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Powys art group inspired by natural world for new project

AN ART group based on Montgomeryshire are working on a new environmental themed project. Celf-Able, a group run by disabled artists in the Montgomeryshire area, are continuing to explore sustainable living and environmental issues through their art. Their latest project is titled ‘DaearGelf/EarthArt’. The project will see them partnering with Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust, Siawns Teg, artist Jo Munton, Centre for Alternative Energy and Montgomeryshire ...

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Art inspired by attack victim Yumnah Afzaal helps heal ‘deep wound’ for city’s Muslims

Eight months after she and three members of her family died in what police say was a hate-motivated attack in London, Ont., the legacy of 15-year-old Yumnah Afzaal continues to inspire change. On Saturday, a painting by artist Amer Sal Mohammed — who works under the name Amer SM — was unveiled at the city's White Oaks Mall. The artwork was inspired by a floor-to-ceiling ...

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Self-portraits inspired by 19th-century Iranian beauty ideals | Art and design

In 19th-century Iran, ideals of beauty were fluid and unconstrained by gender norms: facial hair was considered fashionable for women, while men wore feminine clothes and makeup. Using wigs and prosthetics, Shirin Fathi, artist in residence at the Sarabande Foundation in London, transformed herself into three Persian archetypes for her project Heart Throbs: adolescent man, adult man, and man who mimics the look of ...

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The thought-provoking new art exhibition in Rochester inspired by former soldier’s ‘joy, pain and trauma’

A new thought-provoking art exhibition has opened in Rochester’s Art Gallery, dubbed The Unknown Soldier. The piece was created by former homeless artist and soldier, David Tovey, and aims to raise conversations surrounding the problems faced by ex-service personnel returning from war. The exhibition will appear in the gallery from January 28 until April 16 - the public will also be pleased to know ...

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Hilton Als on Curating a David Zwirner Show Inspired by Toni Morrison – ARTnews.com

Unlike Beloved (1987), which is studied in high schools across the U.S., and Song of Solomon (1977), which won a National Book Critics Circle Award upon its release, The Black Book (1974) may not rank among Toni Morrison’s more well-known tomes in some circles. Assembled with collector Middleton A. Harris and a team of researchers while she was still an editor at Random House, The Black ...

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L’Orangerie Shows How Soutine Inspired de Kooning’s Best Known Series – ARTnews.com

Ever ambitious, Willem de Kooning once declared to his photographer friend Rudy Burckhardt that he wanted to paint “like Ingres and Soutine—both at the same time.” Ingres, no doubt, for the rigor and refinement of his portraits of noble patrons, and Soutine for the expressionistic abandon he brought to everything from scenes of everyday working people to dense, windswept landscapes of the South of ...

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Zoom calls inspired a need for abstract art

Colette Moscati's painting of Gostrey Meadow Printed and digital download photos available An artist from Farnham created an aerial view painting of Gostrey Meadow to provide a more interesting background for her Scottish client’s home office Zoom calls. The woman, who used to live in Farnham, commissioned Colette Moscati to make a “statement art piece” as a “talking point” to get the chat flowing ...

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The European art and architecture that inspired iconic Disney films

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Each year, over one million people visit Neuschwanstein, a 19th-century castle in the Bavarian alps, famous for its Romanesque Revival style and Gothic details, including vertical limestone towers and turrets topped with deep blue pointed roofs. Once home to a famously introverted Bavarian monarch known as “the fairytale king,” the idyllic architecture — designed more so for aesthetics rather than defense ...

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‘Swamp Show’ on the Connecticut River inspired by Thomas Cole’s ‘The Oxbow’

Along the Connecticut river, an oxbow in Northampton, Massachusetts, has long been a source for landscape paintings of tranquil beauty.One famous 19th century oil, by Thomas Cole, was the inspiration for an art show earlier this month on a cove of the oxbow. Thirty paintings and sculptures inspired by nature were hung, floated or partially submerged in the "Swamp Show."Viewings were by reservation and ...

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