This is a picture of 10,000 hopefuls bumrushing the gate to take exams to get into art school in China. A bit more fierce than the “talent test” of trying to draw Tippy the Turtle or the pirate for the Draw Me! School.
Check out the rest of the photo essay, including the exam and judging, here.
Here’s something for a monday morning that, while being cute and adorable, is hard to scoff at. Wang Yue has taken to creating her art in the knots and tree holes around Shijiazhuang, capital city of Hebei Province. While art will always have a place on canvas, I think the culture as a whole gets elevated when it’s pushed forward and presented “outside of the box.” To me, technical skill has become less and less of a primary concern and creativity has really taken over. Granted you still gotta have some skills but we’ve already seen what the Masters have done and there’s plenty of people on the photorealistic tip. Wang Yue’s creativity is something I can actually feel.
It’d be really funny if she became as popular as Banksy and people started digging up the trees like they do with ripping his stencils off of walls. Then there could be a war between art thieves and the tree hugger army. I digress.
via IU2 & TwistedSifter
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Unbeknownst to the buff, they were providing a canvas and being part of an unwilling street art collaboration, “…and so a strange harmony was found between two opposing forces.”
Spoke Art unleashes another beast today with Tim Doyle‘s follow up from last year, “Unreal Estate II.” As they put it he will “once again remap our collective consciousness through a whole new series of re-imagined iconic pop-culture locations.” In simple terms, he recreates iconic places of interest from the canon of some of the best fictional tv shows, from Twin Peaks to The Simpsons.
The irony here is double edged seeing as art in itself is inherently a fictionalized form of reality. In this sense “UnReal Estate” is a fictionalized account of fictional places. Double down on that when you throw in Arrested Development, the Bluth home wasn’t a real home either, it was just a model. Bam!
Forget all the babble though cuz it wouldn’t mean anything if the art looked like crap anyway. But it doesn’t. It’s pretty awesome. The opening is tonight at Spoke Art in San Francisco AND the first 100 people there get a special, not-for-sale print. Daaaaaamn.
A couple Saturdays ago in Knile’s link roundup there was a link to the Strange Fruits project by Sarah Illenberger (via designboom.) It reminded me of an artist I’ve been watching for a couple of months. Enter the food art/manipulation of Dan Cretu…
Did you know they have sketchbooks in Hungary? And that they have pens too?!?! János Kőrös knows this dirty little secret and exploits it like a fat kid in a cake factory (there haven’t been enough 50 Cent references in the world lately). Anyway, these are just a few examples of some amazing ink he’s putting down in his moleskines. Check his page out for more.
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