http://www.worldart.com.au/ A blog for artists and lovers of the arts from around the world, featuring discussions, appreciation and commentary on visual art, performance art and art-film. en Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:01:00 GMT Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:01:00 GMT info@worldart.com.au info@worldart.com.au http://www.worldart.com.au/userimages/user999_1173413035.gif http://www.worldart.com.au/ http://www.worldart.com.au/sarah-palin-and-john-mccain-the-morning-after/ It's definitely a disrespectful idea, but this painting of the McCain-Palin Straight Talk Express on the morning after the election is a hilarious bit of scathing satire. It's a painting... http://www.worldart.com.au/sarah-palin-and-john-mccain-the-morning-after/#comments http://www.worldart.com.au/sarah-palin-and-john-mccain-the-morning-after/ Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:01:00 GMT http://www.worldart.com.au/horror-art-for-halloween/ Demons of Gothic Horror for a Hallowed Eve. The pagan party is upon us again. Celebrating ghouls, ghosts, goblins, witches, warlocks and embracing the evil spirits that for the other... http://www.worldart.com.au/horror-art-for-halloween/#comments http://www.worldart.com.au/horror-art-for-halloween/ Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:22:00 GMT http://www.worldart.com.au/horse-paintings-by-cholla/ It's hard to believe, but we've finally evolved to the point where we've outsourced our paintings to the animal kingdom. I mean, we've all seen these watercolours by elephants, that's... http://www.worldart.com.au/horse-paintings-by-cholla/#comments http://www.worldart.com.au/horse-paintings-by-cholla/ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:28:00 GMT http://www.worldart.com.au/recycling-astro-boy-is-the-ticket/ Astro Boy goes Underground. For those of us of a certain generation Astro-Boy was a visual revolution. Long before Anime/Manga became a bedrock of modern western pop culture, the story... http://www.worldart.com.au/recycling-astro-boy-is-the-ticket/#comments http://www.worldart.com.au/recycling-astro-boy-is-the-ticket/ Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:05:00 GMT http://www.worldart.com.au/the-slave-coasts-voudun-art/ On BoingBoing TV, an episode on Voudun, the traditional spiritual beliefs of African tribes on the Slave Coast, which would turn into the black arts that are labelled voodoo in... http://www.worldart.com.au/the-slave-coasts-voudun-art/#comments http://www.worldart.com.au/the-slave-coasts-voudun-art/ Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:27:00 GMT http://www.worldart.com.au/turn-drawings-into-2d-creations/ I love the idea of this process, from a New Zealand-based company called Ponoko: you draw on a white piece of paper with a black felt pen. Make the lines... http://www.worldart.com.au/turn-drawings-into-2d-creations/#comments http://www.worldart.com.au/turn-drawings-into-2d-creations/ Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:26:00 GMT http://www.worldart.com.au/coffee-art/ Beyond the Brew Embedding itself in the bedrock of cultural ceremonies as well as social settings since the 9th century, the meagre coffee bean has integrated into most global societies... http://www.worldart.com.au/coffee-art/#comments http://www.worldart.com.au/coffee-art/ Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:01:00 GMT http://www.worldart.com.au/horrific-modifications-of-my-little-ponies/ Man, I always hated My Little Ponies. They creeped me out as a kid, these plastic ponies, big-eyed, balefully glaring at me. Waiting for my to turn my back so... http://www.worldart.com.au/horrific-modifications-of-my-little-ponies/#comments http://www.worldart.com.au/horrific-modifications-of-my-little-ponies/ Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:05:00 GMT http://www.worldart.com.au/swan-lake/ The Ballet of Grace Premiering in Moscow on February 7 1877, the ballet of Swan Lake has become easily recognised and possibly the most seen ballet ever choreographed. The effecting... http://www.worldart.com.au/swan-lake/#comments http://www.worldart.com.au/swan-lake/ Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:05:00 GMT http://www.worldart.com.au/the-rape-of-europa/ The Third Reich's war on Artistic Masterpieces WWII was a brutal conflict that saw mass extermination of human lives, diabolical goals and greedy plundering. Exposing the ugliest side to our... http://www.worldart.com.au/the-rape-of-europa/#comments http://www.worldart.com.au/the-rape-of-europa/ Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:15:00 GMT http://www.worldart.com.au/star-wars-renaissance-paintings/ The Force was with us a Long, Long Time ago The 14th century renaissance period in Europe, so named because of its "rebirth" of artistic and intellectual expression was arguably... http://www.worldart.com.au/star-wars-renaissance-paintings/#comments http://www.worldart.com.au/star-wars-renaissance-paintings/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:31:00 GMT http://www.worldart.com.au/the-pop-art-of-david-perillo/ The Pop Art Style continues Trawling the many caverns and crevices around the net I stumbled across a site called montygog.blogspot.com. The site features the work of a 34 year... http://www.worldart.com.au/the-pop-art-of-david-perillo/#comments http://www.worldart.com.au/the-pop-art-of-david-perillo/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:54:00 GMT http://www.worldart.com.au/1950s-space-art/ I found this terrific link on BoingBoing, a gallery of sci-fi art from the 1950s. It's called Plan59, and you can order any of their images as prints. The 50s... http://www.worldart.com.au/1950s-space-art/#comments http://www.worldart.com.au/1950s-space-art/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:57:00 GMT http://www.worldart.com.au/boogie-woogie-art-satire-film/ Boogie Woogie Lands a cast of Excellence Doing for the contemporary art world what The Devil Wears Prada did for fashion the novel Boogie Woogie was released in 2000 to... http://www.worldart.com.au/boogie-woogie-art-satire-film/#comments http://www.worldart.com.au/boogie-woogie-art-satire-film/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:43:00 GMT http://www.worldart.com.au/blair-prentice/ A good friend of mine, Blair Prentice, is an up-and-coming artist back in Canada, etching out a living in Toronto. His work has always been colourful and full of pop... http://www.worldart.com.au/blair-prentice/#comments http://www.worldart.com.au/blair-prentice/ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:55:00 GMT