19 Monday Jun 2017
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The digital world has improved art in so many ways, especially becoming more accessible for everyone, which I believe is essential to educate and inspire the upcoming generations. The Belgian Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage has made available all 14 volumes of Max J. Friedlander’s English edition of Early Netherlandish Painting (1967-1976). Search for old photos and references to your heart’s content here
16 Friday Jun 2017
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Perspectivism covers a variety of techniques for representing space by creating the illusion of three dimensions on two dimensional surface such as a canvas or paper. Perspective developed as a coherent body of rules and theories during the early Renaissance of the mid 15th century, but Leonardo Da Vinci were already exploring its limitations much earlier than that.
The linear perspective term was created to describe this technique, its adopts a vanishing point on the horizon (sometimes we can find multiple vanishing points in a single painting), all imaginary or actual lines in the painting which recede towards the horizon. Also the scale of everything in the painting can be strictly worked out in relation to the vanishing point.
Da Vinci was the first one to achieve convincing “aerial perspective” – term he invented to describe such accomplishment. In our eyes perception the objects which are further away look paler and bluer through the effect of the atmosphere. Aerial perspective applies this principle in art to create the impression of space through careful control of colour and tone. I always say that in order to be great artist you have to be able to perceive what you are looking at, and forget what you think it is supposed to look like.
Some of the Artists:
13 Tuesday Jun 2017
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Idealism states that the physical world is less important than the spiritual, implicating that such gives life to the other and without the soul the material cannot live.
Plato’s theory of the Forms was the most important Classical influence on Renaissance Idealism. The Ideas (forms) supposedly holds the unchangeable laws of the universe, while the material world is subject of transformations, being considered weak and shallow.
The leading artists of the High Renaissance – Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo – are all associated with slightly different forms of idealism. Michelangelo’s was most identified with the Platonic Forms because of his reliance on his imagination. Michelangelo’s art also idealised the body by giving it monumental proportions, his figures are usually astonishingly muscular. Raphael’s figures are equally idealised but they are characterised by sweetness of expressions, serenity, elegance and beautiful colors. Leonardo’s idealism was characterised by an emphasis on finding the Divine in the perfectly human figure. The renaissance idealism artists chose to paint in this style not to hide the human imperfection but to show their ability to create with absolute beauty what it could be.
Some of the Artists:
13 Tuesday Jun 2017
Posted in Art Appreciation, Artist, Fine Art, Museum, Social Media
The Getty museum has uploaded 30,000 high digital images onto it’s site for use with ‘IIIF’, which is pronounced ‘triple eye eff’, and stands for International Image Interoperability Framework. It is very handy for art lovers because it allows you to compare on a single screen digital images of works from musems around the world. The video above gives you a demonstration, and you can read more about it here.
13 Tuesday Jun 2017
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Transformers movie ad committee had come up with a very clever ad to promote its new movie, they inserted a Transformer figure into a painting at Dulwich Picture Gallery, and filmed the reactions of the visitors. It was just a copy of the original painting, but it was well executed. I like the idea of surprising visitors, and prompting them to look closer at pictures, making them curious, involved and asking questions about the work.
I really believe in order to make museums more popular we need to make them appealing to the new generation, and combining their passion with art is one of the ways it can be done. Good job Paramount films!
08 Thursday Jun 2017
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I started working on Digital Art this year, and preserving it is one of my concerns. All my work is saved in Adobe Illustrator format, which I believe is the safest for images. However, storing the files is a problem. Let’s hope they come up with a solution for it pretty soon!
01 Thursday Jun 2017
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Jstor has a collection of old journals about the Art World that I’ve been reading and finding it fascinating. It has articles by famous art critics, like Wellington Ruckstukl, and even though most of them are from the early 1900’s , we can find lots of material combining art and mathematics, philosophy, history… making them timeless. Hope you guys enjoy it: JSTOR Early Journal Content, The Art World
