Yes, all art is abstract—to a degree. And, that idea has a long, quietly subversive lineage. Even the most “realistic” painting is an abstraction. The moment an artist translates the three-dimensional, time-bound world into a flat, framed surface, something is selected, something is omitted, and something is interpreted. That act…
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There’s something delicious about saying chiaroscuro out loud—it rolls through the mouth like a studio secret you’ve earned. And, if you may feel this word is a bit less spoken today, almost as if it’s been absorbed into the bloodstream of art and no longer needs to announce itself. Here,…
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Some phrases don’t explain themselves—they lodge. They bypass understanding and take up residence. “Remove the optic callous” is one of those phrases. My sculpture professor enlightened me with this phrase in art school and it has stuck with me all these years. It sounds vaguely medical, faintly accusatory, and just…
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This is the second part in a series of interview with Eric Hatheway as conducted by the senior ranking correspondent at EricHatheway.com, the Groovy One – Dirque du Soleil. Dirque du Soleil is a writer of uncertain credentials, extravagant curiosity, and a firm belief that most design conferences would benefit…
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This is the first part in a series of interview with Eric Hatheway as conducted by the senior ranking correspondent at EricHatheway.com, the Groovy One – Dirque du Soleil. Eric Hatheway & Dirque du Soleil Dirque du Soleil: Ladies and gentlemen, thinkers and doodlers, welcome! Tonight’s act features a man…
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From time to time civilization produces a device that changes everything. The printing press. The camera. The humble coffee maker. And now, quietly joining those ranks of cultural significance, the Bad Art Detector™ Model A-1. Practical Uses For Home & Office Originally engineered as a portable Aesthetic Discrimination Device, the…
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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 determine the quality of an artwork. While these methods have served reasonably well, they remain subject to fatigue, social pressure,…
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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 requires restraint. The Bad Art Detector™ Model A-1 is the latest achievement from the laboratories of Research Products, where engineers,…
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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 reflected or transmitteddetermine the color that the human eye perceives. The primary colors in the subtractive system are cyan, magenta,…
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