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The Typographic Hub has just been launched as a new initiative by UKType and Birmingham Institute of Art & Design to promote the history, theory and practice of typographic design. If you’re a typographic geek like myself, or just somebody with a passing interest then the website is well worth a browse. The Typographic Hub […]
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Eileen Cooper is a painter and printmaker and Head of the Printmaking at the Royal Academy Schools. Her unique style is one that penetrates the mind and stays with you long after you have visited an exhibition of her work. See life laid bare as we view naked women neither to skinny or to fat […]
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The work of artist Susan Hiller is described as being radical, provocative and inventive dealing with issues around death, encounters with UFOs, E.S.P., automatic writing and the artist as shaman. She cites major influences in her work as being Minimalism, Fluxus, aspects of Surrealism and her previous area of study in anthropology. Using postcards, photomat […]
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There was another fascinating BBC4 programme on Monday evening called Ego: The Strange and Wonderful World of Self-Portraits. I only caught about half of it, and mean to watch it on iPlayer over the weekend. Below are the things that struck me, but there was a lot more. I hope you’ll watch it over the […]
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Time’s short. Generally, and more specifically to get a place on our next art study visit. OCA tutor Jane Lazenby will be leading a practical study visit at York Art Gallery on the 26th March, on Dutch vanitas still life paintings. The workshop will start with a guided tour of the exhibition and will introduce […]
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This great new resource, the Google Art Project, launched yesterday, captures work from 17 museums, 9 countries, 385 gallery rooms, 1,000 high-resolution artworks (7 to 14 billion pixels), and 486 artists. Google have used similar software to zoom in on images as they have on maps, and certainly it pays off. The Google Maps ‘Street […]
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Francis Ford Coppola recently made an interesting statement in an interview about whether artists (in the broadest sense of the word) should be paid for their work. Here’s the relevant paragraph: ‘You have to remember that it’s only a few hundred years, if that much, that artists are working with money. Artists never got money. […]
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Jeff Koons, the pop artist known for making art objects from every day objects, has demanded that a shop in San Francisco stops selling book-ends that look like balloon dogs. This is because once he made art out of such objects. The logical extension of his objection is that anyone who makes or sells a […]
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Like many collage artists before him, John Stezaker is fascinated by what happens with you bring together found images to create unexpected meanings.
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Hello, my name is Christian Lloyd, OCA course author and tutor, and I’ve been invited to contribute illustration and graphic design related posts to WeAreOCA. Having eclectic personal tastes the postings may well stray into many other wonderful inter-connected areas which I hope will also be of interest. I think this might be a good […]
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