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i paint water. bubbles , turbulence. i am interested in the way light refracts and reflects through water. i paint oil on linen, (see "skye william eade"-satchi online) i have exhibited in three major cities in england, east, west, and central london. i have sold over twenty paintings, several drawings and many cards. i feel stuck, i have recently become a single parent, so money is tight. i know people like my work. i dugg myself into debt for many years to enable me to produce the work i now have in my collection. i really suffered for art. but now i have quite a large collection to show for years of dilligence. i have put one painting on e-bay, but feel this is not the way to go about sel Read more..

Les Demoiselles d\'Avignon, A Transitional Masterpiece

Les Demoiselles d\'Avignon, which translates to The Young Ladies of Avignon was painted by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in his Paris studio, Bateau-Lavoir, and was completed in the year 1907. The painting depicts five prostitutes in a brothel in Avignon Street, Barcelona, looking out of the canvas towards the viewer. Although, as usual with Picasso, the name wasn\'t given until well after its completion. It is one of Picasso\'s most celebrated paintings and currently belongs to The Museum of Modern Art, New York City. It churns together Picasso\'s former subject matter of the classical nude with an Iberian influence that was emerging at the time, and is commonly said to be the key painting i Read more..

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(Guard: On the Fixation of Terminologies. A Short Essay) It hasn’t been very long since the last of the cultural inclinations of power; The capitalist gain in the mass media and the servitude of the Avant; to which may be a kind of literality in Guard. It is Purely something that may have been detested in even the ratio of informatives, literature, or more over in the fast paced expansion of power, technology or the mass maintenance of such depletion. In such, this becomes construed to the formula of Conversions and the laxed inquiry of Scientific Understandings. In putting aside the term Avant Garde; for the same Reasons that Cause and Reaction have passed with Read more..

How has the representation of intoxication in art and literature changed and evolved since the 1890’s and throughout the 20th century to the present

How has the representation of intoxication in art and literature changed and evolved since the 1890’s and throughout the 20th century to the present? By Jack Thomas James Davies Fine Art: Contemporary Media Word Count (with quotes): 9823 Tutor: Alise Piebalga Contents Introduction Pg 04 Chapter One Pg 07 The end of the 19th century; the beginnings of intoxication representation. Chapter Two Pg 16 The end of World War 2; the rise of the Beatniks. Chapter Three Pg 25 Representations of intoxication in contemporary art and culture. Conclusion Pg 38 Reference Bibliography Pg 42 Main Bibliography Read more..

EXPOSIÇÃO "SKETCHBOOKS!"

De 3 a 26 de abril de 2008 "Sketchbooks", ou cadernos de esboços, são ferramentas fundamentais no processo de geração de idéias. Portáteis e informais, eles são pequenos espaços para experimentações gráficas e exercício do livre pensamento. Historicamente são companheiros inseparáveis de artistas, escritores e de criativos em geral. A Livraria Pop, há 2 anos alimentando mentes criativas, invadiu a privacidade de alguns artistas e apresenta esta seleção de sketchbooks inspiradores. Artistas participantes: Alex Hornest Carla Caffé Daniel Caballero Davis Lisboa Eduardo Verderame Fefê Talavera Fernanda Guedes Juliana Russo Kako Kiko Farkas Luciana Ar Read more..

The Sin Of Love

For centuries. Most artist depict a serpent that was possessed by the spirit of the "evil one"in the garden of Eden. Most theologians till this day believe this to be true. The following (based on one of my art works) is a sliver of one of my dissertation from The Issues of Theology In REM titled: THE SIN OF LOVE In his Book of the Old Testament, the prophet Ezekiel describes the fallen angel Lucifer a.k.a. Satan, as the perfection of wisdom and beauty who was adorned with precious stones and possessed great musical ability. Isaiah 14:12 (Lucifer) - 739 B.C. *Ezekiel 28:12-14 (Wisdom & Beauty) - 593 B.C. Lucifer which means in Latin "the light bearer, shining one" was the name of a r Read more..

