January the 17th is Art’s Birthday according to Robert Filliou, a French Fluxus artist, who proposed “Art’s Birthday” in 1963. He suggested that a million years ago there was no art. But one day, on January 17 Art was born when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Now, lots of artists and arts organisations across the world celebrate Art’s birthday. Today Husb and I went to a symposium on Utopia in the Mission Gallery in Swansea called ‘Collective Misunderstandings’, by Copenhagen-based collective ATB. A challenging and interesting day. I did an extended scribble with Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens into my A6 Tate Gallery sketchbook.
Art’s Birthday
Posted byRosie ScribblahPosted inArty Stuff, out and about, People watchingTags:art, Art's Birthday, drawing, Fluxus, Mission Gallery, Robert Filliou, sketchbooks, Swansea
Published by Rosie Scribblah
I'm an artist / printmaker / scribbler. I love drawing and all the geeky stuff associated with printmaking, working in a figurative style. I live in Wales with husband and demented cats. And my real name is Rose Davies :D View more posts

here is the artist I love! Donna
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Wonderful drawing–so much detail and it really shows off your particular style.
Thank you. I was able to spend quite a while on it, maybe about 40 minutes
Love the story too x
Thank you 😀
Great, expressive drawing! I love the way the figures are distributed within and fill the entire space.
Thank you. Mostly I just draw what’s in front of me 😊