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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
By the mid 19th century plein air landscape painting was well established by pioneering landscape artists like Corot, Michallon, Millet, Daubigny, among many. They brought plein air oil sketch effects into the studio and applied them to larger exhibition works. … Continued
Our ability to recognize patterns and convert them into useable, purposeful and decorative material has thousands of years of history. Much of it began in the Middle East. In 15th through 17th centuries Persian patterns had become formalized, from Islamic … Continued
You and I have a brain that tells us where to look and what to look for. It’s selective and predictive. It looks on to the environment’s reflective patterns of light with expectations. It stops when it finds them. The … Continued
Coats of arms have historically been signifiers, I.D.’s, logos placed on shields, above doorways and high in great halls. We looked up to our ancestors and symbolized them to reinforce our own identity. I remember my mother painstakingly painting a … Continued