Artspiration
Art school is hard. A long-suffering journey into inspiration.
(University of the Arts London)
[everything not tagged "my work" is not made by me]
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More helmets, I actually love the shapes, I find them very graphic!
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Tiny art! The one with the magnifying glass really impressed me : the level of skill that has to take! Also that alone is enough proof that there was professional artists in those time : the level of no life required to achieve this is impossible if you don’t get paid for it.
And I thought the second one was just plain adorable, hits you right in the feelings : it’s so simple yet you can project so much onto it. For me it looks like he’s pleading, extending a hand with eyes all sad.
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This reads “andokides made me”, which is found on a vase (i had to take a picture of the exhibition poster though, damn you glass reflection!). I find this quite funny because the feeling of DIY pride is strong in us since the dawn of ages, and the artist always signs his piece! Also how cute is it that it’s worded like the vase itself was informing the reader. This could means they already personified objects and assigned to inanimate stuff human emotion. This leads wandering minds to image greek youth complaining about how their charriot hates them or slowly muttering to their wobbling perfume vase “oh come on, don’t break, i’ll love you forever!”.
ok maybe i read too far into stuff but no one can actually disprove me, so until then, i choose to believe that this happened!
The second picture is an archer wearing a Phrygian cap, which is now symbol of liberty and the country of France, worn by its personification, the Marianne. This is the unfortunate picture I used for my card that didn’t turn out so well.
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The ballots for the votes! How cool to actually see them after reading about them so much, I was really excited!
And the second picture is just a really cool looking bowl. Isn’t this bowl really pretty? I’ll keep the picture in case I have the occasion the recreate a bowl one day!
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Perikles, a respectable looking fellow, famous head of Athenian state. I admit liking him not because of himself (he was quoted as describing the ideal woman as the one whom the men refer the less, in good or in bad) but because of Aspasia, his partner. In a perfect example of “talk the talk, don’t walk the walk”, his romantic interest Aspasia was a fierce foreign woman frequently referenced by plays and philosophers. Apparently, Persian Prince Cyrus renamed his favourite mistress after her! (i know right, crazy times!)
