Posts Tagged 'seeing'
Made in the Machine: Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff’s photographs have lost their innocence. His work is a repeated exercise in a technology mediated vision, where the promise of machine made images is troubling, alluring & unavoidable.
Made in the Machine: Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff’s photographs have lost their innocence. His work is a repeated exercise in a technology mediated vision, where the promise of machine made images is troubling, alluring & unavoidable.
The Disordered Eye: Bill Armstrong
Edgar Degas fought a creeping blindness for much of his life, but the effects of his blurred vision helped to make his masterworks. Bill Armstrong uses photography in a similar vein, as a medium of blindness, where what we cannot quite make-out may be the whole point.
The Disordered Eye: Bill Armstrong
Edgar Degas fought a creeping blindness for much of his life, but the effects of his blurred vision helped to make his masterworks. Bill Armstrong uses photography in a similar vein, as a medium of blindness, where what we cannot quite make-out may be the whole point.
William Blake: The Representation of Vision
Poet, painter, engraver and prophet, William Blake is arguably the greatest artist Britain ever produced, whose singular talents were neglected for almost a century after his death. For Blake, a man’s vision was the one and only great fact about him. Poetry, art and religion were not separate activities, but all extensions of man’s greatest quality: his imagination.
William Blake: The Representation of Vision
Poet, painter, engraver and prophet, William Blake is arguably the greatest artist Britain ever produced, whose singular talents were neglected for almost a century after his death. For Blake, a man’s vision was the one and only great fact about him. Poetry, art and religion were not separate activities, but all extensions of man’s greatest quality: his imagination.
An Idea Of Rigor
The dreams of a dark abyss are a chosen hardship, like a poem. To enter into such a place is to engage in a poetic kind of thinking. Because the clear demarcations and road signs are all gone, only an imaginative, strenuous and curious state of mind will suffice to traverse the way. An idea of rigor pervades all poetic thinking.
An Idea Of Rigor
The dreams of a dark abyss are a chosen hardship, like a poem. To enter into such a place is to engage in a poetic kind of thinking. Because the clear demarcations and road signs are all gone, only an imaginative, strenuous and curious state of mind will suffice to traverse the way. An idea of rigor pervades all poetic thinking.
Promiscuous Visions: The Hackers At The Heart of Photography
Photographers have been hacking into the medium of photography from its very inception. Confined not just to the world of computers, “Hack Value” describes the creative ethos of an artist interested in fully exploring a System to stretch its capabilities, as opposed to an ordinary user, who prefers to use the system as originally designed.
Promiscuous Visions: The Hackers At The Heart of Photography
Photographers have been hacking into the medium of photography from its very inception. Confined not just to the world of computers, “Hack Value” describes the creative ethos of an artist interested in fully exploring a System to stretch its capabilities, as opposed to an ordinary user, who prefers to use the system as originally designed.
The Quest of Beauty
One of America’s most acclaimed artists, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) embraced virtually every artistic medium, from stained glass windows, lamps and mosaics, to pottery, metalwork, interiors and enamels. Tiffany used the medium of glass to challenge the pre-eminence of painting. In glass, Tiffany found a medium of endless possibilities that expressed his love of light and color.
The Quest of Beauty
One of America’s most acclaimed artists, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) embraced virtually every artistic medium, from stained glass windows, lamps and mosaics, to pottery, metalwork, interiors and enamels. Tiffany used the medium of glass to challenge the pre-eminence of painting. In glass, Tiffany found a medium of endless possibilities that expressed his love of light and color.
The Significance of Light
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was the English Romantic landscape painter par excellence, and a dramatist of light. Turner’s genius lies in his recognition of the significance of light as more than just an optical phenomenon or parlor trick for atmospheric heroics. Light is not “present” in his paintings, in so much as it is a singular, haunting presence.
The Significance of Light
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was the English Romantic landscape painter par excellence, and a dramatist of light. Turner’s genius lies in his recognition of the significance of light as more than just an optical phenomenon or parlor trick for atmospheric heroics. Light is not “present” in his paintings, in so much as it is a singular, haunting presence.
