The grassy knoll is a small, sloping hill inside the plaza that became well-known following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The knoll was above Kennedy and to his right…
Tag: Fine Art
“You’re right, babe. You got big problems!” ©2017 “Poorhouse/Crackhouse” Eric Hatheway All Rights Reserved Mixed Media on Paper
A deadline is the latest time or date by which something should be completed. Or, a deadline is a line drawn around a prison beyond which prisoners were shot. ©2017 “The Deadline” Eric…
Humans have a multitude of senses. Sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch are the five traditionally recognized senses. Here are four …. ©2017 “Four Visible Senses” Eric Hatheway All Rights Reserved Mixed…
Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential.…
Solved for humans as the human that solved for the parts. Phi (Φ) equals 1.618033988749895. The ratio, or proportion, determined by Phi was known to the ancient Greeks as the “dividing a…
Made in China is a country of origin label affixed to products manufactured in the People’s Republic of China. To make things in China, things must be measured in China. Hopefully,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
The Bauhaus (the full name Bauhaus means “state building house”) was the most famous school of architecture and design of the 20th century. Founded by Walter Gropius at Weimar, Germany,…
George Maciunas was a founding member and the central coordinator of Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers. He made several short films called FluxFilms. Here are a couple…
