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KLIMT illustrated...Nine leading artists from the street art scene involved in making works inspired by Gustav Klimt
Lundi, 27 Août 2012 11:06
Celebrating the 150th anniversary birth of provocative Austrian artist Gustav Klimt Lazarides Rathbone Gallery and the Vienna Tourist Board invited 9 internationally renowned street art figures to create a work inspired by this artistic legacy.
Participating artists include Shepard Fairey, Lucy McLauchlan, Vhils, Christian Eisenberger, Know Hope, Bastardilla, Marlene Hausseger, Ron English and the guru of english street art, described by Jonathan Jones of "The Guardian" as "The thinking man of the British graffiti movement" - Mode 2.
The celebration was divided in two parts: first part was a live art-making session in London's Grosvenor Gardens which took place on Tuesday 21st of August from 9am to 7pm. Here all artists on a stage set up in a public garden across the road from London's Victoria station accompanied by DJ's, were painting their works creating this inspired by Gustav Klimt live street art event.
Part two of a celebration was the Klimt Illustrated exhibition opened on Friday 24th of August at Rathbone gallery in London.
The gallery exhibition will be open and available for public only until tomorrow Tuesday, 1st of September.
More on: The Guardian and Lazarides
Mode 2 at work on his graffiti painting in a public garden in London
Courtesy of: Ian Cox
Exhibition:
Klimt Illustrated
From: 24th August 2012 - 1st September 2012
How to simulate a sketchbook without using a pencil ? Applications review...
Vendredi, 24 Août 2012 12:16
We are living in a times when technology speed is amazing. Who would ever imagine 20 years ago that we will be able to simply paint and draw almost only with our finger on the telephone screen ?
Testing a new creative mobile applications for iPad, iPhone and Android devices Kit Eaton from "New York Times" magazine made an review on the newest and hottest products of this type.
The question is - how to simulate a sketchbook without using a pencil on portable and mobile devices ? New applications give us a lot of interesting and surprisingly advanced opportunities to do so.
Author did test few most popular advanced as well as more simple applications - from commercial ones to buy like: ProCreate, Pistachio or SkecthBook Mobile to free products such as Awarded by Apple Paper application, Sketch Free or Fanstasia Painter Free.
Two of the most advanced application are dedicated basically for iPad users. Most expensive one is ProCreate ( cost 5 $ ) which has many detailed Menus settings, for example: you can control the tapering shape of each stroke or how the tool reacts to the simulated graininess of the digital paper you’re drawing on. Beside many advanced options it offers also in the sketching tools menu technical pencil, the cloud effect of smudgy graphite, ink pens, paint and airbrushing for more complex effects.
In contrary to ProCreate, Paper application - the winner of Apple Design Awards 2012 - on top of many technical options and features give you also opportunity to manage your drawings in attractive “books” which you can label and file to keep your projects separately organized. Author suggest here that in order to expand full usage of this app you need to spend money on several in-app purchases to have access to many of the drawing tools.
If you do not own iPad there is a lot of other great sketching apps for iPhone and Android devices.
The applications are obviously more simple but they give also many possibilities to express your creativity. Pistacho, SkechtBook or Fantasia Painter Free - they let their users paint and draw offering variety of special built-in effects and techniques.
Technology gives us much more choice to express our creative potential these days, do you know how creative you are ?
Try one of the described applications to check it out...
More details on applications review you will find here: New York Times.
Paper screen shot - an application for iPad.
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