Though not as famous as his friend Hockney, Kitaj continually challenged his own techniques and dedicated his entire life to the brush. If you wish to see some of his works visit Tate Modern or buy Kitaj
Archive | March, 2012
Jer Thorp : The Weight of Data
Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada, currently living in New York. Coming from a background in genetics, his digital art practice explores the many-folded boundaries between science and art. Recently, his work has been featured by The New York Times, The Guardian, Scientific American, The New Yorker, and the CBC. Thorp’s [...]
Josh Ritter: Love Is Making Its Way Back Home
Artupdate Learning – Pop Art Focus: Rauschenberg’s Foundation Could Outspend Warhol’s
The Robert Rausch-enberg Foundation is intending to increase the scale of its operations dramatically over the next 15 years. By then, it will be one of the largest grant-making bodies for the visual arts in the US, distributing as much, if not more, money every year than the Andy Warhol Foundation. It will also fund [...]
Artupdate Learning – Pop Art Focus: Robert Rauschenberg
How do you want history to describe your association with Jasper Johns? We were the only people not intoxicated with the abstract expressionists. We weren’t against them, but we weren’t interested in taking that stance. Both of us felt there was too much exaggerated emotionalism around their art. My first break was that nobody took [...]
Artupdate Learning – Pop Art Focus: Derek Boshier
Derek Boshier has taught in London but currently lives in America. To see Derek Boshier’s wonderful works visit Derek’s site
Banal Chic Bizarre 2012-13 A/W COLLECTION
Artupdate Learning – Pop Art Focus: Roy Lichtenstein
Did you think when you started to do these parodies that you were doing something that Picasso had done? Did that sort of give you licence? Or did you only realise afterwards? I realised afterwards. Picasso’s always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting [...]
Google Now Accepting Student Applications For Its 2012 Summer of Code
Google has officially opened registration for this year’s Summer Code. Started in 2005, the program offers paid internships for students who want to code open-source projects. The three-month-long global program pays university students a stipend to work on open-source projects with mentors in the field. Students apply to be part of the program and, if accepted, [...]
Artupdate Learning – Pop Art Focus: James Rosenquist
Yeah, yeah. I don’t need many materials. You need an idea, but the tools of oil painting are really simple. The great paintings in museums around the world are merely minerals mixed in oil, schmeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig’s ear (that’s where the Chinese bristle brush comes from). [...]
