Art is a widely diverse range of human activities involved with creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author’s imaginative or technical skill. Art is intended to be appreciated for their beauty or…
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Welcome to the Art Line! The Art Line ©2017 Eric Hatheway Crossing this line is the difference between: Bad or Good Schlock or Masterpiece Crafts or Art Tasteless or Tasteful…
Style can be defined as a characteristic manner of presentation in any art form. The word can refer to to the elements of flexibility that shapes each type of art…
Triad: a group or set of three connected people or things. Also, a chord of three musical notes, consisting of a given note with the third and fifth above it.…
Benday Dots, a printing process named after illustrator and printer Benjamin Day, is similar to Pointillism. Depending on the effect, color and optical illusion needed, small colored dots are closely-spaced,…
Suprematism is an art movement, focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colors. It was founded by Kazimir Malevich in Russia, around 1913. This…
Piet Mondriaan (1872 – 1944) was a Dutch painter. He was a contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed neoplasticism. This consisted of white ground, upon which he painted a…
Chart: The Evolution Of Cubism And Abstract Art In handy chart form, here is your everyday guide to the evolution of Cubism and Abstract Art. Clip and Save. Carry it…
Have A Dali Day! Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Pubol, also known as Salvador Dalí. (May 1904 –January 1989). Please …
Respect The Power Of Art ©1994 Eric Wells Hatheway All Rights Reserved
A Modernist Photographer Avant-garde and Modernist Magazines from the 1920s … Special issue of Die Form on Film und Foto exhibition in Stuttgart and Berlin, Germany. Published in May…
The Hidden Structure Of A Square 1) Objects within the square are perceived immediately as having a certain size. 2) Every object is seen as having a location within the…
Andy Warhol on the Subject of Beauty Here are some interesting excerpts from The Philosophy Of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again). The topic is beauty as…
Do you draw or paint? You are in demand if you can draw. Close cover before striking match! And remember … You are a man if you can draw! ……
Art Deco is an architectural and decorative-arts style, popular from 1910 to 1940, that is characterized by highly stylized natural and geometric forms and ornaments, usually strongly symmetrical. Outstanding American…
Kustom Kar Kommandos A Short Film By Kenneth Anger (1965) Kustom Kar Kommandos is a 1965 short film by the underground avant garde film director Kenneth Anger. The film is…
Swinging Bachelor Pads (Part 2) A bachelor pad is a slang term for a house (pad) in which a bachelor (a single man) lives. The exact standards on what constitutes a bachelor pad are often ambiguous…
Swinging Bachelor Pads (Part 1) A bachelor pad is a slang term for a house (pad) in which a bachelor (a single man) lives. The exact standards on what constitutes a bachelor pad are often ambiguous…
