There is a time and a place for everything.
There is a time and a place for everything.
Alan’s new novel is out.
I’m about to read it.
This is because Hamlin is a fruity cakes king.
Likes egg whites and tomatoes. And chickens.
New York-based artist Mickalene Thomas.
Thomas introduces a complex vision of what it means to be a woman and expands common definitions of beauty. Her work stems from her long study of art history and the classical genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life. Inspired by various sources that range from the 19th century Hudson River School to Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse and Romare Bearden, she continues to explore notions of beauty from a contemporary perspective infused with the more recent influences of popular culture and Pop Art. via Mickalene Thomas
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Call For Nonfiction
100 x 500 Marco Polo seeks creative nonfiction and will publish the best 100 entries. Your nonfiction must be no longer or shorter than 500 words, title excluded. Break out of the mold and surprise us and yourself. Top prize winner will receive a hardcover edition of Under The Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, a journal, and a film on DVD, probably an awesome French film. Deadline: December 31st 2012 with selected entries published before and after the deadline. Winning work and all published and remaining selected work announced January 2013. Send submissions and/or questions to marcopoloartsmag@gmail.com
100 x 100 One Hundred Short Shorts, One Hundred Words Long. Submit a short short containing 100 words, no more, no less, title excluded. The 100 stories chosen from submissions will be published in Marco Polo. Best story will be named and will win a hardcover edition of Vitamin P2.
Deadline: June 1st 2012
Only one submission per author. Winning short and list of winners will be announced in June 2012.
Send submission to marcopoloartsmag@gmail.com
My piece, End of Silence, installed in the atrium of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, in Athens, GA. Created by layering thousands of hand-cut and painted sheets of mylar on a glass wall.
Sometimes boundaries can be the most wonderful gifts you can give yourself as an artist. Monochromatic color schemes create an almost instant harmony, in that you are only working with one hue, and relying on alternative factors like value and saturation to create drama, contrast, or visual interest. However, these are not necessarily bad things. Subtlety in art can be a powerful tool, just as dissonance, or a sense of disharmony, can also be powerful (in carefully considered amounts).
We’ll talk more about Color Harmonies and Schemes, including those designed to engender measured levels of dissonance, on Monday. Until then, have a great week and weekend!
All New: Featuring Sarah Beckwith, Nathaniel Tower, Adam Moorad and Ela Bittencourt www.marcopoloartsmag.com