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Posts tagged "art with words"
“It’s more complicated than that.”
Edward Tufte, Complicated: yellow, print on canvas, 29 ½” x 29 ½”, edition of 3
Andrea Dezsö’s Embroidered “Lessons From My Mother”
I met Andrea in San Diego last year and was immediately floored by her work. (Also, being 1/4 Romanian but still knowing almost nothing about Romania, I’m always fascinated by Romanian artists.)
From afar, the stitching and calming colors looked like the work of a doting grandmother, but up close there were images of vaginas, fetuses and a study of the myths that mothers told their daughters in Transylvania, Romania, where Ms. Dezsö, 39, was raised…
Working in the city has provided fodder for many of her ideas and for her embroidery series, which she stitched while traveling throughout the city. A woman stitching in public is viewed differently in different neighborhoods, Ms. Dezsö found.
“If I’m in Queens, people think I’m a traditional woman,” Ms. Dezsö said. “If I’m in Manhattan, it’s the hippest thing.”
See more of Andrea’s work here.
A rebus-letter sent by Mark Twain to his wife
Mark Twain (1835–1910, née Samuel Clemens) wrote essays on art and doodled in his journals, letters, and manuscripts, sometimes to entertain his children and sometimes for his own amusement. In addition, he used his artwork to secure patents for three inventions, including an “Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments” (to replace suspenders); a history trivia game; and a self-pasting scrapbook coated with a dried adhesive that only needed to be moistened before use.
Read more: The Visual Art and Design of Famous Writers
“I Art Therefore I Bullshit” by WASTED RITA
I tweeted earlier: “Jack White has the magic ingredient of any great artist — he’s terrifically full of bullshit.” So @mezrups sent me this.
Ed Ruscha sketchbook drawings/writing
Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha by Margitt Rowell
The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, 2003
(via defacedbook)
This “If You Have a Minute to Spare — Tell Me Everything You Know” sign came from a cache of old signs found at an old offset printing shop in Queens, New York.
(via jndevereux)
