Tag: Visual Arts
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Critical Distinctions
“The Distinctions of fine art bore me to death.” Maurice Sendak (from Brainyquote) The debate has raged on and on over Fine Art versus Illustration. Is illustration fine art? Is fine art, illustration? Many a late night conversation among art students has debated this question. The snobbery on each side is rather humorous. Each believes…
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Weekend Inspiration–Seeking Kindred Spirits
“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight.” James McNeil Whistler (from skinnyartist.com) Art inspires literature. Literature inspires art. Music inspires both art and literature, and vice versa. There is an emotional connection that is felt, one for the other on a deep level. It has been going on…
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Listen Up: Heart versus Brain
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” Leonardo da Vinci What is political art and what isn’t? The Tate’s new exhibition, “Art Turning Left” exhibits the art of left-leaning political artists like the Guerrilla Girls. Undoubtedly, the Guerrrilla Girls made a splash with their bold political statements turning up…
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Brush Speak
Red Calla Lilly-Georgia O’Keeffe “I found that I could say things with color and shape that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for” Georgia O’Keeffe (from Brainyquote) Art is an inner language that must be expressed outwardly. For the visual artist, there is an urge to put sights or thoughts into…
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Artfully Senseless
“Art is the Queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.” Leonardo da Vinci (from The Art of Artificial Evolution) Does participation in the arts increase knowledge? Since the publication of “The Mozart Effect” study, scientists have been asking this question. Artists already know…
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Weekend Inspiration–Block Medicine
“Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up.” Chuck Close (About.com/painting) Artist’s block is a subject worth repeating because we all go through it. Each time it rears its ugly head is a cue to seek some kind, any kind of solution that will break the back of the evil block. There could…
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Edible Adjustments
“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that is very good but that most can’t eat it.” Leo Tolstoy (from Brainyquote) Does making a living diminish the subject of political statements in artist’s works? Many artists…
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Channeling
“The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.” Piet Mondrian (from Artpromotivate) What makes an artist create? For some it is the process of art- making. Others are obsessed with some particular subject, model or location. some just want to make a living. But does that really explain what makes a…
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Experimenting Experimenters
“Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.” Edward O. Wilson (from The Painters Keys) Many artists are experimenters who constantly search for new ways to express themselves through their art. They look for new techniques. They try different media. Some even come…