A precision instrument for the remote detection of questionable visual taste. For generations, artists, collectors, designers, and curators have relied upon intuition, long experience, and the occasional raised eyebrow to…
Please Read On ...Locate Bad Art From a LONG DISTANCE! Introducing the Model A-1 Aesthetic Discrimination Device. At last—an instrument for those unfortunate moments when your trained eye senses trouble, but polite society…
Please Read On ...Subtractive color is a method of producing color by removing (absorbing) certain wavelengths of light from white light using pigments, dyes, inks, or colored filters. The remaining wavelengths that are…
Please Read On ...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…
Please Read On ...In my Illegal Art series, one of the most striking pieces is titled Evasion. It captures a man clad entirely in black, complete with a ski mask, frozen mid-stride in…
Please Read On ...There is a quiet conversation happening in the painting Two of Us. At first glance, you see two human profiles, each gazing away from the other, their outlines forming a…
Please Read On ...Authority of Form is the moment structure stops asking and starts declaring. It is not decoration. Not excess. Not noise.It is decision made visible. When a composition carries authority, nothing…
Please Read On ...Illusograph is a word I have coined that might describe a complicated-looking diagram that appears very important but is just an illustration. This term combines “illustration” and “graph,” suggesting a…
Please Read On ...This is my working definition of Illegal Art. It is art such that it derives its structural tension from a prohibited use—of image, symbol, system, or authorship. Not rebellion for…
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The Artist
Eric Hatheway