MLPM Studio Arts

LEAF One: Plein Air Paper Mache My first attempt at sharing my art-making. I’m experimenting with doing sculpture from life - Plein Air Sculpture if you will. I am working with Paper Mache ...

I love these, especially the ass spirals! 😂 ❤️

In 1981, more than 20 ceramic human figurines reclining on chairs and bearing elaborate incised decorations were unearthed in northeastern Romania. They, and many other figurines like them—such as the one pictured at right—were made by a people we know today as the Cucuteni culture, which lasted from 4800 to 3000 B.C. in what is now Romania and Ukraine. Some scholars have interpreted these lines as representations of body modification. “They could be tattoos,” says San Francisco State University archaeologist Douglass W. Bailey. “Some say they are clothes, or they could represent something else we don’t understand. We will never know for sure, but in a sense, that’s unimportant. What’s important is that they were using the surface of their bodies to communicate ideas, whether they related to membership in a group or individual identity.” He notes that earlier Paleolithic figurines such as the Venus of Willendorf were unmarked, and that incisions on the bodies of figurines only appear after the beginning of the Neolithic, when ceramics were first made and decorated. “In the Neolithic, people were incising pots by taking a sharp point and cutting away the clay,” says Bailey. “If the pot was a metaphor for the body, that process of engraving could have also been seen as tattooing.” While the practice might have existed in Paleolithic times, there is no evidence for tattooing before 7,000 years ago. Perhaps it was only after the first pots were decorated that people began to contemplate making permanent changes to their own skin’s appearance.

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/107-features/tattoos/1349-cucuteni-figurine-romania-neolithic

Seeing is an interpretation of physical reality, not a straightforward recording.

This Optical Illusion Has a Revelation About Your Brain and Eyes Your pupils may be dilating when you see images like this one as your brain tries to anticipate the near future.

Warhol takes over the world (of Pittsburgh).

The Andy Warhol Museum Is Building a $60 Million, Six-Block 'Pop District' in an Attempt to Turn Pittsburgh Into a Cultural Hub Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum is creating a six-block Pop District, with workforce development for local youth and a new performance venue.

Out of my mind in love with this.

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Yes, fashion is art is political. J’adore.

The Politics of Rihanna’s Pregnancy Style When the right to control your own body and the right to dress how you like intersect.

Gotta check this place out come April. I wasn’t selected this year, but I’ll gun more intentionally next year. I love this trend in using sculpture to create underwater reefs. Coral Restoration Foundation

Artists Revealed For Fourth UMA Installation The Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (CAA) and South Walton Artificial Reef Association (SWARA) are proud to reveal the ten sculpture designs, including the museum's first international selections, chosen by jury for permanent exhibition in the fourth installation of the Underwater Museum of....