Cosplay... Is An Art: San Diego Comic Con 2015 Cosplay and Convention Overview

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Ricardo Celma

Art Appreciation

Perhaps it's the Klimt influence that caught my attention of Ricardo Celma's paintings. One in particular is his interpretation of Danae, a well known Klimt painting of a Greek mythology story of divine love.

Ricardo Celma is an Argentinian artist known for his hyperrealistic paintings. You can see more of his wonderful paintings HERE.

Danae via sociedadedospoetasamigos 

Solo Pienso En Ti via iamachild 

La Despedida de Eros via artodyssey1 

Sources:

http://ricardocelma.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ricardo.celma.3
https://www.facebook.com/ricardocelma.arte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNNbZrGgH5o
https://vimeo.com/74215412
http://artodyssey1.blogspot.com/2009/07/ricardo-celma-ricardo-celma-was-born-in.html
http://beautyloveandsoul.blogspot.com/2012/02/ricardo-celma.html
http://sociedadedospoetasamigos.blogspot.com/2013/06/ricardo-celma-artista-plastico-argentino.html
http://muchascosasenuno.blogspot.com/2013/03/ricardo-celma.html
https://iamachild.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/ricardo-celma-1975-argentine/

David Seymour

Photography Appreciation

David Seymour, also known as Chim, was a Polish photographer and photojournalist. He was the co-founder of Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, George Rodger and William Vandivert and is best known as the first international photographer commissioned by the UNICEF to travel and document WWII refugee children.

You can see more of his wonderful photos HERE.

A Disturbed Child in a Warsaw Orphanage (1948) 
via wikimedia

Pablo Picasso In Front of Guernica in Paris (1937) 
via nga

Sophia Loren posing in her home, Naples, Italy (1953) 

via icp

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Seymour_(photographer)
http://www.unicef.org/emergencies/index_69785.html
http://www.magnumphotos.com/Catalogue/David-Seymour.html

Cosplay... Is An Art: Dallas Comic Con 2014

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Politics: Video that may explain who is ISIS

It's rare that I post something that relates to politics. I mean, come on, this blog is about art and photography, right?

In the past few days, however, we have been exposed to stories and images of the terrorist attacks in Paris. The Islamic State (formerly ISIS or ISIL), the Jihadist militant group in Syria, claimed responsibility for the attack. But how did this all begin and who is the real threat? This video may provide answers to these questions:



via VOX


VOX further explains why the Islamic State would attack Paris HERE.

Cosplay... Is An Art: Heart of Texas Comic Con 2014

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"Where do we draw the line between art and pornography?"

Definitions

Art: "Something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings" Merriam-Webster

Pornography: "Movies, pictures, magazines, etc., that show or describe naked people or sex in a very open and direct way in order to cause sexual excitement" Merriam-Webster

This is a topic I have followed for years. If art is created to show beauty and express a feeling, then wouldn't pornography be considered art? Or as Stephen Colbert asked in the video below, "What is art? Where do we draw the line between art and pornography? And what if that line looks like a butt crack [Shows close-up of Picasso's Les Femmes d'Alger, Version O]?"




Source: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert