Vintage Bottle Cap Designs
Dirque du SoleilBottle caps are a type of closure used to seal the openings of bottles of many types. They can be small circular pieces of metal, usually steel, with plastic backings,…
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Strange Vintage Valentines
The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately 190 million valentines are sent each year in the United States. Half of those valentines are given to family members other than…
Please Read On ...Conceptual Art: The Idea Becomes A Machine
The ArtistThe term conceptual art came into use about 1965, to describe art in which the artist’s propositional concept is of primary importance but the manner and matter of execution are…
Please Read On ...Juxtapose This
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…
Please Read On ...Infrared
Infrared is electromagnetic radiation with longer wavelengths than those of visible light, and is therefore invisible. Slightly more than half of the total energy from the Sun was eventually found…
Please Read On ...Crop Suey!
Cropping, or Crop Suey, refers to the removal of the outer parts of an image to improve framing, accentuate subject matter or change the aspect ratio of the image. Depending…
Please Read On ...The Primary Colors
The human eye is not a selective instrument; it cannot distinguish two superimposed colors as such. Taking advantage of this fact, in 1801, Thomas Young, and later Hermann von Helmholtz,…
Please Read On ...The Concept Of Style
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…
Please Read On ...The Spectral Colors
White light can be dispersed by a prism, which resolves a beam of white light into its colored components, the spectrum. Visible light is electromagnetic radiation within a wavelength range…
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