Art History Guide

Today, I’m featuring an amateur fantasy artist and good friend, Samantha J. Aura. Sammy, is an aspiring fantasy artist oozing with talent. I find her skill and talent for creating people, characters and landscape awesome in one so young.

Interview with Samantha J. Aura

For readers to get to know Sammy I have setup some interview questions that she answered. I want to thank Samantha for allowing me to feature her on my blog. Thank you, Sammy!

Also, she has a gallery of her works at Deviant Art, Sammy J. Aura. If you are a writer of scifi/fantasy in need of fantasy and cover art for your work. I recommend that you check out Sammy’s work.

Kurt Cobain was the front man and leader of Nirvana, the band that redefined music in the 1990s. His death is still shrouded in mystery. Some believe it was a simple suicide, while many theories out there claim he was murdered. I am not sure if we will ever know the truth. Aside from music, Kurt was an extremely talented artist. His drawings, paintings and sketches have started to gain popular demand in recent years. I have collected some of my favorites and you can view them below. I definitely miss Kurt Cobain being on the scene. I think if he were still around today, he would be doing great things.

[Primary Source Kurt Cobain's Art]

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John Sims’ “The Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag,â€? created a frenzy of discussion back in March. At the time, I didn’t have a strong opinion one way or the other on the piece. I do believe that art should offend people from time to time. If a work of art sparks a discussion, then it was a success. Simply offending someone does not necessarily make something good art. At the same time, art that offends is not necessarily bad.

I do not think this particular piece will invoke the kind of rage we saw in 1989 with Dread Scott Tyler’s “What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag?” Often, I feel as if people take quick offense to a piece they do not quite understand.

John Sims has to live with his decision to display work of this nature. He already lives with continual death threats from the Ku Klux Klan. If you offend those guys, you obviously did something right. I’d have to say that the primary purpose of art is to arouse emotions and social debate, which this piece had obviously accomplished.

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Author: Olivia Hunt

Baroque appeared in Italy, and later was spread all over the Northern Europe. The Baroque period embraces roughly the time from 1600 to 1750. The word ‘Baroque’ denotes “incorrectly shaped pearl� in Portuguese, and in this meaning it best describes the different styles that are united under the Baroque heading. Caravaggio, Italian Baroque artist, is one of the most brilliant representatives of naturalism painting in the 17th century. His religious compositions address to the Counter Reformation liking for realism, austerity, and piety in art. Equally significant is his dramatic application of chiaroscuro - contrasting spaces of light and dark.

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“By the time Robert Rauschenberg completed the first of his Cardboards in 1971, he had already been breaking ground as an artist for twenty years. He first gained international acclaim in 1958 when he exhibited twenty of his Combines at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City.â€?

This is how the programme reads for the retrospective exhibition of ‘Cardboard Combines’ which are on exhibition at The Menil Collection. Cardboards and Related Pieces, at The Menil collection is on view through May 13th; so if you haven’t yet seen this wonderful exhibition then I strongly suggest you go. It was much better for me, as an artist, to forgo looking at the works during the opening hoopla and come back to experience the works on a personal and intimate level. Once you see these works I am certain you will instantly come to know what I mean in regard to a personal and intimate experience with the works.

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