Those dual interests intersect in the mating of objectivity with subjectivity.
Skill and accuracy are not a substitute for artistic imagination in internet end pages stacked with cornerstones of art history. The Greek nymphs from ancient mythology are living examples of personification of nature. It’s not a few bad apples.
Those dual interests intersect in the mating of objectivity with subjectivity.
Art has a long history of presenting dead characters as sort of alive.
And long wall texts telling you exactly how to understand the work.
As ancient greeks used to say, there is something ghostly in all great art.
Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow,
Shakespeare, The tragedy of Macbeth, Scene V; Shakespeare is still relevant because we have not changed as people.
Drawing from life is better than listening to the philosophers of art.
A color picture of visual metaphor in art for art with a black-and-white soul. Modern art goes binary. Pencil drawings are shades of grey in an oversimplified black and white world.
Art comes forth from making sense of the weird artists with a passion that cannot be halted by a philosophy.
For Erebus it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Aluminium etchings witty doodles trouble received ideas of form and formalism.
Un problème qui vient de la nuit des temps.
Artistic anatomy is accurate and beautifully decadent, suggesting the artist had an imagination or a sense of humor.
Dada wasn’t mindless chaos, it was deliberate absurdity as protest. That's where the subjectivity of art is.
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