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philosphy of mel-art

Philosophy of M.E.L. art business M.E.L. art business understands the art market as a temporal achievement of the multilevel social evaluation of art, the art process, the art related contexts, the individual opinion, the personal and collective delights and frustrations, the (un-) fulfilling hopes and suggestive temptations. The art market, as a scorned as well as a desirable part of the world of art, as an imaginative aspect of the economical assessment, and with it the social objectification and alienation, is the impure part of the impure world for the ‘pure’ art. Here the artists’ fate of the market anarchy or the personal collectors’ passion – thus the bogeyman of mone Read more..

Laurel Sparks "Cherry Bomb"

Katelyn Orlando Introduction to Fine Arts Essay 1000 Professor McGurk Final Essay “Cherry Bomb” by Laurel Sparks The piece of art that I chose to discuss is “Cherry Bomb” by Laurel Sparks found in the Foster Gallery. The artist uses many different materials to construct her exceptional abstract paintings. In “Cherry Bomb” the artist uses acrylic, marble dust, papier mache, enamel, pom poms, water color marker, pigment, and unpainted canvas. She uses brightly colored paints such as, hot pink, gold, green, red, black, orange and browns. The piece is made of a lot of different shapes and lines. Laurel Sparks states that her artwork is unlike any other. “Painting can be Read more..

Laurel Sparks-" Cherry Bomb"

Kayla Smith Intro to Fine Arts FA1000 3/19/08 Laurel Sparks- Cherry Bomb Laurel Sparks was born in Phoenix, Arizona in the year of 1972 (Sparks C.V). She began her journey into art by attending Tufts University to receive her bachelors in fine arts and also attending School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Sparks C.V.). She continued to further her education in art through 2004. Since then Laurel Sparks has exhibited her at in a variety of group and solo shows (Sparks C.V.). Along the way Sparks has received many awards and scholarships relating to her education and art alone (Sparks C.V). Sparks is very fond of contemporary and abstract art by which most of her art comes from, Cherry Read more..

Tuk-Tuks Topiary by Will Pappenheimer

In the painting Tuk-Tuks Topiary by Will Pappenheimer the artist applies more than 8,000 hand-dyed pompons to a canvas. It is a representational piece that illustrates the image of two reindeers. The background of the piece surrounding the reindeers is more abstract; but the viewer can still decipher images of shrubs, grass, and trees. The artist appears to make the background abstract so the images of the reindeer stand out to the viewer. Texture and color are two visual elements that stand out in the work. They are complimented adequately by two principles of design contrast and emphasis. The artwork is extraordinarily eye catching at first glance. The hand-dyed pompons look like cotton ba Read more..

Breaching

Breaching, a mixed media piece by American artist Elizabeth H. Wallace, captures both visual and underlying beauty . The piece, finished in 2007, is beautiful on the surface and has a deep meaning behind it. Elizabeth H. Wallace uses several principles of design and visual elements throughout the piece. Elizabeth H. Wallace was born in 1951 in Washington, DC. She studied urban planning at the University of Washington, where she obtained her Masters degree in 1979. Later, she attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and graduated in 2005. Elizabeth H. Wallace has an extremely unique style and her work stands out in comparison to many other styles. Breaching is Read more..

Dark Side of the Rainbow

In Laurel Sparks, Dark Side of The Rainbow, she uses different colors to express different emphasis. She uses a darker background on the sides of the painting and a whiter color in the middle and some of the bottom. She uses tan on the other part of the bottom of the piece. She uses little things that catch peoples eye. In her painting she has glitter on certain spots of the painting, which caught my eye and made me more interested in the painting. She uses a variety of colors that contrast each other. She makes contrast and emphasizes different aspects of the painting. The material that she used to create this is acrylic paint, marble dust, papier mache, enamel, beads, Read more..

The Flaming Creature

When we visited the Museum of Fine Arts and looked at contemporary art, I saw a lot of new and interesting works of art. The painting that I found to be the most interesting was Laurel Sparks, Flaming Creature. Sparks received her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She has taught at several local colleges in the Boston area (www.LaurelSparks.com). She is a contemporary artist who uses a lot of color and mixer media in her work. In her painting Flaming Creature, she uses media such as acrylic, marble dust, papier mache, enamel, small objects, and water color marker. All these items put together make quite an interesting piece. She uses many colors Read more..

