For your amusement and amazement.
A page from the 2018 calendar…
Another January winding down. There is snow and cold - lots of it - west of us, we here in the Pacific Northwest have lots of gray, overcast days, but really mild temperatures for the most part. That’s the weather I brag about to my friends: beautiful, mild summers and gray but mild winters. At least with lockdowns and social distancing, it’s a little easier to be in when it’s gray.
I’ve gathered a few of my recent finds and new artists and a couple of giggles. And, just a reminder, there’s something new at the shop, and watch for a February debut of another.
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From the Whitney Museum of American Art:
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And there’s this! Those are dried leaves she’s stitching on!
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/12/hillary-waters-fayle-leaves/
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The recent passing of this Argentine mural artist Tamara Djurovic Hyuro spotlights some of her amazing public art here. Each of these artists will be added to the Daily Amazing page, because, well, they’re pretty amazing, don’t you think?
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/tamara-djurovic-hyuro/
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Ruby Silvious and her teabag art inspired me for a page in the 2019 birds calendar and I love her book. This is some new work by her, as well as a visit to her studio.
I think you’ll enjoy this video visit to her studio, as well as browsing her whole site, where there are lots of artistic goodies. https://www.rubysilvious.com/artist-at-work--
These bags drawn and painted on teabags were inspired by Ruby.
Her new book looks pretty inspiring, too! Hmmm….
She has a collection of “blue” art, including one she calls COVID Blues. This was a favorite of mine from it.
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Can the arts bring us back? Yes, if we bring them back first.
What is art’s function? What does art do for a person, a country?
Scholars, economists, revolutionaries keep debating, but one very good answer has held now for 2,500 years. The function of art, Aristotle told us, is catharsis. You go to the theater, you listen to a symphony, you look at a painting, you watch a ballet. You laugh, you cry. You feel pity, fear. You see in others’ lives a reflection of your own. And the catharsis comes: a cleansing, a clarity, a feeling of relief and understanding that you carry with you out of the theater or the concert hall. Art, music, drama — here is a point worth recalling in a pandemic — are instruments of psychic and social health.
Not since 1945 has the United States required catharsis like it does in 2021. …
And, finally….
I dare you not to recite this childhood rhyme.
Well, and….(be sure you have your volume up.)
https://www.facebook.com/100004009498224/posts/2258719544271673/
