I just asked my art-school trained girlfriend to teach me to paint. My art history is probably better than average, but I'm sure I'm missing knowledge of 96% of the technique I'd like to know about. Help me fix this.
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posted by a box and a stick and a string and a bear
on Mar 8, 2013 -
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I will soon need cover art for a self-published book. I'd like to get something original rather than buying a stock photo. I am quite ignorant about the world of visual arts. Please teach me how to communicate what I want to an artist--and how to find one?
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posted by scaryblackdeath
on Nov 29, 2012 -
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Maybe you know this art print? Years ago I lost a piece of art that I loved but didn't know anything about. It was a sketch of a dry-docked small (single-person? in the perspective it looked to be about a 12-foot craft) sailboat, sail down, in a field of waving shore grass, looking out towards the sea and the back of the boat. The surf was far away, maybe 100 yards or so, and the boat was positioned in the lower right-hand quadrant of the piece though not in the corner. The original medium was was pencil or charcoal on paper. When I see it I think "New England coast" and "loneliness". It was a yellowish-greenish-sepia tone, or perhaps that was just the paper it was litho'd on. I recall it was an official print numbered in pencil on the matting and framed in a low-profile chrome frame. Do you know the work? Can you speculate on the name of the artist? I'd really like to be able to attempt to get another copy.
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posted by carsonb
on Oct 9, 2012 -
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On a deadline: Help me find the name of an amazing, bizarre, crude, disgusting artist whose childish paintings of people in extreme situations surrounded by thought/speech balloons/bubbles I saw in a Lower East Side gallery around 2010-2011.
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posted by StopMakingSense
on Oct 8, 2012 -
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Developing cultural taste/becoming an expert at new hobbies... are there general principles? (snowflakes inside)
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posted by 3491again
on Aug 27, 2012 -
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I'm trying to identify an oil painting of two young girls that was (still is?) in the Cleveland Museum of Art's collection.
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posted by quiet coyote
on Jun 30, 2012 -
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I'm looking for possible cheaper alternatives/ substitutes for
heavy acrylic gels for my paintings. The stuff I get at the art store is a little pricy for the amounts I like to use. I'm hoping there's some kind of (industrial?) paste out there that would act similarly. (basically, a thick medium that I can 'etch' then let dry)
posted by mrmarley
on Jun 13, 2012 -
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My wife and I bought a sketch and a watercolor, both of which have visible signatures, but that we cannot decipher. Images: Sketch
Img 1 &
2, Painting
Img 1 &
2. Does anybody recognize the artists or have any suggestions on how to ID the artists?
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posted by comradechu
on May 16, 2012 -
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Recently, Munch's "The Scream" sold for about $120 million. Somehow I had in my mind the idea that (a version of) "The Scream" was sold at auction a few years ago. Did I imagine this?
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posted by lewedswiver
on May 13, 2012 -
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My late grandfather painted
an interpretation of one of Maurice Utrillo's depictions of the "Maquis" of Montmartre, in Utrillo's time a very poor
area of the well-known Paris neighbourhood. Which Utrillo work did my granddad use as a blueprint, and where exactly was Utrillo's vantage point?
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posted by goodnewsfortheinsane
on Mar 26, 2012 -
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Any recommendations for blogs/sites about the cutting edge of contemporary painting? I'm casting a wide net here in terms of subject matter, abstraction vs. representation, etc.
posted by Toecutter
on Mar 20, 2012 -
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This is a long shot, but I'm trying to identify a painting that I saw at the Philadelphia Museum of Art about 4 years ago. All I remember is that it was a large painting that looked like a forest scene - at first glance it looked simply like a river within the forest, but upon looking at it again, you can see that the river is made up of hundreds upon hundreds of babies. I've tried googling, and exploring the Philadelphia Museum of Art's webpage, but to no avail. I am hoping someone knows this crazy painting!
posted by Neely O'Hara
on Feb 22, 2012 -
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Obscure art filter: seeking a Japanese (I think) pen and ink drawing of a horse titled "The Colt."
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posted by workerant
on Jan 12, 2012 -
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Which changes, events, discoveries, or epiphanies led to the most dramatic improvement in your painting or drawing ability?
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posted by cupcakeninja
on Dec 14, 2011 -
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In 1971 Artforum magazine published an essay,
'After Modernism', by American composer Morton Feldman, about Modernism's endgame and what it meant for contemporary painting. I have repeatedly looked for it online but have had no success. Just curious to see if it is on the intertubes somewhere, thanks.
posted by Phlegmco(tm)
on Nov 23, 2011 -
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Trying to identify an on oil on canvas painting that was painted over. Maybe a hidden treasure? Could I email anyone a pic of the painting for ID? Driving me crazy that I don't know name or artisit of the painted-over pic!
posted by merrygoround
on Oct 19, 2011 -
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What 2-D, physical, non-photographer, non-sequential (more or less straight-ahead drawers and/or painters) artists are considered to be "cutting edge" right now?
posted by cmoj
on Sep 22, 2011 -
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What American (?) naturalist landscape painter am I thinking of? I took
this photo in Ketchikan, Alaska while on vacation last week. It reminds me of a painter who painted grand American landscapes with lots of lush detailed realistic trees (and mountains), maybe in the past 100 years. I feel like I'd have seen his work on posters or calendars, or promoting US conservation groups. Any ideas?
posted by dywypi
on Jul 29, 2011 -
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Several years ago, my boyfriend and I saw a really weird painting/print/poster in a thrift store. We didn't buy it (nooo!), it disappeared shortly thereafter (NOOO!) and it's haunted us ever since. What WAS it?
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posted by julthumbscrew
on Jul 5, 2011 -
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This is a screencap from an episode of the "Ray Bradbury Theater" series from the 1980's. I tried using the Google Goggles app on my phone, both with the picture on my TV and on my computer monitor, but it can't scan it all the way. When it does come close, it can identify it as some sort of iconography, but that's it. Does anybody have any idea who the artist might be, or the title of the painting itself?
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posted by Corpsegoddess
on Jul 1, 2011 -
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What's a good bar-restaurant in Oakland, CA to hold a weekly social drawing event?
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posted by eeby
on Jun 2, 2011 -
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Installation/exterior decoration artists: What materials to use to draw/paint permanent text and illustrations on a brick wall?
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posted by cotesdurhone
on May 1, 2011 -
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I'd like to add a Latin or French phrase meaning "from life" (i.e., short for "painted from life") to my signatures on paintings to differentiate my work from artists who rely on photos and video monitors instead of live models for their work. I'd like it to be pithy and idiomatic, and so I'm somewhat reluctant to rely on Google Translate . . .
posted by Toecutter
on Feb 6, 2011 -
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Artist trivia time!
I love this painting! Does anyone know who the artist is? It's a painting with a sculpture of similarly-shaped heads next to it...but I just saw it randomly online and haven't the first clue of who it might be. Has anyone seen anything like it before? (other than on Easter Island)
posted by KiddAnnica
on Nov 13, 2010 -
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