Versailles Mickey

When walking into the Museum of Fine Arts, I went directly into the Foster Gallery filled with new contemporary art and upcoming artists. One particular piece that caught my eye was Versailles Mickey by Will Pappenheimer. Versailles Mickey is a unique piece in that it is not a painting, nor sculpture, nor photograph. It is a canvas piece composed of more than eight thousand hand-dyed pom poms. There are many visual elements and principles of design that are portrayed in Pappenheimer’s piece. Will Pappenheimer canvases are inspired by You Tube videos that are global images. “Globlots represents global blots: Rorschach inkblot tests conducted with global imagery” (The Exposure Project) Read more..

Leslie Hall 'The Great Battle for Des Moines and My Love

Colette LaRue March 24, 2008 The Great Battle for Des Moines and My Love The painting The Great Battle for Des Moines and My Love painted by Leslie Hall is a contemporary piece now on display. It is a large painting which illustrates a city’s skyline with tall skyscrapers. Over the buildings there is a large gorilla and tiger. They look as if they are floating in the sky. They both have their jaws open wide and their paws facing outwards almost as if they are going to jump out onto the tops of the buildings or the car. In the forefront of the painting there is a young woman in a bikini sprawled out over the hood of a red convertible. The young woman looks un-fazed by the animals Read more..

Tuk-Tuks Topiary

Tuk-Tuks Topiary Will Pappenheimer’s piece Tuk-Tucs Topiary (2006) uses pom-poms to form a relief canvas replicated from a YouTube video from online. His unique usage of contrasting hues, repetition of material, color of the material, and the texture of the work create Globlots, a new style of Pappenheimer’s work. Will Pappenheimer is a professor of Digital Media at Pace University and has degrees from the Museum School and Tufts, Boston and Harvard. He has exhibited his work internationally in video, mixed media, installation and new media in over 50 shows. Born in Massachusetts in 1954, he has lived in the northeast for most of his life, but lived and worked in Florida for a few ye Read more..

Stasis MFA Paper

Audrey Suskind Fine Arts MFA Paper Professor McGurk STASIS: EQUILIBRIUM From the moment one enters the Foster Gallery in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for the Traveling Scholars exhibit, Elizabeth H. Wallace’s piece, Stasis, draws the viewer closer. Stasis is gigantic! The piece is approximately a six foot by three and a half foot rectangle placed in a horizontal position. More unusual, perhaps, is that it is drawn and painted with watercolor, graphite, acrylic, oil pencil and ink on a seamless piece of probably hand-made vellum. Wallace describes her mixed media piece as “mending,” (Wallace) a mending that “begins when drink and food are shared, deep in the vu Read more..

"Tuk-Tuks Topiary" by Will Pappenheimer

Samantha Rodenhiser March 24, 2008 Tuk-Tuks Topiary As I stepped off the enormous bus, I was pleasantly surprised to be in front of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Though the visit was only for a field trip, I am very happy that I was able to experience the world of art in so many different ways. My concentration during the trip was the Foster Gallery featuring Contemporary art, which displayed much different forms of art than some of the other exhibits. Tuk-Tuks Topiary by Will Pappenheimer was the piece that caught my eye. Not only did it have a visual attractiveness, but like all art it also had visual elements and principles of design incorporated into the piece. Will Pappenheim Read more..

Tension

Ryan Snee Professor McGurk MFA Art work paper March 19th 2008 “Tension” The painting in Museum of fine arts that immediately caught my attention is “Tension” by Elizabeth H. Wallace. This piece of art caught my eye because of the shape of the image and contrast between the colors used to create the image. The image is in the shape of a “ying yang” except the two sides are not solid black or white. The two sides are filled with organic and geometric lines and shapes. The center of the image is not white like in a normal “ying yang”; instead it is colorful, containing organic shapes that are a solid green color. This image contains a lot of positive space but what Read more..

Tuk-Tuks Topiary

Lawrence Vance 03/18/08 Intro to Fine Arts An Examination of Tuk-Tuks Topiary by Will Pappenheimer In the world of art, there are an infinite number of media that can be used to express a message or create art. A few of the most common media are paint, pencil, and sculpture. Some of the most interesting and unique art in the world, however, are conceived using exceptional media to achieve an original feel. One example of an original medium used to create art, is the Tuk-Tuks Topiary by Will Pappenheimer. The most amazing aspect of this piece of contemporary art is the way that the viewer’s proximity, affects how the piece is seen. When viewed up close, it appears to be a seri Read more..

