Computer Generated Flowers by Macoto Murayama

Inorganic flora — Pink Tentacle

Inorganic flora
10 Aug 2009

CG illustrator Macoto Murayama takes a unique look at the organic beauty of flowers by highlighting their geometric and mechanical structure.

[h/t to Boing Boing]

Technorati Tags: art, flower, computer generated image, Macoto Murayama

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Are Artists Doing Their Cultural Job?

The Artist Formerly Known as Dissident: Artists have a duty to dissent—even against Obama - Reason Magazine

Patrick Courrielche writes:

Throughout modern history, art typically enters politics on a mass scale in two fashions: first, as a check on power; second, as a tool used by those in power. Freedom of the Press comes into play in both cases, but in very different ways. In the first case, it protects political commentary by artists. This freedom is not a garnish. It is a necessary weapon, enshrined in the Constitution for the purpose of countering contradictions, hypocrisies, and distortions made by politicians and others in power. Yet the art community has responded to the Obama administration's contradictions, hypocrisies, and distortions with near total silence.

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Memento Mori

Morbid Anatomy: Scott Holloway, "Memento Mori," August 7 - 30

Morbid Anatomy writes:

I just received an email from Morbid Anatomy reader Scott Holloway alerting me to an upcoming show of his artworks inspired by anatomical and religious works that will be on show at La Lux de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles from August 7 - 30.

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Dan Graham Retrospective evitcepsorteR maharG naD

HERE’S a good art-world quiz question, one that could stump many an astute insider: What do Sol LeWitt, Sonic Youth, Dean Martin, Mel Brooks, Merle Haggard, Hudson River School painting and midcentury New Jersey tract housing have in common?

The answer, Dan Graham — a Zelig of so many creative circles over the past four decades it is dizzying to keep track — sat recently sipping an iced tea and eavesdropping on conversations at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where a retrospective of his work opened Thursday, finally adding him to the ranks of conceptual art’s thorny 1960s pioneers to receive a full-blown American career survey.

link: Art - A Round Peg - Dan Graham, With a Whitney Retrospective, Defies a World of Square Boxes - NYTimes.com