Archive for the 'Art' Tag

I like the way Google changes their logo to celebrate things. Today their logo is inspired by Chagall, it is his birthday.
I like Google start page, clean and neat with few distractions. A focused search tool.

David Airey has a post about The alphabet, but not as we know it. There are several creative alphabets, from a human crafted to photo-based fonts. The human crafted alphabet is shown below, to see the rest of them - click on the link above.

The Last Supper is the painting by Leonardo da Vinci shown in amazing detail. The computer image is 16.118.035.591 pixel (172181 x 93611) and you can click on it to get closer and closer.
They have some other work as well, check their Portfolio.

I found Sculptured Furniture through StumbleUpon. Amazing sculptured furniture, works of art. Wonder if I would dare to use it as furniture if I had one of those?

I got a link to the PYSANKY SHOWCASE in a maillinglist. Ukrainian Pysanky (Easter eggs) is an ancient form of Ukrainian folk art. There are some very beautiful eggs at that site.
Wikipedia has an interesting article about Pysanka where you can read about its history and how it is done.

March 14 I was at Midzone for the opening of an art exhibition. It was also the launch of Konstzonen (Artzone) which is a gallery in the office. The artist is Anders Adèrn from Malmö.
I like this concept, mixing business and art. This is an intersection that is good for creativity.

When in Amsterdam we went to the Van Gogh Museum. This museum has the world´s largest collection of Vincent van Gogh: more than 200 paintings, 500 drawings and 700 letters as well as van Gogh´s own collection of Japanese prints.
We went there on a Friday, the museum is open longer (until ten) and there is [...]

I have been in Amsterdam and while there we went to Rijksmuseum - National Museum of Art and History. While the restoration of the main building is underway, the Rijksmuseum displays the crème de la crème of its permanent collection in the Philips Wing. The exhibition is titled “The Masterpieces” and offers the unique opportunity [...]

Balboa Park was mentioned in a discussion at Yahoo! Groups. On their website it says:
Balboa Park - the nation’s largest urban cultural park. Home to 15 major museums, renowned performing arts venues, beautiful gardens and the San Diego Zoo, the Park has an ever-changing calendar of museum exhibitions, plays, musicals, concerts, and classes—all in the [...]