RSVPmfa Boston by Jim Lambie

The first artwork that caught my eyes left me feeling intrigued by the design of the. The RSVP installation covered the whole wall leading to the initial exhibit. The wall was filled with black and white curved lines intertwining each other; as if they were threaded to make one large piece of material. Randomly placed pieces of chairs painted many different bright colors dangled old handbags. Some of the chairs are whole, but placed on the wall upside-down, or sideways while others were pieces of chairs painted one color paired with different colored pieces of chairs. This representational artwork is different from most representational work. You can clearly see that there are chairs and h Read more..

RSVPmfa Boston by Jim Lambie

The first artwork that caught my eyes left me feeling intrigued by the design of the. The RSVP installation covered the whole wall leading to the initial exhibit. The wall was filled with black and white curved lines intertwining each other; as if they were threaded to make one large piece of material. Randomly placed pieces of chairs painted many different bright colors dangled old handbags. Some of the chairs are whole, but placed on the wall upside-down, or sideways while others were pieces of chairs painted one color paired with different colored pieces of chairs. This representational artwork is different from most representational work. You can clearly see that there are chairs and h Read more..

The Great battle for Des Moines and my Love

Joshua Jansen March 18, 2008 The Great battle for Des Moines and my Love After walking around the Museum of Fine Arts, I was not sure what to think. I was staring at pictures and sculptures made well before my time, in the presence of actual history. I thought I would be excited, overwhelmed with a feeling of “wow”, however most of the actual art brought me no such feeling. As I was walking through the museum something caught my eye, a painting called The Great Battle for Desmoines and My Love by an artist named Leslie Hall. The museum seemed to be filled with r, but this painting stood out, it had attitude. I had never seen any amusing art until I came across this painting by Hal Read more..

Tuk-Tuks Topiary

Artist William Pappenheimer is a local Bostonian, born in 1954. He attended both Tufts University and Harvard University (MFA brochure). In 2006 he constructed “Tuk- Tuks Topiary”. “This piece of art work contains over 8,000 hand-dyed pompons applied to a canvas. His inspiration was a YouTube.com still from a travel video” (MFA brochure). He made use of existing media from the internet, and interpreted it into his own creation. Pappemheimer used global blots, or “Globlots” as the central theme in recent projects, as “an alternative gesture of receding internal and external situations from one confined area to the world. Globlots are inkblot tests conducted with glob Read more..

Elizabeth Wallace- \

Throughout the age of time the human being has created numerous ways of expressing the self, which serves as the mode of communication with one another. Communicating does not entirely mean the exchange of words to inform a message, but rather a process which terminally gets one to see another\'s viewpoint. Communicating is represented in variable ways; one being the visual concept of fine arts. Fine artists use both visual elements and principles of design to communicate a message to their viewer. Amongst the many contemporary artist is Elizabeth H. Wallace, who utilizes the implementations of visual elements and principles of design to construct her 2006 piece, named \"Tension\". This p Read more..

Compression

“Drawing can be a way to visualize hopefulness”(Wallace 14). When I first saw Compression, 2005 by Elizabeth H. Wallace it made me curious. The shape, lines and colors attracted me to the art work. The painting was made from acrylic, oil pencil, graphite, and ink on vellum. Compression was one of seven paintings in her collection. Her collection was based on the idea that everyone in this world is equal even though not everyone sees it that way. She states, “These drawings are maps of possibilities”(Wallace 14). The painting itself was large and in the center contained a curved line filled with swirls and multiple colors. Around the curved line was all open space, nothing but white. Read more..

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Arts market harmful to the role of contemporary art as the most effective communication tool.

