ART AROUND US

     

     Art has not always been what we think it is today. 
An object regarded as Art today may not have been perceived as such when it was first made, nor was the person who made it necessarily regarded as an artist. Both the notion of "art" and the idea of the "artist" are relatively modern terms. The Visual Arts aren't only the paintings and sculptures we see in museums and galleries, they are also found in our everyday surroundings

Amazing Graffiti artwork by MTO - Rennes, France

      
     Many of the objects we identify as art today  - Greek painted pottery, medieval manuscript illuminations, and so on - were made in times and places when people had no concept of "art" as we understand the term. 
These objects may have been appreciated in various ways and often admired, but not as "art" in the current sense.
The idea of an object being a "work of art" emerges, together with the concept of the Artist, in the 15th and 16th centuries in Italy.

     During the Renaissance, the word Art emerges as a collective term encompassing Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, a grouping given currency by the Italian artist and biographer Giorgio Vasari in the 16th century. Subsequently, this grouping was expanded to include Music and Poetry which became known in the 18th century as 
the 'Fine Arts'. These five Arts have formed an irreducible nucleus from which have been generally excluded the 'decorative arts' and 'crafts', such as as pottery, weaving, metalworking, and furniture making, all of which have 
utility as an end.

   According to William Rubin, director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, "there is no single definition of art." and the art historian Thomas McEvilley agrees that today "more or less anything can be designated as art."

Cloud art Installation by Caitlind Brown

I FOUND THAT I COULD SAY THINGS WITH COLOUR AND SHAPES THAT I COULDN’T SAY ANY OTHER WAY… THINGS THAT I HAD NO WORDS FOR.

— Georgia O’Keefe

I DREAM MY PAINTING, AND THEN I PAINT MY DREAM.

— Vincent van Gogh

IF I COULD SAY IT IN WORDS THERE WOULD BE NO REASON TO PAINT

— Edward Hopper

mood of today in London By Stanislav Sidorov

Make Room for Creative Connections by ivo111111

look up closer - Body paint

Umbrellas, Thessaloniki by Giorgos Zogolopoulos

cool make up idea

AMAZING Sculpture by Sayaka Ganz

beautiful art in the stairs! Artist Dihzahyners- Beirut, Lebanon

Gorilla Made from Colored Pencils BY Ricardo Salamanca

Amazing -Human Motorcycle Bodypaint by Trina Merry & Art alive Gallery team

future ?

Street art - hair cut by Mr thoms

 

Makoto Tojiki - Light Sculptures

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"Desnatureza" Sculpture by Henrique Oliviera

Conrad Engelhardt's Wine Cork Artwork

We love this Street art by Gert Neuhaus- Berlin

The Power of Love Street Art in Olsztyn, Poland

amazing 3D drawings

Installations by David DiMichele

The beauty of flowers

The origami of Sipho Mabona

Sipho Mabona, a young artist currently residing in Switzerland, was commissioned by ad agency Nordpol+ Hamburg to design and create the origami models for this stunning five-minute video.
The corporate movie tells the story of the Japanese sports brand ASICS. It won a Grand Prix at the Eurobest, gold at the New York festival, gold at the London International Awards, silver at the Clio in Miami and two-times bronze at ADC Germany.
Sipho has a wonderful Flickr set of origami designs — worth a look — and here are just a few of my favourites.

 The “Baby Fugu” is inflatable, seen in motion here on Vimeo.

Tips to improve blog articles

“What does it take to write a great blog post?” that's a good queastion, but maybe it should be re-phrased and turned it into a few (personal) tips. So to write a great blog post I believe it must consist of the following:  
story, readers, headlines, images, opinion.
It is very important to promote interaction and also post regularly to keep and grow you audience.

Tell us a story

If you’re like me, you don’t read blogs like you would an essay. You probably read blogs because they’re personal. Because you get to know the author in a way that isn’t shown in academic writing, or maybe you're just interested in the subject.

Address your readers

Don’t forget who you’re writing for. People will return to your blog because you’re speaking to them and not simply writing a diary. The more you can relate your words to those who are reading, the more they’ll appreciate what you’re doing and ultimately the more blogging success you’ll have.

Spend time on your headlines

A headline is the doorway to your blog post. If it’s a great headline, you’ve opened the door wide open – a reader will walk through happily, devour your content and move to the next step: read more, comment, email you etc'...

Use images

A blog post with images is much more appealing to the eye than one entirely of text. It’s more likely to be read from start to finish and can help you remember content.
Optimise images for the web so you don’t use unnecessary bandwidth. Stay clear of cheap looking clipart too — it can devalue your blog. Photographs are ideal, and illustrations can be equally effective.
Char from Essential Keystrokes writes about Thirteen Things Every Website Needs and has this to say about using images:

"A picture is worth a thousand words and a well-placed picture or graphical element will save your website from eternal loneliness."

Give us your own opinion

Splogs, or spam blogs, are rife. There’s enough duplicate content on the internet to reach from earth to the sun... Don’t add to it.
Do a little research and combine a few stories, with your own comments as you go. It’s so much more interesting than a simple regurgitation, and you’ll keep people returning to read your thoughts again and again.
Others offering their own blog tips I’m not the only one writing about this topic. Dawud shares his insight on great blog posts. Ben makes a great point of writing in bite size chunks. Leo adds the importance of cutting out what isn’t necessary. Mike writes a nice piece asking, “Do You Sound Like Your Blog?“.

 After those few tips, that I myself will try to follow, one should ask it self- what have I done recently to improve my blog?