One aspect of RedBubble that has got little attention is where it fits in the development of art. Firstly a caveat, I probably only know …
One aspect of RedBubble that has got little attention is where it fits in the development of art. Firstly a caveat, I probably only know just enough to be wrong. Ploughing on regardless, I believe RedBubble is part of a revolution in the artistic market. It is about the rediscovery that art can be embedded in the fabric of society rather than spread on top like a thin veneer of Vegemite. Since the Renaissance, art has been what a tiny elite produced and sold at vast prices to another tiny elite. The art world was open only to the wealth few and a cabal of elevated artists. I have been lucky in my life and have some of this art on my walls. I know it is art because somebody has told me it is and because it cost a smallish fortune. It bloody well better be art or I want my money back. But then, taking a deep breath, I look at what my children produce (or an even deeper breath, what I produce) and I understand that this elite view of art is only part of the picture. I know in non-Western societies art can be much more democratic – anybody can participate in the process. Australia’s Aboriginals maintain this capacity but they are not unique (I have seen a similar thing in Bali). There was a dream of many in the 19th century to return to democratic art. John Ruskin felt everybody had a right to beauty. But the technology has worked against such dreams. In the era of mass production, everyday art is uniformly bland. Ikea continues to churn out an art mediocrity that manages to insult both the artist and the purchaser. And so RedBubble. I feel the site is creating new artists and new art purchasers. We strive to deliver the highest quality and each work, while not unique, is certainly rare. Building a great collection of traditional art is beyond almost everybody’s reach. A great collection from RedBubble can easily be aspired to for a few thousand dollars. All the Bub’s art lacks (in general) is the imprimatur of art elite who tell us it is good. As for me, my RedBubble purchasers sit proudly beside traditional works and I will dare anybody to say which has intrinsically more value. Next week I am meeting with the Chairman of the National Gallery of Australia. We will see if he shares my views on the evolution of art. I will pitch him to try and get a RedBubble art installation, which I see as truly modern art, not just a change in the medium (or content) but a change in the very meaning of art itself. This is a change enabled by the power of the Internet combined with print-on-demand technology.
Somebody recently b-mailed me asking me that very question. They said, “I see your pictures, I read your journals, you’ve got your writi…
Somebody recently b-mailed me asking me that very question. They said, “I see your pictures, I read your journals, you’ve got your writing, but who _IS Michelle?” They went on to talk about how we all find different ways to express ourselves, but to truly understand, we need to know where the other person is coming from. So who is Michelle? Part of the answer (from third-person perspective): Michelle is a daughter / sister / granddaughter / girlfriend / friend / co-worker / acquaintance / old classmate / caregiver. Michelle is very family-oriented. Her best friend is her sister. Holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas are her favorite times of year because she gets to see her family. Michelle is a nurse. She went straight out of high school into an accelerated nursing program, and finished an Associate’s Degree within two years. Michelle is a pet-owner, currently of one dog, one cat, and one fish. In the past she has had other dogs & cats, goats, anole lizards, hamsters, gerbils, and mini-rex rabbits. Michelle is a bit obsessive compulsive at times, including but not limited to using proper grammar, to-do lists, how things are arranged in the medicine cabinet, and which way the light switches face. Michelle is a February-born person, but isn’t a big fan of the Snow Belt’s winters. She much prefers summer and autumn. Spring is too mushy where she lives. Michelle loves to bake/cook, write, photograph, read, sing / play music, even though things don’t always turn out the best. Michelle is a RedBubble addict. There is much more to Michelle than these things, but like I said at the top – this is only part of the answer.
