Scale – the ratio of the length in a drawing to the length of the real thing. Sometimes the role of the artist is not to depict what is real but to use scale as a mode of articulation in the generation of conceptual or theoretical explorations. This condition is…
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The Office of Works was established in the English Royal household in 1378 to oversee the building of the royal castles and residences. This piece of art is not about that …. or is it? “In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.” ~…
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The point–line–plane postulate is a collection of assumptions (axioms) that can be used in a set of postulates for geometry in two (plane geometry), three (solid geometry) or more dimensions. That is exactly what I meant here …. ©2017 “Point-Line-Plane” Eric Hatheway All Rights Reserved Mixed Media on Paper
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Red is the color at the longer-wavelengths end of the spectrum of visible light next to orange, at the opposite end from violet. It has historically been associated with sacrifice, danger and courage. Sometimes, it’s just fun to look at and fun to use. “A certain red affects your blood…
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The stylistic changes that mark the shift from the Renaissance to the Baroque are very dramatic. The Baroque era spanned a turbulent century and a half. Roughly, the Baroque era started in 1600 and continued until around 1750. The term “baroque” probably came from the Portuguese word barroco, which was…
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10:09:52 “Objects are immediately seen as having a certain size as well as having a location in space. No object is seen as being unique or isolated. A scale of size, a scale of brightness, or a scale of distance is always present in the total visual/perceptual field.” 10:10:04 “To…
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Abstract art is generally taken to mean painting and sculpture by artists for whom the manner and the means are the subject rather than the representation of any object. All art is abstract to some degree; that is, it is removed from the perceived elements of nature. The sculpture of…
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Chiaroscuro, an Italian word for “clear–dark”, is a term in art for a contrast between light and dark. The term is usually applied to bold contrasts affecting a whole composition, but is also more technically used by artists and art historians for the use of effects representing contrasts of light,…
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Concerning art, when is the medium more valuable than the message? In this case, the medium (bronze) seems to have gained much more value lately than the visions or messages of sculptors. For centuries, sculptors have used bronze as one of their preferred mediums for public and private statues and…
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