Facebook’s new interface Launched:
You can see the new facebook online now at http://www.new.facebook.com
It’s really buggy.
Jay Gidwitz
The Online Art Portfolio of Jay Gidwitz
Publishing
Jay Gidwitz Art Google Gadget
Here’s a “google gadget” with my art.
The picture changes every few minutes if the page is reloaded.
“Lost in a labyrinth of theory”
I unearthed a great 2005 article by Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones. The article called “Lost in a labyrinth of theory” had some great gems.
Among my favorites were:
Art today likes to think of itself as very, very clever. I understand the insecurity, but it does little for the work.
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Well, I have a debating point - [...]
Andrew Loomis Illustration ebooks
Andrew Loomis was an American illustrator known for his drawing books.
Domen Lombergar posted these links on artcone.com to download Loomis’s books. “Figure Drawing for All It’s Worth” is a must for any artist that works with the human figure. I’m not sure what the copyright status is on these, but it’s out of print.
Figure Drawing [...]
Illusions: Janelle II in print
Paper & Pixel is a Brown University/RISD student magazine. “Illusions: Janelle II” will appear in the next issue.
Thanks to Drew Durbin and John Cockrell.
Art Show
I will be showing “The Illusionist” at Hillel on April 12th for the show Rejected: The Other Student Show.
Thanks to Janelle Sing and Bevan Weissman.
“The Illusionist” will also be in the upcoming issue of “Clerestory,” a Brown student arts magazine.
Dali’s use of language in “On Modern Art”
Dali uses a number of techniques frequently throughout On modern art, to achieve his surrealistic style and tone. Some of these are (1) surrealist logic, (2) metaphor, and (3) paradox and reversal.
In his surrealist logic, his reasoning does not logically lead from one point to another, it just leaps from premise to assertion, or from [...]