Honouring the Feminine and the Masculine…I came home to find that my painting Lovers and poem Dangerous had been chosen to feature in t…
Honouring the Feminine and the Masculine…I came home to find that my painting Lovers and poem Dangerous had been chosen to feature in the Sisterhood and my painting Renaissance Man had been chosen to feature in Men Appreciation. Thank you so much Mel Brackstone, Barssel and Textureofthesin from Men Appreciation and Sally Omar and Lina from The Sisterhood. I truly appreciate these three features. For my RedBubble friends who have not seen these work. I have placed Renaissance Man and Lovers on the front page of my RedBubble Profile and here is Dangerous: It is that feeling in her eyes / As she moves towards revolution / Her poise, her presence / She holds herself defiant and courageous / A warrior of the heart. Her heart exposed / Vulnerable like a delicate reed / Glistening and subtle, a pearl / But so easily turned raw. She bends but not breaks / Missing the arrows of war / and marches forward towards / the rupture of change. Through the wind and hail / A tornado of emotion / Her heart in flames / Her dance ignited by passion. Her thinking heart / She has been told / Thinks too much / But she is aware, her eyes see / and her heart knows. Instinct and passion / Softness and Strength / Intuition and Wisdom / a powerful marriage. It takes a strong man to love her / One who can see her soul / For as strong as she is / She is just as soft / And she knows and he knows / In this she is dangerous. Written by Anthea Slade Love Anthea
Monday night Belinda uploaded this amazing photo … !http://images-3.redbubble.com/img/art/size:large/view:main/1186940-1-venus-2.jpg…
Monday night Belinda uploaded this amazing photo … It made my fingers itch … and after Bel sent me the file, I sent her back this … See it up close and personal here
The great Tea Party Revolution of 2009 was just one saggy baggy dipping “DUMP.” The strategists of the Republican Party are starting to …
The great Tea Party Revolution of 2009 was just one saggy baggy dipping “DUMP.” The strategists of the Republican Party are starting to read the tea leaves that their tea bag has ripped opened spilling the dregs floating all aimlessly. What a little Tempest in a Teapot…not millions upon millions of Teabaggers just thousands of thousands and ranting not about taxes, they are so unhappy about a black guy in The White House that is what they are protesting…and they are pining away for the good old days of Nixon, Reagan and George W. Bush. The talking heads of the Republican Party are so beside themselves being a “minority” with no relevance and loudly mumbling “no” and musing about seceding from the Union and touting “patriotism” their brand of course, and that government is the problem…if that is true then all Republicans should just get out of any form of government if government is the problem…otherwise they are part of the problem and not the solution…a Catch 22 (?). / / John McCain’s campaign manager Steve Schmidt has said that the religious right (the religious right being political evangelical wing-nut-job Pharisee ministers making a buck off their ignorant flocks and those professing to be Christians like i.e. Sarah Palin who has been describe as a jet engine mounted on a golf cart, ambition being the jet engine and the golf cart her IQ…just picture that) has hurt the Republican Party and has even spoken in favor of Gay marriage while addressing the Log Cabin Republicans, who are gay and Republican and who have co-opted Abraham Lincoln who was born in a log cabin (go figure). Perhaps Steve Schmidt was trying to make points with the Log Cabin Republicans, wonder if they will swallow this latest turn around in the new Republican strategy to grow the Republican Party by recognized a concern amongst gay men and women. Steve Schmidt also said that the Republican Party has to reach out to Hispanics and African Americans (Michel S. Steele comes to mind he had better start hip hopping fast)…and of course omitted the gender that powers America…WOMEN…you must have heard about this disenfranchised minority the Republican Party hasn’t. The Republican Party needs to get Rush Limbaugh focused on getting more women to vote Republican. Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party and a misogynist. Are there female Republicans (?) yes and in a shrinking Republican Party they truly are a minority. Of course there are some high profile female Republicans…Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Bo Derek and Janine Turner. And then there are the Republican Stepford wives ready and willing to toe the party line…not being disingenuous no doubt they do as they are told…and you have to have “females” to procreate little Republicans very Darwinian too…oops not Darwinian more on the biblical patriarchal mandate…think Christian family values and small government within the true blue red white and blue little prototypical American family model of the only real American families yup they are Republicans…? If the Republican Party continues to go in the direction it is going which is the way of the Dodo bird, they had better somehow someway make polygamy legal, sounds crazy, remember Republicans voted George W. Bush into office or did they steal both elections of 2000 and 2004 (?). And if you saw the folks protesting at the great Tea Party Revolution rallies of April 15, 2009, the Teabaggers must be practicing polygamy amongst themselves…the rumor is and it could be true but not confirmed Republicans marry their own and if it is true, the results are blatantly self evident, no diversity they all look the same and all think and speak in the same coded tongue “no taxation without representation” and “socialism “and “fascism” chanting very much like a cult at the Tea Party Rallies with tea bags everywhere…I ain’t making this stuff up just YouTube or do a search on the WWW of anyone mentioned and the Tea Party of 2009…polygamy is in the bible there is a precedence for it and think Utah…polygamy is illegal for now except for those that practice polygamy you just have to catch them at it…tea anyone?…just wait…polygamy could be included as a way to increase the Republican Party base maybe the Evangelical right wing-nut-jobs could find a way to sanction polygamy so they don’t get kicked out of the Republican Party…remember 2000-2008 it never happened…anything is possible if you are a Republican…tea parties with Marie Antoinette cake and polygamy…misogynist are lining up already. Shut up!!!...the only thing that will destroy America will come from the right…2000 to 2008 never happened…relax kick back and wait…? Waterboard anyone? April 17, 2009…just a journal rant..BFD not a manifesto just an out loud thought or two so forget the grammar and punctuation…there is a cancer growing from the right wing nutjobs brewing trickle down tea…what else is new!!!!!
