Arteliance

all installation photos - a photoset on Flickr

Wonderful, alive and beautiful - worth visiting the whole flickr set.

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GTD drawings: Picasso and creativity

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. —Picasso

The Body: Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art

In 1997 we suggested Day Without Art become a Day WITH Art, to recognize and promote increased programming of cultural events that draw attention to the continuing pandemic. Though “the name was retained as a metaphor for the chilling possibility of a future day without art or artists”, we added parentheses to the program title, Day With(out) Art, to highlight the proactive programming of art projects by artists living with HIV/AIDS, and art about AIDS, that were taking place around the world. It had become clear that active interventions within the annual program were far more effective than actions to negate or reduce the programs of cultural centers.

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Citrus theme by minimanjapan

kuler colour theme generator. One of the joys of my new computer is getting to try out lots of new (to me) applications.

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Curiously Withstood, Acrylic on paper, 10 X 19 in.

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Esplanade Art Gallery

July 22 - September 17, 2006

This piece will then go to become part of the Travelling Exhibition: The Hat Art Club at Sixty from October 2006 to September 2007.

I am asked to talk about my art sometimes. I sense that hunger for understanding within the audience. I used to feel pressurised to come up with answers to satisfy that hunger. I have learned that it can lead to me coming up with hurried and spurious interpretations of my own work.

Such is the status that meaning can have over feeling that I bow to the pressure and engage what Steven Pinker calls the “Baloney Generator.” This is our rational self that is so uncomfortable with the potential ambiguity of an emotional motivation that it will try to pin things down with desperately formulated rationales. The cleverer we are the better we are at making up more convincing meanings and reasons.

Nowadays I employ a more open strategy and talk about the things I was looking at and thinking about when I was making a particular piece and leave it up to the audience to make their own direct connections. This feels more satisfying and true than any nailed-down explanation.

Trust your own reactions, don’t seek enlightenment Grayson Perry

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In no particular order of importance, I believe artwork can be judged on at least the following criteria:

• Emotional provocation
• “Craftmanship”
• Innovation
• Truth
• Conceptual complexity/quality
• Integrity (or consistency)
• Transcendentalism

Edward_ Winkleman: Truth

Still Life, 84.02.15, silkscreen on paper, 12 X 12 in. Enlarge

Last weekend I took a 2-day figure drawing workshop from an instructor I had in art college over 20 years ago. He still had this print that I had done in his first year printmaking class.

In short, when you look at a snapshot you took at the beach, the limitations of the camera mean that three-quarters of the scene will have been lopped off, the range of tones will be compressed tenthousandfold, and the information that remains will never be what you saw. Any appearance of realism will be an inference informed by learning and shaped by convention. It is not realism but verisimilitude.

Photographs may seem realistic but the technology of film prevents escaping photographic conventions, which are actually quite limiting. Less limiting is a paintbrush. A brush can produce every effect a camera can plus a great many more. Before photography, skilful and observant artists spent millennia working out how to represent reality on flat surfaces using this superior tool. Their work forms the most complete guide available on realistic ways to put pictures onto paper.

I’ve always felt that a painting or drawing should be more than a photo, more than a realistic representation of the surface of something or someone. This article explains that and details how to improve digital photographs by incorporating the principles of perception and art.

TidBITS: Reality and Digital Pictures via: penmachine.com