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Tag Archives: painting
How To Analyze A Painting – Revisited
In two recent posts, How To Become An Art Critic (In A Few Simple Steps) Part 1 and 2, we guided you step by step through the process of evaluating a work of art. The discussion was general in nature. Today … Continue reading
Blood Flowers: The Art of Imran Qureshi
Last week the Trump Administration bombed Syria without congressional approval. From the comfort of our living room we watch atrocities on T.V. but in the United States we are rarely touched directly. It was in this context that I came … Continue reading
Response and Resistance: Artists Push Back
In our last blog post, A Sea of Signs: Resistance, we discussed the recent wave of marches here and all around the world protesting Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States. The hand held signs at these marches … Continue reading
An In-Between Space: The Art of Njideka Akunyili Crosby
I recently came across the work of the Nigerian-American artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Her work is a clear embodiment of the principles and elements of design, and thus a great choice for this first new blog post of 2017. Akunyili … Continue reading
The Art of the Map
Happy Holidays to all of you. We will be taking our own holiday but will be back with new content on January 5. This week and next we’ll connect you to some older posts that we think you’ll enjoy. This … Continue reading
The Hidden Art of Hilma Af Klint
In the art world one of the most significant developments during the early decades of the twentieth century was the liberation of formal elements. Shape, color, texture, pattern and all the other elements of form and design had been used … Continue reading
Painters and Optical Devices (Part 2 Degas)
This is the second of three posts looking at how some representational painters have used optical devices and photography in their quest to capture images of the world around them. In the first post we described aspects of Johannes Vermeer’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Edgar Degas, optical devices, painting, Photography
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Painters and Optical Devices (Part 1 Vermeer)
While writing a recent post describing how painters have depicted three-dimensional space I started thinking about a related topic that is also interesting. I’m referring to the influence of optical devices – mostly cameras and photography – on the way … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, camera obscura, optical devices, Painters, painting, Vermeer
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The Design Element Of Space
In today’s blog post we talk about space and how artists have depicted it over the years. You can find our complete discussion of space in Chapter 4 of Design: A Beginner’s Handbook. For this post we will anchor the … Continue reading
Ramiro Gomez: I Choose To Recognize That The Custodian Was Here
When my blogging partner was writing our recent post about Eduardo Sarabia it reminded me of another contemporary Mexican-American artist. A young painter/sculptor working in Los Angeles named Ramiro Gomez. I first became aware of Gomez when I read about … Continue reading →
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