I am denouncing the role of arts market as simply promoting subculture and an unhealthy environment, instead of assisting contemporary art. Since the most important role of contemporary art should be to assist the artists to communicate as effectively as possibly with the rest of the world – since visual arts is the most effective communication tool – the arts market stops this procedure as soon as art is bought and it is withdrawn from the public view, which downgrades it to a simple commodity – like iron- and is only used to increase another sales’ index. Would be, for example, of any use theatre plays, music concerts or movies Read more..

hand print color photos

My name is Paolo Romani, I am a researcher/ artisan/photographer/artist. I do very particular and innovative work in the field of color printing from the negative on paper with manual equipment and personal research techniques. Each print is unique. A contemporary vintage in color. I think that could be the prosecution of the “Pictorialism “of B&W at the turn of century, as such as Demachy, Puyo, Stieglitz, ect. Infact in 1981 the Kodak wrote to me: “We have now had an opportunity to review your photographs with the appropriate Kodak organizations’. Everyone agrees that these prints are of a most interesting nature. Read more..

Pornsaints - a brief essay about pornography and transcendence

A brief essay about Pornography and Transcendence I. What is a Saint from wikipedia.org: Saint is a term used to refer to someone who is a holy person. The term comes from the New Testament, where it is used to refer to all Christian believers. Over the years the term has grown to be used and accepted in other Christian, religious, and even secular contexts, to refer to those who are considered to be exceptionally virtuous or glorified in heaven. Hence a "saint" (cont. with sinner) is a (usually deceased) person whose life is regarded by a community as a good example, and their life story is remembered for sake of inspiring others. *** Defining a Saint is a feat which is so di Read more..

You have to be thick skinned

Sometime in the late Seventies I had an appointment with the Museum of Modern Art to show their curator some of my work. She wasn't very impressed, which made me kind of depressed, so I sat down on the steps of St. Thomas' Church on Fifth Avenue to watch the people. I see Lt. Sulu from "Star Trek" walk by. "So, this is my day to see celebrities" I get on the bus heading downtown. At about 20th St. I see John Lennon and Yoko Ono standing on the corner waiting for the light to change. I think "holy shit, John Lennon!" I jump off the bus at the next stop and start running uptown carrying my big porfolio and wearing my brand new Frye Boots which were killing me. I think, "What'll I do Read more..

Artist as Fool

Title: Artist as Fool By Larry Caveney It’s 5am and Scotty rolls over to look at the glowing clock radio and the face of his lover next to him. He gets up, scratches his ass, and stretches his huge frame of a body. It’s still dark, but Scotty uses the flashing street sign outside to make coffee and get ready for his day. After coffee, Scotty grooms himself in his too-small bathroom and too-small mirror. Scotty is about 6’5” and weighs 305 lbs. He shaves his head with a straight razor in the dim light of that New York morning. Moving over the scars of past miscalculations, he smiles at himself with mischievous satisfaction. Clean, propped up, and shaven, Scotty opens hi Read more..

Kai Althoff ~ Hearts of Darkness

"Pain(t) reviled" black blood red run like colors through tattered remains his skin of address mine blackened blue where!?! no lines confine discoloration without refrain hands of children raised against as if curled towards rage the bitter frieze laid to waste as she felled the image cast from memory grotesque grotesque remains spawning midnight and self reprove abstract barren thus born hung concrete dangling as she, he, they, her-t It, this thing opposed now past regret’s egress seeking reprieve emerges shielded by his o Read more..

Reconsidering Art as Transactional

The point of departure for the selection of this field for the present research paper is the personal mistranslation of D.W. Winnicott’s Transitional Phenomena (1971), and probably my background in the finance field made me use the term “Transactional Object” instead of “Transitional Object”. After the first assessment the tutor told me the following: Your mistranslation of the Winnicott term as a transactional object is actually more interesting in relation to your use of photography than the original idea of the transitional object (Williams 2007). After this feedback, I decided to use the transactional object as the field of my research paper. This research is based up on Read more..

SEE RED & BOYCOTT The Project (RED) Sotheby's Auction

SEE RED & BOYCOTT Project (RED) Auction Sotheby’s New York 14th February 2008 "An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. " Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948). We are calling upon Bono of The (Project) Red Campaign, Damien Hirst, Gagosian Gallery, Sotheyby’s and participating artists donating work for the United Nations Foundation to Support HIV/AIDS Relief Programs in Africa to postpone The (RED) Auction in light of the lethal dangers of ART (anti-retroviral therapy) as extensively reported in the medical literature. The promotion of ART in Africa is leading toward pharmagenocide - direct medical killing. It is has been scientifically demonstrate Read more..

human destiny?

