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Abstract: to remove, simplify, reduce, or extract something or, to consider a concept as in a nonphysical reality. Abstract: to reduce to an essence, to seek the quintessential aspect of something, to find a particular aspect of something as separate … Continued
Looking back to Ming China (1368-1644) we find experiments in landscape and intimate garden painting. Formalized Chinese landscape painting had begun a thousand years earlier in the Han dynasty. By the Ming period artists explored more intimate points of view … Continued
A zig zag, meander, or serpentine pattern offers much to the artist. It can help unite disparate areas of a painting. It can serve as a metaphorical shape packed with mythical meanings. And, through foreshortening it can provide a strong … Continued
We credit Leonardo da Vinci with introducing the theories of chiaroscuro and S’fumato to painting. To clarify how chiaroscuro (light against dark) works let’s look at a detail from the dark in da Vinci’s “Virgin in the Rocks” (example 1). … Continued
Among our first primordial human passions was collecting sea shells for aesthetic, utilitarian and commercial purposes. Across time and cultures seashells have played a role in art, commerce, religion, and our technology. Let’s consider the aesthetics of seashells in painting … Continued
Even before Ulysses ports were starting points for adventure and welcoming sites of homecoming. They have been the nexus of cultures. New ideas arrive as others are exported. Life is sustained and enriched as trade passes through them. Inevitably, they … Continued