MetaForms and MetaNudes etcetera, available on iBooks, 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. This eBook III is an extension of the soft covered book MetaForms and MetaNudes etcetera. It contains two new chapters, Residuals and…
Month: February 2015
leonardo da vinci masterpiece :: geniuses second-guess themselves
{via The Huffington Post | By Jacqueline Howard | Posted: 10/02/2014} Leonardo da Vinci may have been a genius, but that doesn’t mean he never second-guessed himself. In a new book, optical engineer Pascal Cotte explains how a new imaging technology known as the layer amplification method (LAM) helped show that Leonardo painted two previous versions…
geometric shapes in snow :: snow art
Stunning geometric shapes appear in snow on frozen, isolated lakes {by Allyssia Alleyne, for CNN, January 6, 2015} CNN – If you frequent the pistes of the French Alps, you may see more than just skiers and snowmen scattered around the trails below. For the last 10 years, British artist Simon Beck has been decorating snow-covered…
the starry messenger
VAN GOGH | A Power Seething | by Julian Bell | Illustrated. 163 pp. New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $20. As a fledgling artist, Vincent van Gogh hired a carpenter to build a perspective frame: a wire-grid window. He used it to draw the Dutch countryside, his eyes darting between his pencil and the views through the frame….
his pain, the audience’s pleasure
Woody Allen’s 1960s stand-up character tapped into a personal neurosis. {The Wall Street Journal, written by Raymond Siller, Jan. 26, 2015; featured image via Time.com} After four decades of making movies for the large screen, Woody Allen has struck a deal with Amazon, announced recently, to write and direct a half-hour comedy series for its Prime Instant…
unfinished work :: gustav klimt
The Huffington Post | By Katherine Brooks | Posted: 01/27/2015 Some of the world’s most famous artworks are nomadic. They travel from one institution to another, borrowed and lent across museums so that art admirers in continents too far to touch can view them. They are gently packaged and shipped overseas, ushered into temporary homes by…
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