Philthy Conversations with Artists

Artspan.com is your key to over 30 web portals full of art resources and information. Each portal introduces you to the medium, offers online articles, and links you to Artspan members working in the field. There are lists of resources in the form of Education, Museums, Galleries, Books, Publications, Suppliers, and more.

Every week the Artspan Blog will celebrate one of its portals. This week:

ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY

Featured artist: J Myers

Though examples of abstract photography can be found as early as the 1830s, it didn’t become a self-conscious form of image making until the early 20th century. It generally ran in parallel to abstract art, both in response to Realism’s decades-long ideology that photography must be documentary. The first publicly exhibited abstract photographs were Erwin Quedenfeldt’s Symmetrical Patterns from Natural Forms, shown in 1914… read more

FEATURED GALLERY

Belfast Exposted
Belfast, Ireland

Founded in 1983 as a community photography initiative, Belfast Exposed Photography now functions as a gallery for contemporary photography with emphasis on commissioning and publication of new work.

FEATURED BOOK

Abstract Photography Techniques
by Kenneth Stephen Karsten

FEATURED EVENT

Photography Exhibition 12-10-2008 thru 02-14-2009 The Silver Eye Center for Photography 1015 East Carson Street Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 412-431-1810, back to world calender

Deadline: October 18, 2008 The Silver Eye Center for Photography, the oldest non-profit organization in Western Pennsylvania dedicated solely to the understanding and appreciation of photography as an art form, invites photographers to submit entries for their juried Fellowship Competition and their New Works Galleries. Juror for Fellowship 2008: Ariel Shanberg, Executive Director of the Center for Photography at Woodstock. One photographer will be selected to receive $5,000 and have a one-person exhibition in the Main Gallery of Silver Eye. Ten photographers will be recognized with the distinction of Honorable Mention. They will receive $100 and will be invited to exhibit one photograph each.15203 Or call 412/431-1810. Visit their website.

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A thoughtful look at buying art now. Click here to read.

Visit artspan.blogspot.com for an upcoming interview with KV Abbott.

Check out a blog about Philadelphia art that mentions the Dirty Frank’s show Rick Wright and Anders Hansen were recently in. Click here.

Okay, so it won’t necessarily get you an A in art class or a job interview…but your daydreamy doodling can be the key to becoming a ‘real person’ online. Instead of one artist among thousands, your doodles and drawings and scraps of thought can help people fall in love with your serious artwork.

If you are the kind of person who drinks coffee and doodles all over your napkins, who writes little bits of poetry, or profound or silly observations, just to collect them in a shoe box or toss them out later, then halt!

Instead, DO THIS:

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This blog will serve as the organic space connecting the information, ideas, and notes I am collecting for Artspan’s online marketing. There is such an abundance of notes and strategies, many that link to each other, that I wanted to find a way to present them all that would be organized and yet reflect their multiple connections. Plus, since blogging is a large part of internet marketing, I thought this might be a good space to sort of storyboard and experiment with what could be done with an artspan blog.

Sumi-e Ink on Paper, by Nina Alvrez