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Friday, April 29th
To moms, to dads, to grannies...
Today we are celebrating.
Translation of Children's Book Online number 42.
Translation of Children's Coloring Book number 42.
"La Carrozzina e la Pecora Dormigliona".
Number 42 is in Italian.
"The Baby Carriage and Sleep-Sheep", it's called in English.
 It's the LUCCA-project.
Lucca is a very special girl. Age 5 - we have the same sirname.
The LUCCA-project Contents:
Children's Books Online to download and print
Children's Coloring Books Online to download and print
Children's Books Online as slide shows
Mini-posters of main characters to download and print
One mini-poster of all the fairy tale characters to download and print
T-shirt transfer motifs to download and print
Take a look in Colorful News about this project, if you like.
OOO
Asbjorn Lonvig on 04.29.05 @ 03:58 AM EST [ more..]
Wednesday, April 27th
News from Rome, Italy
 Today, in nearby Rome, the new Pope Benedict will be officially installed as leader of one billion people. I am trying to decide whether to brave the crowds. The day of Pope John Paul's death, I was in a plane on the way to Italy to work on a series of paintings and teach an art course. The week of my arrival, some of my students went in to attend the viewing of his body. They stood all night among millions thronging toward St. Peter's square; they returned exhausted and elated, even the non-Catholics among them deeply moved by the experience. I decided to go in to his funeral later that week.
William Swetcharnik on 04.27.05 @ 09:04 AM EST [more..]
Monday, April 25th
NatuurkunstDrenthe
 To translate into NatureartDrenthe. We worked hard to realise a permanent location for art-in-nature in our province: Drenthe (www.drenthe.nl). This province is one with very less people ( if you know that the Netherlands is one of the much crowded places on earth), only about 300.000 but with much nature and the only province of our country with prehistoric stone-monuments called Hunebeds. In earlier days this part of Holland was covered with hayfields, sand-dunes and a big part of it was a moor. The biggest on of Europe I think. Around 1870 people did dried up the moor digging out the peat. The famous Dutch artist was working here for a short period of time in the beginning of the twentieth century. The idea for a more permanent place for art-in-nature did start with two other projects and now we start a new foundation ( Stichting Natuurkunst Drenthe) and found a location just behind the open air museum Ellert&Brammert in the small village Schoonoord.
Adri AC de Fluiter on 04.25.05 @ 07:48 AM EST [more..]
Friday, April 22nd
The Forgotten Side of History
 For some time I had been thinking about a subject matter for a common project that might appeal to enclavians and foreigners alike. Something simple. Nothing as complex as Globalization and Individuality, or as potentially controversial [for our Islamic friends] as Progress and Tradition; and definitely nothing as childish as The Rainforest, or The River. In fact, none of the usual eco-friendly stuff so much in vogue these days and easy to work on [especially if you are surrounded by the stuff and you’re watching it being torn down daily]. That would be far too obvious and run the risk of being slightly clichéd. I wanted something unexpected that might actually force us all to research a little because of how simple and basic it was.
Jose Freitas Cruz on 04.22.05 @ 07:10 AM EST [more..]
Wednesday, April 20th
BLINK, - I LIKE IT! (but I don't know why)
 I like watching people at art exhibition openings. I have had over a hundred receptions over decades as artist and also managed a retail gallery in Honolulu. These are some of my observations of folks in the social setting of the formal art opening.
The average time spent alone in front of a work of art is a couple seconds. If the spectator is moving from piece to piece with another person or group, dialogue about the work occurs, extending the time of the group stops in front a piece usually up to 30 seconds. After going through all the works, some will come back for a second and longer look at preferred works.
Pygoya on 04.20.05 @ 10:18 AM EST [more..]
Monday, April 18th
Art Snobs Don't Read This!
Okay. Why is it that art snobs always talk about art like it's a matter of
life or death?
Is art ALWAYS that deep? Can't a painting, photograph or sculpture simply
be what it is? Does every work of art have to be forced into defending it's
worthiness in the contemporary art continuum? Can a painting of a tree just
be a painting of a tree and not convey some dark, Freudian secret lingering
in the mind of its artist?
Michael Corbin on 04.18.05 @ 08:33 AM EST [more..]
Thursday, April 14th
NYC 4: Hangin in the Hood
 The streets are full of people walking around without jackets. Those big furry Polish hats that look like a cat sleeping on some older gentleman's head have all disappeared. It seemed to happen over night. Spring has sprung in Greenpoint. One day it was hovering above freezing and the next it was 70 degrees. So now that the weather is nicer I've been visiting the studios of local artists the last couple weeks. Among my several visits was Wayne Dobson's studio on Clay Street. Wayne is a self-taught painter doing large abstract paintings. He creates a field of wet into wet textures much like the marbleized papers often used as end papers in handmade and high quality books. Then he paints back into these fields of color and texture finding interesting shapes and cutting positive negative relationships with flat color on top of the textures. The flat hue or tone become backgrounds flipping the field making what was once beneath feel like they are now on top—it is called reversing the field or pos/neg reversals.
Walter King on 04.14.05 @ 09:27 PM EST [more..]
Tuesday, April 12th
M3SUMMIT
 You would have to be living under a rock to not know that the week of March 23-26th is the Winter Music Conference in Miami, celebrating its 20th year. Every single DJ that is worth his spin has descended upon Miami for this event. Forget Art Basel, this event rivals that of the commercial Air and Sea Show in Ft. Lauderdale in terms of attendance. Every hotel was completely booked, and the last night culminating with the ULTRA Festival at Bayside, saw more cars in the road than rush hour traffic in New York City. (It was calculated that there were over 75,000 attending the concert). While that may make people nervous, I can tell you that it is also pleasing. People are coming to Miami for "music." They are coming for lifestyle. And in the end, they are coming to get a jolt of life. They most certainly got it during this week if they were able to stay awake for several non-stop days of endless grooving.
