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Rantanen, Sligar win top honors in Central Illinois art contest

Senior Aliisa Rantanen and junior Lor Sligar have won first and second prize, respectively, in the annual art contest sponsored by the Central Illinois Chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters. Check inside to see their winning entries.

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Browsing artwork is very enjoyable. Especially when it's from unknown artists. But finding places to do this is kind of hard. Recently though, I was introduced to deviantART.

Away with thoughtless art: "Yo Mama's Last Supper"

Do you ever get tired of looking at art that doesn’t mean anything? The type of art that has no interpretation, because it is so straightforward — art that is meant only to be pretty, meant to grace the walls of restaurant bathrooms? Occasionally Rachel Harmon feels surrounded by works like this and needs art that has meaning to remind her of the wonderful power of art. That’s how she found Renée Cox’s “Yo Mama’s Last Supper.”

Dali delusions

So, along the lines of talking about art, I just wanted to share with you an artist whose art I think is extraordinarily out of the box.

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