Tag: Art
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How to sell your Art on Instagram
Last year she was a starving artist working as a waitress and living from tips in a moldy basement and now she’s a successful artist with more than a million followers and showing her work in the main galleries of New York, London and Hong Kong, her work has been auctioned for more than a…
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Murder at Tiktok Street
Last year, popular local artist, Jane Doe, had it all: a growing TikTok following, a successful art business, and a bright future. But when one of her videos is flagged and removed by the platform, her account is shadowbanned, and her following stagnates. Frustrated and resentful, Jane becomes increasingly vocal in her criticism of the…
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Secrets of my technique
Every week I started a new paragraph that supposedly will be in my blog, but I never finish, actually I barely start. So, in this small paragraphs I talk about why I paint, art fairs, drawing techniques and an endless chain of other stuff, but why I never finish them?I’m trying to generate ideas about…
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The Naming of Artworks
One of the first songs in the musical Cats from Lloyd Webber is about the Naming of Cats, a difficult matter indeed. Right now, I have a difficult time trying to name a work of art and I remembered that poem of T S Eliot that Lloyd Weber took for his musical, I’m going to…
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Would you give booze to an alcoholic?
My name is Carlos, and I am artist. I have seen some movies and read novels about AA meetings and it seems that they start introducing themselves and acknowledging that they are addicts. Being an artist is a kind of addiction? Sometimes I found myself at the stationary department at the superstore buying pens even…
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Losing my religion
Art for me is a quest about questioning my environment: my culture and within it, Religion, Spirituality, Politics, Beauty… I am who I am because of my culture, I mean, all this baggage that I carry from my ancestors, my homeland, my friends and family… But why is so important? Can I avoid it? Is…
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Inspiration or Plagiarism?
“La Poesía no es de quien la escribe, es de quien la necesita.”(Poetry is not from who writes it, it is from who needs it)El Cartero de Neruda, Antonio Skármeta What is the purpose of art? Why we make art? I said in a previous post that Art is a kind of tool for better read a problem or a…
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What is Art?
What is art? That is a question that had been avoid for any reasonable answer to me. At the beginning I was thinking that it has to do something with beauty but after painters like Picasso, Cezanne or Van Gogh, I don’t know how describe beauty anymore, beauty is fragile and very subjective. Then I…
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Flag (After Jasper Johns)
I took this photograph a few days ago and I didn’t know what to do with it, I just loved the way the light bath the cloth and instinctively I shoot it. A few days later in one of my Facebook groups ask us to make an art project using an ordinary object from our…
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Do you want to draw with me?
Since the beginning of this year I had the idea of upload a drawing course, but the idea of filming and talk in public is hard to take for me now, maybe in the future. but that shouldn’t be an obstacle to start something, so why not start it as a blog? So why don’t…
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