and match in a series of vintage print collages. His exhibits represent a peculiar recycling of different times where our everyday habits become part of our past and our past is suddenly attached to modern society. (Polina Liarostathi for Yatzer.com)

Elad Lassry frames painted to match the art

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:00:16 -0500

Elad Lassry

frames painted to match the art

What can you make with floral foam, pantyhose and a...

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:00:46 -0500

What can you make with floral foam, pantyhose and a box?…

Well frame fresh flowers of course. It’s a simple DIY that just involves a little pre-prep and gathering of ingredients, but in the end makes a great statement piece for an event

(image: Framed Flowers for a wedding at the Art Institute of Chicago - By K. La Designs in Chicago)

prostheticknowledge: Windswept by Charles Sowers Art...

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 10:00:40 -0500

prostheticknowledge:

Windswept by Charles Sowers

Art installation fixed outside a gallery’s wall, displaying natural flow and turbulence of the wind - via dezeen:

Hundreds of spinning blades reveal the invisible patterns of the wind in American artist Charles Sowers’ kinetic installation on the facade of the Randall Museum in San Francisco.

The installation, titled Windswept, consists of 612 rotating aluminium weather vanes mounted on an outside wall. As gusts of wind hit the wall, the aluminium blades spin not as one but independently, indicating the localised flow of the wind and the way it interacts with the building.

“Our ordinary experience of wind is as a solitary sample point of a very large invisible phenomenon,” said Sowers. “Windswept is a kind of large sensor array that samples the wind at its point of interaction with the Randall Museum building and reveals the complexity and structure of that interaction.”

You can find out more at Dezeen here, with photos and a video of the work in action.

Oversize Framing

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:00:47 -0500

I came across this great post by Richard Christie on his Framemaker blog. It’s about the labor, materials and cost that goes into framing oversize works with diagrams of different techniques for each.

It’s very informative if you’ve ever tried to get something very large framed and wondered either A) why your local framer couldn’t do it or B) why it’s so damn expensive.

David Noonan’s clear acrylic frames at Modern Art, London.

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:00:51 -0500

David Noonan’s clear acrylic frames at Modern Art, London.

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:00:51 -0500

David Noonan’s clear acrylic frames at Modern Art, London.

A Famous Framer

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:00:41 -0500

This interesting post from The Frame Blog outlines a framing request by William Hogarth for his painting Paul before Felix, 1748. It was given to the London Framer Gideo Gosset to frame, who was part of an extensive framing family (which is outlined on the National Portrait Gallery website).

‘… it being thus Inclin’d will make ornaments on the sides improper, so that a Frame only is necessary. I have enquired of Mr Gosset a Frame Maker in Barwick [sic] Street about the price of one some what in the manner of the sketch below, he believes it may come to about 30 pound Guilt, to about half as much unguilt and about five pounds less if my Lord Windhams [sic] armes are omitted. Frames may be carried up to a great expense but he thinks one cannot be made in proportion to the picture for less.’

And even hundreds of years ago, they were still complaining about the cost of framing. Some things never change.

DIY Dorm Room ideas - Tape Picture frames on Design Sponge

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:29:05 -0400

DIY Dorm Room ideas - Tape Picture frames on Design Sponge