Tag: Art
867 posts
- Winter’s artwork on our windowDo you like the mysterious vibe or the detailed HDR version?
- 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!
- Flowers in hommage of Brice MardenUsing artificial intelligence to make a painting in honor of abstract painter Brice Marden
- You gotta fight for your right to be arty!Let's take the famous song "Fight For Your Right" by the Beastie Boys, and make it about art.
- Why you should always carry carrots in your pocket during winterA good habit on snowy days might also result in a healthy snack for later.
- Creating joyful urban snowmen: making the most of found materialsForget rolling snowballs, transform found materials into a unique and joyful urban snowman by utilizing existing snow chunks and materials from the city's trees and curb. Bring a touch of whimsy to the cityscape by placing your creation on a…
- How to celebrate the five Illinois Poet LaureatesDid you know that each U.S. State has its own Poet Laureate?
- Pause and sit on a benchFive reasons to adopt this simple lifetime habit of sitting on a newly encountered bench.
- My new gallery—a large flat stone in the Park DistrictThinking about what artwork I can leave on this rock
- Making Xerox selfies at home with your inkjet printerToday I learned my inkjet has a copy feature—like a Xerox machine! Of course, the first thing that I do…
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- Japanese falling leavesFalling leaves like Japanese characters read downward vertically on a page.
- Velvet giving illusion of depthCrawling up into the nooks and crannies of a fabric scrap.
- Pressing leaves with storiesTips for capturing the moment when saving a leaf
- 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.
- 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.
- Naming your trees after U.S. PresidentsI will be mailing this postcard to someone who has a tree, and I will name their tree after a U.S. President.
- 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.
- Looking forward to the Lucas Museum of Narrative ArtI hope the art work is shocked by the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
- 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.
- Walking on a cloud in ParisPhotoshopping a tight rope walker onto a cloud in a Paris webcam
- Adorable Silly Guardian SculpturesEvidence that the Art Institute of Chicago really loves guardian statues.
