Olaf Hajek
View mystifying and enchanting works like this piece by Olaf Hajek on our tumblr.
– Karen
Unmasked
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tumblr Thursdays Roundup
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- Zeren Badar
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- Daniel Jamie Williams
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- Beth Zotter
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- Philippe Roy
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- Evelien Jaspers
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- Eva Roovers
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- Anna G.
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- erwann brun
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- mongogushi
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- Beano Gee
Fantastic beings, mummies, ghouls, and mermaids included, grace the work of our featured artists this week.
See more artist credentials and more fabulous work on our tumblr.
– Karen
There’s a New Sheriff In Town…
Javier Pérez
Javier Pérez combines found objects into imaginative doodles.
What other household objects could you transform with a pen and a piece of paper? Reply with your ideas below!
– Karen
tumblr Thursdays Roundup
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- Phoebe Kiely
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- Soisik Oger Le Goff
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- Laura Collins
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- Laramie Fain
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- Justin Angelos
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- Julia Tröndle
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- Ninh Nguyen
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- Chris O’Kelley
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- Mark Slater
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- Doubles V
Each Thursday our social media team’s excitement is practically palpable, if not discernibly visible!
This excitement stems from the opportunity presented to our dedicated team members: selecting talented artists to showcase for our growing community of slow looking art aficionados — challenge readily accepted.
Submit your own original artwork or learn more about tumblr Thursdays here.
– Karen
tumblr Thursdays Roundup
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- Doubles V
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- Daniel Valaisis
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- Zeno Martini
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- Miles Benson
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- Arianna Fischer
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- Madeline Carr
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- Soisik Oger Le Goff
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- Lee Mackey
Peruse the artistic variety provided by the talented artists who have submitted work for viewing on our tumblr page this week in the gallery above.
To submit your own artwork and to see further accreditation visit our page here.
– Karen
Slowly admiring Stephane Jaspert’s street art
As a volunteer for Slow Art Day, I am constantly reminded to admire art slowly, which has inspired me to explore the thriving global community of urban street art online and around my home in Boston for hours every week. By doing so, I have discovered numerous inspiring artists, including Stephane Jaspert.
Jaspert removes loose cobblestones from Paris and replaces them with carefully painted rocks from his studio. He adorns these rocks with images and symbols from popular culture, which represents the thousands of visual stimuli that inundate us on a daily basis. He is drawn to cobblestones because they are enduring ancient materials steeped in history. He creates a fascinating tension by highlighting the dichotomy between the strong stone materials and his paintings that will inevitably be removed by the city, or washed off by pounding footsteps and raindrops.
I reached out to Jaspert through Twitter, which led to a great dialogue about his process. He shared an anecdote with me about his experience in 2005 installing one of his pieces, Formula One. This particular cobblestone was adorned with an image of a Formula 1 racecar (pictured below), which had to be installed in front of the city hall of the 4th “arrondissement” (one of Paris’ 20 districts) with a bit of deceit. He related to me how he used his son’s stroller to block the view of a police officer who might have stopped him from removing the loose cobblestone and replacing it with Formula One. He also used the stroller to store the cement and water bottle needed to complete the installation.
I encourage Slow Art Day fans to visit his website, or follow him on Facebook or Twitter to learn more about his work.
Who are some of your favorite street artists? Leave us a response in the comment section!
– Gabrielle Peck
Slow Art Day volunteer
Slow Art Day launches “Tumblr Thursdays”
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- M.K. Hajdin
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- Fiorella Ikeue
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- Jeremy Szopinski
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- MUSTA FIOR
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- Ben W.
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- Patrick J. Donovan
Slow Art Day may still be months away, but that doesn’t stop our tumblr from continuing to share engaging and provoking art to a growing community of followers!
The dedicated Social Media team for our tumblr have unveiled a new institution to help foster Slow Art Day’s involvement in the tumblr Art community by supporting budding artists.
