tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186807652024-03-14T00:44:32.495-07:00ArteAbstractStephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.comBlogger204125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-8409563876458506732009-08-21T21:55:00.000-07:002009-08-22T21:26:19.326-07:00OUTRAGE:Disney to Remake Yellow SubmarineOriginal artwork by designer Heinz Edelmannfor "Inside the Yellow Submarine"ArticleI just found out that Robert Zemeckis is going to create a 3-D remake of Yellow Submarine in the style of his new Jim Carrey animated film, A Christmas Carol, via Disney. I have a diatribe ready to burst forth from my lips, but the outrage keeps it from doing so. Therefore, I will keep this brief. As a huge Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-467861843236763042009-08-17T19:23:00.001-07:002009-08-17T19:29:34.771-07:00Daniel Edwards is At it AgainClick on the photo for story....Daniel Edwards' sculpture of Angelina Jolie, "Landmark for Breastfeeding," goes on display next month at the Mainsite Contemporary Art Museum.Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-31407340407887104652009-07-19T19:54:00.000-07:002009-07-19T20:00:16.359-07:00It's About TimeThe Obamas plan to diversify and update the current White House Art Collection and it is about time. This is a welcome change in my opinion. The White House is the home of the person who is supposed to be President of ALL the American people. The current collection doesn't really reflect that given the portraits of ex-Presidents and First Ladies as well as a taste for very safe, conservative Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-34087977466803304752009-07-02T19:20:00.000-07:002009-07-03T15:37:34.606-07:00ART CLASSIC #7Farrah Fawcett:The Actress, Artist, and InspirationB. February 2, 1947; D. June 25, 2009Farrah Fawcett died last week and was buried Tuesday. Most articles have focused on her obvious sex appeal, but Farrah and the other Angels as well as Lynda Carter in Wonder Woman and Lindsay Wagner in The Bionic Woman were very formative role models as a girl in the seventies without liberated parents. Farrah was the face of the Angels, a group of smart, liberated, and powerful women who solvedStephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-1734041088562293972009-04-26T21:19:00.000-07:002009-04-26T21:30:52.297-07:00Winners from the Spring Student Show -- 2009This semester was a banner semester for my Introduction to Painting students. I had 10 students have 13 paintings win honorable mentions or better. Yea!Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-54764839988273386182008-10-13T19:43:00.001-07:002008-10-13T19:46:14.565-07:00Crystal Bridges Reveals Modernist WorksArticlePhoto SourceStephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-89228400415204418442008-10-13T09:57:00.001-07:002008-10-13T10:13:01.155-07:00Some Poignant Images From the Past:Visual Lessons for TodayIn the current economy, George Grosz's (1893 - 1959) drawings become more and more relevant (click on the images for larger versions):The CapitalistGreed "Let those who can swim, swim, and whoever is too weak sinks."Greed 2DiningThe Homeless"Getting By"The Homeless 2 "Careful. Don't Trip"Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-39854565603650771552008-10-11T18:54:00.000-07:002008-10-11T18:56:55.588-07:00From The GuardianMy Life in Art: The Day Bourgeois Moved Me to TearsStephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-80031255900989142722008-09-30T11:17:00.000-07:002008-09-30T11:27:24.453-07:00Now That's a LiteBrite Design!Ye Olde LiteBriteLinkYes, Gen-Xers, this is made with the principles from the one and only LiteBrite of yore.Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-90601570607463213672008-09-27T16:25:00.000-07:002008-09-27T16:35:15.836-07:00The Saddest Day: Paul Newman DiesLinkHe was a god among men.Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-92050488126651106982008-09-22T09:02:00.000-07:002008-09-22T09:03:36.461-07:00Controversy in GermanyI especially like the combination of medieval and caricature style.Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-30754366530344015662008-07-25T11:38:00.001-07:002008-07-25T11:56:21.543-07:00Drawing the LineI'm completely in favor of legislation like this. Cruelty to animals in order to create "art" is unacceptable; in fact, cruelty to animals and ART are antithetical to each other. Perhaps some serial killers see their acts as art. That doesn't make it so.This past year an artist named Guillermo Vargas placed and tied up a starving dog in his "exhibit."Here is a video with some pictures. Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-84609967307992817612008-06-03T10:18:00.000-07:002008-06-03T10:22:36.196-07:00NewsI was one of 88 out of 320 total artists whose work was selected for the 2009 Arkansas Artist Engagement Calendar sponsored by the Governor's Mansion Association. Here is the work selected:The Dogmatist, linocut, 2005(Click for larger image.)Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-42599492305176953012008-04-08T14:13:00.000-07:002008-04-08T14:14:21.576-07:00Fisk to Appeal Order on Art CollectionArticle.Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-85700054166722048832008-03-31T08:11:00.001-07:002008-03-31T08:58:34.591-07:00Followup to Who Says There's No Gender ProgrammingBlog EntryPrevious PostHere are some links about the history of gender identity and color:Princeton Report on KnowledgeColor MattersHow Stuff WorksAs an artist and someone interested in art history, I've often wondered what role these two paintings played in the development of the pink-for-girls, blue-for-boys phenomenon:Jonathan Buttall: The Blue Boy (c 1770) Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) oil on canvas,Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-2144955512809875642008-03-29T19:42:00.000-07:002008-03-29T20:06:22.199-07:00Who Says There's No Gender Programming?Recently, I had the pleasure of judging the PhotoLucida Critical Mass photography competition for the fourth year in a row. I was notified yesterday that there are six finalists and they are asking for proposals from each to choose two top award winners. The award is having their work published.Here are the remaining six. See what you think:Beth Dow Bill SullivanJeong Mee Yoon Joni Sternbach Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-86706998452049916632008-03-29T17:05:00.000-07:002008-03-29T19:41:21.010-07:00ART CLASSIC #6Inside-Out, Outside-In:The Self as Spectacle"myspace"Installation (1) on the University of Arkansas Union CourtyardMarch 14 - April 5, 2008by Kelsey FelthousenYesterday, I was driving to work and thinking about Americans' notions about privacy--how we put it all out there on myspace, Facebook, or even here on Blogger, etc. We're acclimated to talk shows where people spill their guts about extraordinarily personal things on television Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-59097640191016162472008-03-20T09:20:00.000-07:002008-03-20T09:42:11.417-07:00The Studio is Finally Finished!I began work on the studio last March. I first had to resurface the deck that is above the workshop that came with the house. I had to make sure it was waterproofed most of all. Of course, I had never resurfaced a deck before so that was a learning experience. Then, I began the process of remodeling the workshop into an art studio -- again, never doing any of this before. So between working Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-32773100060004053792008-03-14T08:52:00.000-07:002008-03-14T08:54:25.469-07:00Get Smart Out June 20I, for one, am looking forward to this one. How can it go wrong with Terence Stamp, Steve Carell, and Alan Arkin? Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-37022214137999854712008-03-12T09:19:00.000-07:002008-03-12T09:22:28.205-07:00Mythmaking with George W. Bushcon·fab·u·la·tion (def.) 1. the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.2. Psychiatry. the replacement of a gap in a person's memory by a falsification that he or she believes to be true.Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-55778631624037890412008-03-06T21:50:00.000-08:002008-03-06T19:50:24.290-08:00Solomon's Story: Solomon James Lewisb. Mar. 2, 1993 - d. Nov. 14, 2007[Click on the smaller images for bigger views.] This entry is not really an art related post. March 2 was what would have been my cat Solomon's birthday. He would have been 15 years old. I had to have him put to sleep during the early morning hours of this past November 14 at the emergency veterinary clinic. I've been wanting to write his story here since then, but have only become ready to do Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-1866417636594956692008-02-19T09:46:00.000-08:002008-02-19T10:01:57.737-08:00My First Cat ShowI've loved cats my whole life, but have never been to a cat show. This past weekend was my first trip to one. One of my students was showing Abyssinian Cats in a show in Joplin, Missouri and invited me to come. We went as a family with an ulterior motive in mind, however. My husband dreams of owning a Maine Coon for the sake of having something that gargantuan around the house. He wanted to Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-55813324275144878932008-02-16T06:12:00.000-08:002008-02-16T06:35:13.327-08:00Too Racy for LondonLucas Cranach the Elder, Venus, 1532,Oil and tempera on red beechwood,37.7 x 24.5 cm. Stadel Museum, Frankfurt amMain, Inv. Nr. 1125. Photo © : Jochen Beyer, Village-Neuf.LINK.LONDON.- Transport for London has refused to display a poster of the “Venus” painting by German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder stating it was overtly sexual. This painting is one of the 70 works that will be on view at the Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-57646938252995155492008-02-01T16:01:00.000-08:002008-02-01T16:02:49.229-08:00MoronsLinkLONDON—United Nations peacekeepers have vandalized prehistoric art in the Western Sahara, spray-painting graffiti over the artwork at Devil Mountain, known throughout the area as a place of cultural significance, the Times (London) reports. The U.N. officers who sprayed the graffiti also signed and dated their work. "I was appalled. You’d think some of them would know better..." said Julian JStephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18680765.post-14085864225428424842008-01-10T11:33:00.000-08:002008-01-10T12:03:14.788-08:00No, Really, It's True!Sorry I haven't written in awhile. The other day, we were attending some workshops at work, and we had an icebreaker in one of them. We were supposed to reveal two truths and one lie about ourselves. Then other people were supposed to guess which item was the lie. Most people were surprised to hear that I've seen The Monkees in concert TWICE. Here's the story.... I saw them first when I Stephanie Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919506242031387458noreply@blogger.com0