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Monthly Archives: September 2017
Fool The Eyes: Artists Who Use Their Skills To Challenge Our Perception (Part 2)
In an earlier post we started a discussion about artists who have used their illusion-making skills to manipulate the viewer’s perception in mysterious or super convincing ways – to fool the eye and trick the mind. You can read that … Continue reading
Art and Design
In December it will be three years since we published our book Design: A Beginner’s Handbook. In structuring that textbook we decided to use simple real-world examples of the design elements and principles. We opted to demonstrate the application of … Continue reading
Fool The Eyes: Artists Who Use Their Skills To Challenge Our Perception
Artists in Western countries have a long tradition of using design elements in careful ways to create illusions. By subtly manipulating these elements they have been able to transform a mundane flat surface into what appears to be a window … Continue reading
Posted in Artists and Designers, Elements and Principles
Tagged anamorphic perspective, Andrea Pozzo, art education resource, Art Textbook, design element space, design element texture, design textbook, elements and principles of design, Hans Holbein, oil painting, sidewalk chalk artists, trompe l'oeil
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Artists Who Bring Design Elements/Principles Front and Center
In this weeks’ blog post let’s take a look at some artists whose use of design elements and principles have recently captured my attention The first images are by a photographer from Glasgow named John Gribben. Gribben has done commercial … Continue reading