Art & Art Institute of Chicago (intersection of tags)
867 Art posts • 122 Art Institute of Chicago posts • 109 in common
- Leprechaun vs PataikosHello little green person. You look like a leprechaun, but you come from Ancient Egypt.
- Cat lovers will love the feline art from the Art Institute of Chicago’s collectionSearching for 'feline' instead of cat yields more ancient results.
- Medieval armor as cubism?Do a search for "cubism" on the Art Institute of Chicago's website, and you'll get some medieval armor.
- The mystery of Odilon Redon’s aquatic creaturesThe French symbolist painter Odilon Redon got a kick out of putting eyeballs on things. But why?
- Who gave the famous “Elaine” painting to the Art Institute of Chicago?The mystery of who owned San Francisco's most famous painting in 1875.
- How we each discover Bob RossToday's first encounters with Bob Ross are a bit different than the 1980s and 1990s.
- Cool baseball hats for the Art Institute of ChicagoDoes the Art Institute of Chicago have any cool baseball hats?
- Indian shawl or Joseph Beuys wool?Crop an image to have a new vision on the world.
- Adorable Silly Guardian SculpturesEvidence that the Art Institute of Chicago really loves guardian statues.
- 8 ways to enhance an art museumHow would you reimagine an art museum? The Art Institute of Chicago called on teens to reinvent and vamp up the museum experience. The competition, Re:Imagine, asked for ideas to make the museum more engaging and multi-sensory, using any creative…
- Why did I illuminate Winslow Homer with free internet fonts?Yesterday I set out to illuminate Homer’s paintings using a silly font-selecting method: Pick the free fonts based primarily on their name alone. What was my motivation? One of my friends asked, “I am curious why you underwent this exercise…
- Using a silly font-picking method to illuminate Winslow HomerWinslow Homer’s paintings are full of dichotomies. Earlier this week, I uncovered eight paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection with wonderful dual meanings. Themes like life and death captured in one painting. To really punch these double interpretations,…
- Winslow Homer DualitiesRather mind-blowing that the Art Institute of Chicago has 184 of Winslow Homer’s artworks. Usually when I look an artist in their catalog, there are 4 results. Maybe 10. Sometimes it might balloon up to 16. But here are one…
- Put Edvard Munch’s phrase “painted by a madman” on any artworkA long-time art world mystery has been solved. A hidden message exists in Edvard Munch’s famous painting “The Scream”. Written in pencil in the corner of the painting reads, “Can only have been painted by a madman”. Who could have…
- 1st century Ancient Romans held their personal belongings in cute containersDuring the first century, what did the Ancient Romans use to hold their stuff? Answer: Very cute containers! The Art Institute of Chicago’s collection has this adorable 1st century Roman container for personal items: I love how this looks like…
- Idea: An artificial intelligence tool that lists artists most similar to your artWhat if there was a tool that could tell you which artists in art history are most like your artwork? Upload 20 images of your artwork to this tool. Based on your art, a list of artists is generated most…
- Relaxing gray washes by Pierre Antoine MonginThese Versailles trees in gray wash are relaxing. I really enjoy how this artwork is cropped by my modified version of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Art Tab. (This is a Chrome add-on that displays art in new browser tabs.…
- 16th century Switzerland textiles that look like bitmap artIt is my greatest desire that some video game midi music play in the background while this is displayed. Are there other examples of 16th century Switzerland textiles with bitmap art? I’m googling: Switzerland 16th century textile Google is not…
- Making art on toilet paper from an art museumWhat is the toilet paper like from various art museums? In 2018, I wrote a draft about making art with toilet paper. I never published it, because, well, this is a weird project. Now that toilet paper has surfaced as…
- The contemplative skulls of El GrecoNeed a moment to quiet your busy life and meditate on your mortality? Meditate on some skulls. Do you love skulls? Then you’ll love the El Greco exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. Do you find skulls creepy? You’ll…
- Art Institute’s Art Tab highlights from February 2020Here are 28 of my favorite artworks displayed in February 2020 from the Art Tab Chrome extension. Every time you open a new browser tab, you get a different work of art from the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection. Tribune…
- Drawing as thinkingA couple weeks ago I started a project where on my lunch break, I go the Art Institute of Chicago, stand in front of an artwork, and sketch it. I set out with this project to help improve my drawing…
- The third guardian lion at the Art Institute of ChicagoAnother Guardian Lion‽ A pair of famous lions guard the entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago. Inside the museum resides another guardian lion. This unknown distant cousin comes from Cambodia. It currently sits guard at the entrance to one…
- Sketch every artwork in a museumImagine drawing everything in the Museum of Modern Art. And then doing it again a second time. That’s what artist Jason Polan did. Unfortunately, Jason, a 37-year-old, passed away last week. Only last week did I discover his artwork (due…
- Art Institute’s Art Tab highlights from January 2020Imagine every time you open a new Chrome tab, you get a new work of art. The Art Institute of Chicago’s Google extension, Art Tab, places a random image from their giant collection into every new Chrome browser tab. Very…
- Xerox selfies in front of art museumsI’d like to stand outside an art museum with a xerox machine, offering pedestrians the opportunity to make their own xerox selfie. All day long, visitors look at art behind glass. Give these visitors a chance to have a memorable,…
- Fun security guards at art museumsEver come across a fun or interesting security guard at an art museum? Here’s my encounter with a security guard at the Art Institute of Chicago sharing her love of tiny details of paintings, encouraging visitors to get closer to…
- Discovering Cloisonnism and the incredible French artist Louis AnquetinThe Impressionist painters are known for their atmospheric treatment of scenes, loose brushwork that takes precedence over lines and contours. Yet in the midst of the Impressionism galleries in the Art Institute of Chicago stands a painting with strong lines…
- Greeting cards as artWhat do you do with all the greeting cards you receive? Keep them in a pile and then eventually recycle them? Perhaps you keep a hand-selected group, storing them in a box. Or maybe you put the greeting cards on…
- Warhol wallAndy Warhol. The art world darling. The Art Institute of Chicago is putting on a big Warhol show. Members get a special preview during October 17-19, 2019. Can’t get into the members preview of the Warhol show? Get a cool…
- Capturing sharp details from drawings in an art museumThe collection of 17th century Dutch and Flemish drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago is a nice display of work. Especially impressive is the large sign at the front of the exhibit. The Art Institute blew up a 6-inch…
