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8 coffee cups turned into art (with heart)
On December 14, The Mascot coffee shop was taken over by an impressive roster of artists, joined together to raise funds for Ground for Health's cervical cancer screening and awareness programs in Peru, Nicaragua, and Tanzania. The charity strives to bring effective prevention programs to coffee-growing communities around the world.
Work from artists such as Janette Ewen, Marlene Silveira and Joshua James was up for auction, and guests also enjoyed food, libations and, of course, coffee.
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Photos by Brian Chambers
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I like a lot of modern art but odds are if a scribbling three year old could match your concept, you need to work harder.
Interesting to take an everyday ordinary object and turn it into art. Not my cup of tea though. Couldn't resist.
There were a few plain white ceiling tiles that people painted art on them. Some had beautiful art work others clearly done by children.
Not sure how it worked but in time they will be auctioned off to cover costs for various health research projects.
My friend recovered but the ceiling tiles kept her focused while the doctors and nurses attended to her.
As for the coffee cups, they are blank canvases for the artists to express themselves for a good cause. They give you time to look at them and reflect why they were made in the first place. Who would have thought making those dream catcher lids in the first place?
The modern era ended sometime in the 60s.
Modernism refers to a kind of art that is not really made anymore except as a form to be appropriated. Listening to people who don't actually know much about art is tiresome, certainly when they come from the "my kid could paint that school". NO your kid could not paint "that" and neither could you.(try it some time, get a canvas, get some paint and try and reproduce one of those "simple" pieces like ... a Mark Rothko) Its so sad that Canadians take so much pride in their ignorance. This certainly isn't an example of good art, but its where all creative explorations start. They are examples of people thinking creatively about an object, and making interventions that make you think differently about that object. This is not only the basis of art but even so-called "useful" creative pursuits like graphic design or architecture.
Also "hipster"-- a boring word for other people you do not like.
Please, define the word Kitsch for me--because I don't think that word means what you think it means.
While the velvet painting may approach kitsch.
The cup would not even register.
Its a creative exercise for a charity, for fun.
Its not a gallery show.
The reality is... Artists in Canada DO have jobs, and probably work upwards of 60 hours a week dividing their time between a money job, and their REAL job -- making art work. IF you keep talking like that... Your kid will probably turn out being an artist. Or WORSE... an actor.