Tag: Art Institute of Chicago
122 posts
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Portable Typewriter related to James Rosenquist?What do pale tan lithographs have in common with bright pink typewriters?
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Russian textile or Atari 2600 game?It would be cool to see the Pitfall game recreated as a textile by Sosnev Amalgamated Textile Mills.
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Exploring timeless creativity: A peek at Peru’s Paracas cultureDid you know? The same culture that crafted adorable pottery also sketched epic geoglyphs viewable from the skies!
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Flowers in hommage of Brice MardenUsing artificial intelligence to make a painting in honor of abstract painter Brice Marden
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Staffordshire Pottery Houses in a major art museumIf you ever wanted to own artwork from a major museum for just $51, here's your chance.
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19th century chair as a TransformerI might have gone too far. I have come up with three different Transformer names for this 19th century armchair in the Art Institute’s collection.
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Rough pigs by Charles Émile JacqueThe roughness of how these pigs are drawn seems to be more accurate for how they are in real life.
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That random piece of art history would make a great coloring pageYou can be the person who loves to color random artwork that was never meant to be colored.
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Sailing from a quiet to violent seascapeSo quiet. The exhaust from one tiny ship pulling a grand sailboat. The exhaust floats into the sky like the larger clouds. Then...
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Japanese falling leavesFalling leaves like Japanese characters read downward vertically on a page.
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Velvet giving illusion of depthCrawling up into the nooks and crannies of a fabric scrap.
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Comparing the cost of an Art Institute of Chicago membershipLet's get into the math of buying regular tickets at the ticket window versus getting an annual membership.
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Leprechaun vs PataikosHello little green person. You look like a leprechaun, but you come from Ancient Egypt.
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Cat lovers will love the feline art from the Art Institute of Chicago’s collectionSearching for 'feline' instead of cat yields more ancient results.
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Medieval armor as cubism?Do a search for "cubism" on the Art Institute of Chicago's website, and you'll get some medieval armor.
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The mystery of Odilon Redon’s aquatic creaturesThe French symbolist painter Odilon Redon got a kick out of putting eyeballs on things. But why?
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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.
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How we each discover Bob RossToday's first encounters with Bob Ross are a bit different than the 1980s and 1990s.
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Cool baseball hats for the Art Institute of ChicagoDoes the Art Institute of Chicago have any cool baseball hats?
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Ah Paris, even back in 1869 it had the romantic aged patinaIn 1869 Paris would these buildings be new or really old?
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Indian shawl or Joseph Beuys wool?Crop an image to have a new vision on the world.
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Adorable Silly Guardian SculpturesEvidence that the Art Institute of Chicago really loves guardian statues.
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
