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Mardi Gras, Masks and Typography
In advance of Fat Tuesday! Here’s a combination of Venice and New Orleans. This is Gabriela Coutinho’s Venice Carnavale 2008. The costumes are wonderful: And from Irishaikidoka on YouTube: Hermes Wrestling for Pollens Float 18, just this past Friday night: I’ll have to ask my brother it this was his float. Here’s an interesting story behind a commissioned Sri Lankan Mask. And something we use everyday — not a cover up but maybe a hidden art — of creating typography. There is an interesting lecture tonight at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, called “The Designing Type: The Work of Matthew Carter. He is a founder of the fonts: Verdana, Georgia,…
Credit
I just had to write about this odd set of circumstances. A relatively unknown poster artist gets overnight acclaim during the presidential campaign. His posters of the now President are seen everywhere. He’s making money. He gets his own and first solo gallery opening. He then gets arrested for tagging while on the way to the Boston exhibit. Oh, by the way, he’s also being accused of by the Associated Press of Copyright infringement. Wow! What an strange turn of events. All I can say is why blow it and just not give credit in the first place? All artists get ideas and use references from many different sources. If…
WPA
Works Progress Administration (WPA) was created in the 1930’s during the Great Depression to help employ folks, including artists to draw, paint, document and create our nation’s public art and public works in general, like bridges and highways. Hey, here’s a concept maybe worth repeating. There was an exhibit this fall at the University of Kentucky of many of these works. Sadly a well known sculptor, Robert Graham, has just died. His sculptures were used for the Franklin Roosevelt Memorial in DC. This is a wonderful memorial to see at night.