HUMAN DESTINY? Page 01 In the genetic code of life-tree and the animal world lies a deep rooted, single action event that can identify the human branch from all others in the behavioral activity and doctrine from the infancy of life in our planet. In all of nature, different species have disputed territorial boundaries and regions. We human’s by a single act can literally end all that has evolved in this planet from day one in seconds. There are millions of species covering our planet, each with its own intelligence and beauty. All descendents of the same life-form that evolved back in time and place, some many millenniums ago. Yet we are negligently Read more..

The Door to Knowledge: The Work of Art as the ‘Depicted Image’ and ‘Spatio-temporal Information’

The visual approach, that is to say the ‘retinal’ message that enters into our inner conscience organically includes two structural dimensions: the immediate global perception of the aesthetic image in its entirety and the detailed analytical perception of each separate part of spatio-temporal information. These two both parallel and antithetical dimensions lead, albeit via different routes, to a common essential goal: the revelation of the expressive content of the work of art and of the work of the artist. The inborn communicative value to perception, always carried by the significant aesthetic image of the signs, can today be expressed- in line with the evolution of contemporary Read more..

The ‘sequentialist’ dimension to art

What differentiates the ‘sequentialist’ piece of art from other more established art ‘forms’, such as the figurative and abstract, that constitute the two image extremes of which the ‘aesthetic’ result is so inextricably linked to its expressive value? It is of course easy, in ‘sequentialist’ works of art, to dwell too much on the aesthetic appearance of the arrow-number signs, which, interpreted as figurative or abstract elements, contain the significant image that is so familiar to us. However it would be a gross oversimplification today, in the light of so much linguistic and technological progress, to limit the work of art as a pure and simple source of imagery, car Read more..

The Language Problem (in Art)

The Information Age, which has only just begun today, requires a certain amount of reflection and a completely innovative approach to multiple communicative aspects of our civilisation. It is not possible to face such an epic revolution without taking into account the fundamental contribution of the communicative ‘alter ego’ or an ‘entity of thought’ that is the computer. When I say ‘entity of thought’, I don’t mean the machine with a keyboard and monitor that we use every day to analyse and solve the problems of our existence, however large or small. I am making a more specific reference to that ‘connective’ spatio-temporal dimension known as virtual reality or cybers Read more..

Kartonaj technique

Paintig is usualy made to decorate the walls, that\'s why it is necessary to make pictures cheerful, nice and rich. Lesya Demchenkos pictures are realy rich, because of variety of colors and brightness, and of cause originality of material which used for it. İt is simple cardboard, which can be cuted, painted, glued and other pieces ofother paper are glued to create what we call real art. But it is not what we used to call collage. The main joke is how inside partoff cardboard is used İ mmean waves, which from distance look like stripes of color. The creator who works differently alredy wins muchrespect, but pictures of Demchenko became one off the most interesting artifacts of İstanbul Read more..

My review of the article ; Carlock Marty, ‘Taste the Pudding’, sculpture, Vol 26 no.8 October 2007 pp44-45 and the artist; John Armleders practise

This article is about an artist called John Armleder and his practise. What struck me about this article besides the bright neon lights was the artist’s attitude to art itself. Armleder feels that “The urge to understand has killed the urge to participate” So he creates exhibitions so random and diverse in form, he hopes the viewer will give up all hope on understanding it. He approaches his work by collecting a number of ready made objects and installs them in a playful and whimsical manner. ‘Pudding’ in the concept of Art is where Armleder provides the ingredients including the viewer and how the viewer decides to mix up the ingredients to creates a final opinion is up to them. Read more..

kosova drawing biennale

International BiennaIe of Drawing Kosova - 2008 Organizer: The Professional Association of Kosova Art The selected works will be exhibited in the Prishtina Art gallery Exhibition date: 17 April 2008 Terms of participation Monochrome drawings of maximum dimension 100 X 70 cm – dimension of paper Number of works: maximum 2 works, created after 2003 Application for the competition The application form must be enclosed in the package with the drawings and sent to the address: The Kosova Art Gallery Lidhja e Prizrenit 60 Prishtina, KOSOVO 10 000 On our website: www.kosova-biennale.blogspot.com Ceremonial Open : 17 Prill 2008 Hapja ceremoniale e Bienalit të Vizatimit Read more..

Hans Haacke: A Re-Cognition of Art

Article title: HANS HAACKE: A RE-COGNITION OF ART By Artur Golczewski, PhD, Assistant Professor, Art History, Department of Art, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614-0362 USA. Word count: 1467 The critical literature on Hans Haacke’s work is fairly consistent in its approach that identifies and appropriates his work, either consciously or not, within the well entrenched idealistic/formalistic rationale(s) of value of art. To observe the critic/reviewer’s struggles with Haacke’s work: charting the developments of formal relations or contriving explanatory stories of social evils that his work uncovers, is in itself one of the most in Read more..

SO WHAT IS ART, IN THE 21ST CENTURY?

Artists, as everyone else, are constantly bombarded with disheartening news and want to be able to do something about it, which, in many cases, comes through in our art and writing. I recently returned to university to pursue a degree in Art History and English and even my fellow classmates, as well as myself, attempt to discuss and write on topics that may transcend, and challenge, the ‘natural environments’ of those areas of study. Twenty-first century visual art and writing may be reinforcements of Jacques Derrida’s idea of deconstruction. Artists today rearrange the normal molecules of traditional art and transcend normal dimensions. They factor down their work to its purest Read more..

Dario Robleto: A Poetry of Materials

To some, it may feel like all contemporary art is the same conceptual-on-conceptual action over and over again. Idea-based art certainly exerts an irresistible influence over the contemporary scene, but there has also been a return to corporeality: both artists and viewers are appreciating materials and craftsmanship in a new way. This trend manifests itself in many ways, as can be seen broadly in the contemporary craft movement and specifically in Damien Hirst�s terrifyingly expensive skull ("For the Love of God," 2007) but I am concerned with a very specific aspect of what we might term this new materiality. This is the phenomenon of highly specific objects and substances used in artmak Read more..

Vincent Van Gogh and Multidimensional world

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/dimensions.html the Elegant Universe,in Imagining Other Dimensions, by Rick Groleau it discussed the possibility of the existence of 10 or more dimensions http://www.europhysicsnews.com/full/14/article5/article5.html Europhysics News (2002) Vol. 33 No. 2 How many dimensions to our Universe? Pierre Bin�truy LPT, Universit� Paris-Sud and APC, Universit� Paris 7, France "physicists have grown used over the last century to the idea that there might be some compact dimensions" in "Starry Night, c.1889,Vincent Van Gogh" did he touch on this subject? was he pointing towards the possibility of us living in a Multidimensional world? no straight l Read more..

Art and the Paranormal

Artists have often sought to portray invisible dimensions and powers surrounding us. Picasso repeatedly remarked that his every painting exorcised real demons by fixing them on canvas. But can this current also flow back in the other direction, so that occult forces themselves become prime movers in artistically creative processes? Both Mondrian and Kandinsky maintained extensive personal contacts with Theosophic teachers, and their writings testify to how highly these unusual friends were regarded. Kandinsky�s diaries specifically record practices designed to stimulate spiritual abilities as an engine for manifesting artistic excellence. Quite a number of prominent Surrealists cultiv Read more..

Le notti di Sabba

Le notti di sabba Intervento per il progetto “Streghe e altre donne” del MIDA (Museo internazionale della Donna nell’Arte) Scontrone (AQ) Artista: Sonja de Graaf Chi è la Strega? Secondo Ovidio nel VI libro dei Fasti il nome Strix, dato a un essere spesso considerato un uccello, ma da molti considerata come una vecchia trasformata in volatile, proviene dal fatto che esso di notte emette un suono simile ad un suono stridulo (stridere nocte solent). Non è chiaro se la consideri un uccello simile ad un’arpia, oppure se siano vere e proprie donne, anziane, trasformate. Questa trasformazione avveniva in genere in due modi: mediante l’unguento, o tramite incantesimi Read more..

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