The series of paintings String Theories begins with a simple premise: everything is connected, although the evidence is rarely conclusive. These paintings occupy the uneasy territory between order and disorder, geometry and gesture, calculation and intuition. Blocks of color establish a kind of architectural framework—rectangles, fields, compartments, planes and boundaries—while…
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In the middle of the twentieth century, at a moment when architecture was rapidly aligning itself with industry, standardization, and the logic of the machine, Le Corbusier proposed something at once rational and poetic: a system of measurement rooted not in abstract units, but in the human body. He called…
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This article, The 50 Secrets of Magic Design is written after the spirit—if not the spectacle—of Salvador Dalí and his book, The 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, written in 1948. Dali offered the 50 secrets for painting through his well-known eccentricities, philosophies and odd artistic practices in this very important…
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Dada, an art movement that peaked between 1916 and the 1920s, emerged as a protest against the horrors of war, particularly World War I. They were deeply disillusioned by the war’s devastation and saw art as a tool that failed to save civilization from its destructive consequences. Dadaists organized demonstrations,…
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Post-Modernism did not kill art or the possibility of future art movements—but it did make them smaller, looser, and harder to name with a straight face. Apparently, the historians and critics, intent on labeling something because that is what they do, settled on some laughable names to describe what they…
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Short answer? No.More accurate answer? Post-Modernism was the end of believing there was a single road at all. Post-Modernism didn’t kill art—it detonated the map. Modernism still trusted progress: each movement reacting to the last, pushing toward some purer truth of form, medium, or perception. Post-Modernism walked in, raised an…
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Postmodernism (roughly 1960s/70s–1990s) reacted against modernism’s faith in progress, universal truths, originality, and “grand narratives” (e.g., art constantly advancing toward pure form or social utopia). It embraced irony, pastiche, appropriation, the blurring of high/low culture, and skepticism about stable meaning. Think Cindy Sherman’s film-still self-portraits questioning identity, Jeff Koons’ balloon…
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These are some Bauhaus designs made with Kittl for one of their recent design challenges. It is always fun and rewarding to do anything with a Bauhaus influence. Thanks for visiting!
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