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Artwork Emotion Installation Mental Health Vending Machine

This artwork is a vending machine that dispenses ‘snacks’ based on your mood

sudshr47 March 28, 2018

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Instead of crappy crisps, this vending machine dispenses something much better for your health — “snacks” based on your emotional needs.

An installation artwork in Sydney’s CBD by artists Elizabeth Commandeur and Mark Starmach, Intangible Goods is a special vending machine that’s filled with “conveniently packaged consumables for the mind.”

Yep, no classic chips or chocolate bars — you can find them in that other vending machine over there — instead you can pick some mind food. Each little packet is A$2 ($1.50) and has been designed by the artists alongside mental health professionals to contain products for specific emotional needs. Read more…

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Artwork Paintings Picasso Science

Researchers discover hidden details lurking beneath a Picasso masterpiece

sudshr47 February 18, 2018

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There are many layers to great art — sometimes literally. 

We are reminded of this fact by researchers at the Art Institute of Chicago’s Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts, who have revealed hidden details lurking beneath the Pablo Picasso masterpiece “La miséreuse accroupie.” 

While the presence of another artwork — specifically, a painting of the Catalan countryside by a different artist — below Picasso’s “Crouching Beggar” has been known about since the 1990s, Science reports that we now are able to see previously hidden elements of Picasso’s work.  Read more…

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Artwork Paintings Picasso Science

Researchers discover hidden details lurking beneath a Picasso masterpiece

sudshr47 February 18, 2018

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There are many layers to great art — sometimes literally. 

We are reminded of this fact by researchers at the Art Institute of Chicago’s Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts, who have revealed hidden details lurking beneath the Pablo Picasso masterpiece “La miséreuse accroupie.” 

While the presence of another artwork — specifically, a painting of the Catalan countryside by a different artist — below Picasso’s “Crouching Beggar” has been known about since the 1990s, Science reports that we now are able to see previously hidden elements of Picasso’s work.  Read more…

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