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Artist Studio Visits

Video tours of various artists' studios. Side effects may include apartment envy and pangs of regret at not going to art school Ida Applebroog's space:

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Emptying the contents of my RSS reblog recycle can.

Phew.

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Louis Armstrong: Collage Fan

When not being a musical genius, Louis Armstrong liked to spend his time also creating collages. Neat!

The works are untitled and undated, but he was making them as early as the 1950s; in a letter from 1953 he wrote, “Well, you know, my hobbie (one of them anyway) is using a lot of scotch tape . . . My hobbie is to pick out the different things during what I read and piece them together and [make] a little story of my own.”

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Art and the Landscape in Finland

Here are a few that I like from this collection of environmental artwork by various artists who connect "two aspects of Finland, the natural landscape (forests, grasslands, snow and ice, etc) and the presence of myth and legend." Jonna Pohjalainen, Color Pencils

Martti Kukkonen, Countryside can be imported 2: Red cottage and potato field

Jaakko Pernu, Parasol

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