MetaForms and MetaNudes etcetera, by author JD SAGE, was written as an art piece to document and address the use of transformations, numbers, symbols and the element of time in art. AUDIENCE Educated laypersons interested in art history, the application of mathematics to art and how the arts and sciences interface. Computer artists. Scientists and mathematicians with an…
Month: January 2015
can art still shock?
Is Grayson Perry right – can we no longer be outraged by art and literature? From Manet’s Olympia to Pussy Riot and Houellebecq, Adam Thirlwell presents a short history of shock {Adam Thirlwell, 23 January 2015, The Guardian; featured image: Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain (1917).Photograph: Alfred Stieglitz/AP} For a long time, I’ve been nostalgic for the era of…
radiography of the matter. herman kolgen + the sound perception
{article by Enrico Pitozzi via Digicult, featured image Herman Kolgen – Inject (2010) – Photo by Herman Kolgen} Among the interesting figures of the artistic panorama, Herman Kolgen lives in Montreal (Quebec, Canada). Audiokinetic sculptor, he works starting from the relationship between sound and image creating, from their divergence, works presented as installations, performances, sound…
raphael’s small cowper madonna :: worcester art museum
{article and image via ART Daily, posted 26 January 2015} WORCESTER, MASS. – The loan of Raphael’s Small Cowper Madonna from Washington’s National Gallery of Art from January 24 through September 27, 2015, provides a rare opportunity to study our own Northbrook Madonna and perhaps uncover the mystery of who painted it. Here Jon L. Seydl,…
spain says art submitted in lieu of tax last year not good enough
Taxpayers will have to cough up the cash since the state declined to acquire the works for public collections (via The Art Newspaper. By Belén Palanco. Published online: 22 January 2015} Francisco de Goya’s Tobias and the angel, around 1787, Museo del Prado The Spanish Government did not accept any art in lieu of tax in…
9 things you didn’t know about Wassily Kandinsky
December 16th was the birthday of Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, a man whose abstract art made history in the 20th century and whose name continues to stump English speakers long after his death. In honor of Vah-SEEL-ee Kahn-DIN-skee’s big day, Katherine Brooks of The Huntington Post collected some of the more interesting facts from his…
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