Laurence Gartel on 04.12.05 @ 08:57 PM EST [more..]
Saturday, April 9th
How to communicate through pictures...
Wouldn't any of us like to know how?
An artist try to communicate.
Through writing.
Through music.
Through movies.
Through pictures.
Through.....
Sometimes he succeeds. Sometimes he does not.
When his expectation are high - he might not communicate at all.
When his expectations are low - he might communicate excellently.
Every artist has his own recipe.
Mine - for example - is simple shapes and bright colors.
Even when I write.
Even when I .......
You can't always believe what is written in newspapers.
But if it is written in a book, you have to believe it.
Or?
I would like to tell you about a new book.
It is written by the French author Alain Joannes, who lives in Paris.
It is called "Communiqués par l'image" - that's French and means
"how to communicate through pictures".
It was presented at the prestigious "Salon du Livre" in Paris in March this year.
To me it sounds like it's the new bible to artists, designers etc.
You can buy this new bible at Dunod.
Believe it or not,
one of the chapters in this new book is about my painting "soul hurting still".
I'll just show the draft of the painting and quote what the author writes:
Asbjorn Lonvig on 04.09.05 @ 05:52 PM EST [more..]
Corporate valuez..zzzz...
See CORPORATE VALUES by Michael Juul Jensen at the end of this article.
Corporate values - it sounds boring. Corporate valuez..zzzz...
Storytelling has recently been the buzzword in management.
I went to a couple of storytelling seminars - zzzz..ztorytelling zzzz..zeminars!!!
Did you know that Pfizer Inc. has shown great interest in the combination
of corporate values and storytelling as a sedative drug for those who suffer from insomnia?
Managing director Henrik Thorning, president and founder of Fiberline Composites Inc.
had won the Danish Industry Initiative Award.
I always make an art work to the award winner.
I met him in his factory - I was searching for some inspiration.
He showed me everything - enthusiastically.
He told me everything - enthusiastically.
He had just finished a timeconsuming work of developing the corporate values for the company.
But they were not implemented, yet.
And.
As he saw the logo I had made to 1st grad at Hedensted school.....
Henrik Thorning was excited.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Make a story about SOFUS.
Exactly as pedagogically as the 1st grade logo.
Sure.
Sure.
And my very own storytelling concept had popped up.
A little bit of information to the reader:
Why a story about SOFUS?
Fiberline Composite Inc.'s corporate values focused on Samspil=Interplay, Ordentlighed=decency, Forudseenhed=foresight, Udfordring=challenge and Sund økonomi=Yield a profit. The initials says SOFUS.
(......in English I still will call him SOFUS. Interplay, Decency, Foresight, Challenge and Yield a profit
says IDFCY....we couldn't call him IDFCY?)
Asbjorn Lonvig on 04.09.05 @ 05:45 PM EST [more..]
Thursday, April 7th
PICTURE THIS - making art for eternity
 Before I read Dr. Michael Newton's books, "Journey of Souls" and "Destiny of Souls," "case studies of life between lives," the only conceptual visualization of "heaven" that I had was "pearly gates of Saint Peter," "winged angels with halos," and "bright white light at the end of a dark tunnel." As a fine arts artist over a life time, I hope eternity to be more than a very long time of idleness. I want to continue to be involved in the creative process, to make!
Pygoya on 04.07.05 @ 08:39 PM EST [more..]
Wednesday, April 6th
Back to MOMA
NEW YORK - Introspection is perhaps the most important tool available to an artist and yes, also an art collector. If you don't exercise the courage to look within, you cannot create a truthful work of art, nor will you be capable of recognizing one.
This makes the experience of the "new" Museum of Modern Art even more intriguing. MOMA did some serious self-examination and took the bold step toward reinvention. The result is a transformation of international proportion for people who appreciate art.
The updated MOMA is a cavernous conglomeration of boxes and rectangles made of concrete, glass, steel and wood, all dressed in white, the perfect backdrop, of course for the masterworks on display.
Michael Corbin on 04.06.05 @ 08:24 PM EST [more..]
Monday, April 4th
Taking matters in one’s own hands
Pottery expo 2005, Warrandyte, Melbourne:
A picturesque park on a river bank, colourful artwork on the display, shaded by striped airy marquees, clusters of chatting people among all that. It’s a Pottery Expo 2005 @ Warrandyte. There was a music band, aromas wafting from a bakery next door, providing gourmet focaccias and sandwiches for the hungry artists and art lovers alike. There were journalists and reporters snapping away their cameras and sharpening their pencils. Children immediately planted themselves firmly at the activities area, where everyone willing could make ephemeral sculptures out of balls of clay (generously provided by the sponsors), sticks, pebbles and anything else that could be found in the park. In no time a whole zoo grew full of caterpillars, giraffes, bugs and many more animals still unknown to the science of zoology.
Ausra Larbey on 04.04.05 @ 07:49 AM EST [more..]
Saturday, April 2nd
The Morning Light
 ...now I am alone in the silent studio with these great canvases leaning against the walls. At first I feel lost when I look at them, then I almost start to caress them. I would like them to guide my hand, to suggest what I must paint on them.
I don't know why I wanted to go back to a habit I had abandoned some time ago - that of preparing the canvases myself. Who knows, perhaps I wanted to go back to the craftsman's origins of the art of painting. Now I look at the canvas, that I have placed on the easel, as though I already wanted to see the image that would soon appear...
Alberto Sughi on 04.02.05 @ 10:04 AM EST [more..]
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