Art has created itself a recent love affair with interactivity and connectivity. The emergent artist uses artistic production as a means to gather information and filter it back into a work of art. This notion describes the situation for a new work to come about, but newly privileged questions of site, audience, composition, and even [...]
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Writing and Using Color It doesn’t need to be said that color plays, and should play, an important role in art. The range of shades and values help with representation, form, and composition. During his life, Gauguin developed a disposition against European politics and culture. He become entranced with the primitive which he association with [...]
View Post abstraction, art, art world, artwork, color, derain, Design, gauguin, impressionism, kirchner, matisse, paul, picasso, research, symbolic, tahitiThe Changing Realm of Composition since the 1950’s

Joseph Kosuth starts off one of his most famous articles with the statement, “The twentieth century brought in a time which could be called “the end of philosophy and the beginning of art” (1). This discussion shall situate itself in a like arena only for the reason that the work in question is about the [...]
View Post 1950, art, artwork, artworld, change, composition, donald, joseph, judd, kosuth, minimalism, realmThe Cathedral of Speyer & the Shrine of Ise

Religious architecture seemingly, unlike most other architecture, revolves less around a buildings functionality but more around the conceptual value of the building – not, “how do we use it?” but, “why and what do we use it for”. The suggestion is that churches have altars for symbolic reasons and that these altars tell us something [...]
View Post architecture, art, cathedral, Design, gothic, ise, renaissance, shrine, speyerOn Barbara Kruger & Hal Foster

Fosters primary belief is that art, starting no less than twenty-three years prior to now, represents no art yet conceived. Of course, it fits into a historical hierarchy of past art, but only in means on a continuity of time. Art now, so Foster believes, is more concerned with relating the everyday, the personal and [...]
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