If any one is interested in entering this comp in aid of the Lavender Trust at Breast Cancer Care, the deadline is 11/01/09 and the link …
If any one is interested in entering this comp in aid of the Lavender Trust at Breast Cancer Care, the deadline is 11/01/09 and the link is “http://www.renaissancephotography.org” So pretty impressive judges too. Good luck if you enter
It was a wonderful surprise to find it in my Red Bubbler mail !! / I’m very glad ! :) Thanks so much. & All the best PB PS…
It was a wonderful surprise to find it in my Red Bubbler mail !! / I’m very glad ! :) Thanks so much. & All the best PB PS : to see what I do now… I try to fly with the Angel / in this way HWD / :))
In the short time I have been part of redbubble I have learnt so much about editing and image making. I find it amazing that people from …
In the short time I have been part of redbubble I have learnt so much about editing and image making. I find it amazing that people from all over have seen and commented on my work. To have such talented people offer advice and support has been an enormous buzz. Now I can call myself ‘artist’. Admitedly only inside my head but it is an exhilarating and new thought. In the meantime I make a living in the real world but this has been enormously fun.
In my traditionally composed paintings of flowers and Greek icons, I express the peace, relaxation, and spirituality she connects with th…
In my traditionally composed paintings of flowers and Greek icons, I express the peace, relaxation, and spirituality she connects with the act of painting. Although I renders oil-on-canvas floral subjects in hues reminiscent of the Renaissance tradition, I masterfully uses negative space and photographic angles to produce graphic images with a decidedly modern sensibility. My works appear starkly divided into two categories, but they are intrinsically linked by my personal symbolism influenced by my deep faith and personal story. Rather than painting to express the sorrows of my past, I paints to help the viewer escape the stresses of everyday life and retreat to a simpler time where forgotten values are embraced. www.marinella-art.ch
If one googles the band, isabellalugosi, they would find that the first page of results includes a multitude of links to various music si…
If one googles the band, isabellalugosi, they would find that the first page of results includes a multitude of links to various music sites as well as band merchandising sites. Searching the term, tenseventythree will take you to several sites with writings and art. At redbubble.com, an online art community, searching the artist, 1073 will take you to an online portfolio full of paintings, drawings, photographs and writings that showcase darkness, grit and beauty in disguise. All of these have one common denominator, Eloy Alvarado. This alter-ego is an AP Art History and Graphic Design in a high school in far west Texas and is the masque of normalcy that he wears by day. / “Much of me feels like I am playing a role, and not myself.” he says in response to a question posed by one of his colleagues “I am a painter first and foremost. When I am not painting, I don’t feel myself. I feel incomplete.” When asked what subject he enjoyed teaching the most he said, “AP Art History has got to be the most rewarding subject that I teach. Sure it’s the most academic and the most confining, but i think that having a good knowledge of Art History one can best see their work in the grand scheme of things. Sort of a way to measure themselves up with the rest of the art making world.”
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