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  • My Top Ten Favorite Sculptures

    Here is a wide assortment of sculptures from different time periods that just happen to be my very favorite ones. Some of them I have come to love for their uniqueness and the stories behind them, some of them appeal to my sense of beauty, and some of them I chose because I admire the sculptor's...
    Posted to The Junk Drawer (Weblog) by fleur_de_lis on 09-05-2008
  • My Top Ten Favorite Paintings

    It was brutal, but I chopped, axed, hewed, whittled, and cut down my list of favorite paintings to 10. You have seen a few of them on my blog, and you will see some additions to those that may be topics for future posts. Enjoy, or scratch your head and say 'Why in the heck did she pick that one?'...
    Posted to The Junk Drawer (Weblog) by fleur_de_lis on 08-31-2008
  • Radiant Babies and Flying Saucers

    Keith Haring (1958-1992)--you may not be too familiar with his name, but I am sure you have seen some of his work. Keith rose to fame in NYC by creating his drawings in the New York subway system on black paper panels with white chalk. He was a graffiti artist! His style of 'art with a message'...
    Posted to The Junk Drawer (Weblog) by fleur_de_lis on 08-21-2008
  • Fish Reflections

    At the end of the 19th century, photography replaced most realistic painting. Artists still painted portraits, landscapes, and still lives, but they began to use abstract and non-representational styles to do so. In the 1970's, a few artists began to work in a style called Photo Realism. They used...
    Posted to The Junk Drawer (Weblog) by fleur_de_lis on 08-12-2008
  • 'Blending' Library

    I thought you would enjoy this artist I came across. Her name is Desiree Palmen, and she is known for her camouflage art. Desiree takes photos of either interior or exterior areas, paints them on cotton suits to match the background, and then poses and photographs them. Here are a few more for you to...
    Posted to The Junk Drawer (Weblog) by fleur_de_lis on 08-02-2008
  • My Kind of Dinner

    I am inviting you all over for a dinner party! But, it is my kind of dinner, so some of you may not want to stay! The artist I am posting about this time is Judy Chicago. Judy is a 'feminist' artist and the work I am going to post about is entitled The Dinner Party . The Dinner Party is a huge...
    Posted to The Junk Drawer (Weblog) by fleur_de_lis on 07-30-2008
  • Extreme Sculpture...Part 2

    Haul out the dynamite... stock up on blasting caps and drill bits...hire a crew of hundreds...you're ready to carve a mountain! Yes, Mt. Rushmore is my next extreme sculpture. I've visited this awesome monument several times and urge you all to experience it as well. The 'sculptor' is...
    Posted to The Junk Drawer (Weblog) by fleur_de_lis on 07-07-2008
  • Extreme Sculpture...Part 1

    Willard Wigan, a British sculptor, is known for making the smallest works of art on earth. This type of art is known as micro-miniature art and can fit on the head of a pin, or in the eye of a needle. Willard makes these minute creations from grains of rice and sand, and paints them with a hair from...
    Posted to The Junk Drawer (Weblog) by fleur_de_lis on 07-07-2008
  • Audrey and Marilyn

    Audrey Flack (1931-?) is widely thought of as a pioneer of photo-realism, a style of art that is so realistically done that it looks like a photograph. She was committed to the idea that the greatest art is that which can be understood by everyone, not just an elite, well educated populace. Her style...
    Posted to The Junk Drawer (Weblog) by fleur_de_lis on 06-22-2008
  • A quick addendum...

    Rain, rain, and more rain here. Here is another Curry painting called Mississippi Noah that is looking more and more like my neck of the woods. I went out to check the river south of town a couple of days ago, and had to stop to let some Canadian geese and their goslings cross over in front of me from...
    Posted to The Junk Drawer (Weblog) by fleur_de_lis on 06-08-2008
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