December 16, 2012

Who’s your favorite artist?

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orukamachi: For those who may be wondering: He’s painting in the eye. Here’s what I recently discovered whilst doing a Japanese translation assignment: Garyoutensei - 画竜点睛 - literally means ‘to draw the dragon’s pupils’. The English equivalent would be ‘put the finishing touches to.’ The idea is that a picture is merely a picture, until the eye is drawn in. At that point, the picture becomes alive. The act itself is symbolic of awakening a deity. As such, on statues and images of Buddha, deities, mythical beasts, and even worldly creatures and animals, the eye is always the last thing to be painted in, with great ceremony. After all, you wouldn’t want to wake up a god only for it to find you’d not finished his legs yet. Here, they’ve asked Hawkeye to paint in the hawk’s eye, bringing his namesake to life. Wonderful. I can’t decide what I feel most nerdy about today: languages, sumi-e, Avengers or Renner. Update: the Chinese rendering is apparently 画龙点睛 - but don’t ask me how it’s pronounced.
thefinalimage: Duck Amuck, 1953 (dir. Chuck Jones)
The practice of art isn’t to make a living. It’s to make your soul grow.

— Kurt Vonnegut (via eanomi)

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nietodickens: “Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.” —Constantin Brancusi
grantlegan: St Peters Basilica
chagalov: Fernand Léger in his atelier, rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Paris, 1952 -by Étienne Ostier  [+] from LiveAuctioneers
I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.

— Marc Jacobs (via meetjulie)

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larameeee: (via Pascale Archambault)
theblackbook: Franz Erhard Walther
theblackbook: Bastille - Aurélien Arbet