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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
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
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
According to the Museum of Modern Art, decalcomania has its origins in the 18th century but would later be popularized by surrealists like Max Ernst and Oscar Dominguez. I think the origins go back much further perhaps as early as … Continued
European conventions for both subject matter and composition were well in place by the 1500’s. How to describe and color, fabric, stone, armor, water, trees, were conventionally defined but, were continually refined through the sensitive observations of artists like Mantegna, … Continued
We have so many tools to help us create ambiguity. Photographs can be manipulated in the camera and, in software and, in the printer. After printing an image I occasionally overprint it with another but, dissimilar image. I expect a … Continued