01:56:11 “Juxtaposition is the act of positioning close together–as in a side-by-side composition.” 01:57:35 “Random juxtaposition causes the stimulation of creativity in art, design or other lesser creative pursuits by contrasting two unrelated concepts or objects. Usually the goal or problem to be solved is on the one hand and…
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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 emotional power. In their most general form these activities include the production of works of…
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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 Cathartic or Creative Worthless or Valuable
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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 work to its function. You are able to distinguish between the styles of writers who write novels and the styles…
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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. In this case, The Creative Triad. More mysterious. Even.
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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, widely-spaced or overlapping. Magenta dots, for example, are widely-spaced to create pink. In the 1950s and 1960s pulp comic books…
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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 is a photographic interpretation of that. ©2013 Photographic Suprematism Eric Wells Hatheway All Rights Reserved
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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 grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three…
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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 with you everywhere you go!
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