Developing Your Vision. Developing your Vision by Alain Briot This essay is the third of a four parts series titled as follows: 1- Finding Inspiration 2 - Exercising your Creativity 3 - Developing your Vision 4 - Achieving your Personal Style.
Vermeer draws us into a secret world. 'Invisible passions and secret selves' ...
Detail of Vermeer's Woman Reading a Letter. Photograph: Carola Van Wijk/Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam How do you portray someone's interior life? It is one thing to depict outer beauty or ugliness, to capture appearances. David Katz, M.D.: Medicine, Museums and Spoons Full of Sugar. I don't think Mary Poppins had this in mind at all.
Kids these days -- and adults, for that matter -- are consuming far too many spoons full of sugar. This sugar excess contributes importantly to the epidemic of obesity, and all of its consequences -- diabetes in particular. Fear Helps You Appreciate Abstract Art, Study Finds. The next time you're having trouble appreciating Jackson Pollock, try seeing a horror movie first. According to a new study, feeling fear may actually help people to better engage with abstract art. In the study, which used 85 Brooklyn College students as a sample, participants were assigned randomly to one of five conditions: fear, happiness, high physiological arousal, low physiological arousal or a control group. Fear was induced with a video of a screaming, zombie-like face, happiness with a clip of a baby and dog interacting, and high and low physiological arousal by having participants complete 30 or 15 jumping jacks, respectively.
How To Write an Art History Paper - Art History 101: Writing an Art History Paper. You have been assigned an art history paper to write.
You would like to finish your assignment on time with a minimum of stress, and your instructor fervently hopes to read an engaging, well-written paper. Here are some dos and don'ts to guide you, written by an art history professor who has graded thousands of these papers ranging from the superlative to the good, the bad and the phenomenally ugly. Preparation: 1. Choose a Topic You Love. How to Critique and Write about Art. The following steps— description, analysis, interpretation and evaluation — are the steps in a formal critique. It is called the Feldman method.
It is an established critique method that has been used by students and professionals alike for over 50 years. Please respond to the following sections in paragraph form, using complete sentences. Use the questions provided as a guide to provide you with information for your paragraphs. Describe. Interview with Alex Kanevsky : Painting Perceptions. Alex Kanevsky Interview with Neil Plotkin Alex Kanevsky J.F.H. 48″ x 48″, oil on board, 2011 click here for a larger view Many readers are familiar with Alex Kanevsky’s work but perhaps not all of his details.
The internet offers a great deal of information about Mr. Asian art turns from plaything of Hong Kong's young rich into moneyspinner. The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History. PORT - Portland art + news + reviews. Erik Nitsche. Las Vegas: exploring the neon boneyard - video. How Chinese activist Ai Weiwei became an Internet master. Soren Petersen: Art That Inspires. For almost two decades, Kenton Nelson has charmed art lovers with optimistic and subtly provocative oil paintings from his native Pasadena.
Capturing and sharing details from ordinary Southern California life in a distinct "advertising age"-inspired style has propelled his life from one graphic artist among many to that of a world-renowned artist. Giant painting of Indian mosque to be sold in NY. Anthony Papa: Curate NYC Juried Exhibition and Online Showcase 2011. Curate NYC is back for round two.
A citywide juried exhibition and online showcase, the project offers free curatorial reviews, public exposure and exhibition opportunities to New York City visual artists. Curate NYC is developed by Full Spectrum Experience, Inc., a nonprofit arts organization led by painter/gallery owner Danny Simmons and musician/marketing strategist Brian Tate, and produced in partnership with the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC). Last year Curate NYC attracted 1,200 artists in three short weeks.
The top 150 entries were exhibited as museum-quality postcards at Rush Arts Gallery in Chelsea. This year Full Spectrum expands on that success with additional perks for artists and art lovers. "Curate NYC is a key component of our efforts to expand New York City's economy by supporting industries like the arts, and providing a venue for less established artists to showcase and sell their works," said NYCEDC President Seth W. Artists File Suit Against Sotheby’s, Christie’s and eBay. The uproar that followed in part inspired the California Resale Royalties Act, requiring anyone reselling a piece of fine art who lives in the state, or who sells the art there for $1,000 or more, to pay the artist 5 percent of the resale price.
That law is now at the center of three class-action suits brought this month by artists who include and Laddie John Dill and the estate of the sculptor Robert Graham. They have filed suit against the auction powerhouses and and the online auction site for failure to pay royalties. MutualArt Investigates The Top Selling Female Artists Of 2011.
Via MutualArt Lot results and fiscal reports from the leading auction houses in the first half of 2011 showed a promising continuation of art market recovery and renewed investor confidence.
Yet given the recent upheaval in global markets, speculation is mounting as to how this tumultuous August will affect the auction block. Recently, to gear up for the highly anticipated upcoming sale season, MutualArt reviewed the top highlights from the auction floor so far this year. Unfortunately, in gathering the auction data there was one factor that was unintentionally overlooked; one sector of artists that somehow evaded all our top 10 lists - Females!
This total lack of women's names was realized thanks to MutualArt users who commented on our auction round-up article, bringing this uncanny occurrence to our attention.