“Tumblr Thursdays,” replacing “Themed Thursdays,” which similarly encouraged follower participation in submitting relevant art for each theme, continues this outreach to the community. Artists can now submit their original work to be shown to a wide and diverse audience through our movement’s efforts.
The above gallery showcases the inaugural crop of many talented artist submissions that will be published. For further information on the artist click on each image for relevant links.
You can see the work selected for each Tumblr Thursday here.
Slow Art, Fast City
Slow Art Fast City from Raw Footage Films on Vimeo.
“Beyond slow looking we had no rules. We weren’t looking for anything, we didn’t have to like what we saw, there would be no wrong way to look or right way either.“
See video coverage of founder Phil Terry’s 2013 Slow Art Day event embedded above from Raw Footage Films. Phil’s event took place at the Brooklyn Museum with each participant viewing five works. Each viewer was eager to view these hand-selected works and discuss the experience afterwards.
The group felt gratified knowing that “while our conversation was specific and personal,” 270+ venues across the world were having their own “attentive and unmediated” conversations about art. As the fast-paced antics of New York City beckoned at the close of the event, the participants left gratified with a new awakening to the benefits of slow looking.
Feeling inspired?
Don’t forget it’s never too early to sign up as a host or to participate in a 2014 venue near you.
Was your Slow Art Day event similarly invigorating? Share your experiences below in the comments!
Host Reports: Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth, Australia
[In this series, we will be posting reports from Slow Art Day hosts around the world who held Slow Art Day events on April 27, 2013. This week, we are featuring the Slow Art Day event run by Susan Way, held at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth, Australia]
Hi Everyone,
Slow Art Day was celebrated at the Art Gallery of Western Australia by featuring four photographs from the Picturing New York: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art exhibition. The day was a great success and started with 15 participants. As our Voluntary Gallery Guide, Alan Ruda, ushered visitors slowly around the exhibition more and more people gathered. By the second set of photographs there were easily 40 people participating. By the end of the tour there were between 60 and 70 people crowded around Michael Wesely’s 7 August 2001-7 June 2004 The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Henri Cartier-Bresson’s An Eye at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The group had high energy and were very interested. In the end, Alan suggested the group break into smaller groups and go back to the photos that really interested them. Everyone was very happy with this and Alan spent another hour answering specific questions and listening to the keen observations visitors made about the artwork.
We had organised to take photographs as a small group retired to coffee and conversation in our Manhattan Lounge. However the sheer number of participants prevented this from happening – which is a positive in our eyes. Our day may not have gone exactly as we imagined it, nevertheless to quote Alan, “It was a heck of a lot of fun!”
Regards,
Sue
“Curating in an attention deficit”
Todd Smith, Executive Director at the Tampa Museum of Art, recently filmed a video for the Tampa Bay Business Journal on what he’s observed as the change in how people view art. He compares the anachronistic way of focusing intently on one subject that is characteristic of his generation (“vertical” thinking) with the new wave of technologically-centred “horizontal” thinking. This brings to the fore a new challenge for art museums, like the Tampa Museum of Art, in how they educate visitors who are not accustomed to “vertical” or deep thinking. Smith poses the question “what does a museum experience look like, now and going forward for both my generation and older… and the younger generation?”
Smith sees this new way of thinking revolutionizing how museums curate their exhibitions, based on their observations of whether visitors take their time and look at works slowly or if they jump around and “make their own stories”. Smith foresees this adding another dimension to curating, in that “we’ll put the work up and tell our story, but we are interested in what the visitor is making of their own stories about the work,” essentially thinking of the visitor as the curator.
At Slow Art Day we, of course, advocate for a slow looking that fosters the “vertical” or deep thinking cited by Smith. Postulating the visitor as curator has the potential to foster a freer way of thinking that might lead to this kind of deeper, or “vertical”, way, vs. the merely “horizontal”. What do you think?