The mystery of Odilon Redon’s aquatic creatures
The French symbolist painter Odilon Redon got a kick out of putting eyeballs on things. But why?
Fun with the Art Institute of Chicago
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 Ross
Today’s first encounters with Bob Ross are a bit different than the 1980s and 1990s.
Cool baseball hats for the Art Institute of Chicago
Does the Art Institute of Chicago have any cool baseball hats?
Ah Paris, even back in 1869 it had the romantic aged patina
In 1869 Paris would these buildings be new or really old?
Adorable Silly Guardian Sculptures
Evidence that the Art Institute of Chicago really loves guardian statues.
8 ways to enhance an art museum
How 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 methods. 52 wonderful ideas were submitted. Eight of them really stood out. Concepts like scratch-n-sniff …
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 Matt”. I asked myself the same question as I was doing this. A handful reasons …
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Using a silly font-picking method to illuminate Winslow Homer
Winslow 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, I had fun photoshopping two words onto each painting. Each word is really BIG—as in …
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Winslow Homer Dualities
Rather 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 hundred and eighty-four! One of the top images is a watercolor of a man rowing …