Category: + Concepts
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What persists is the absence!
I want the images I create to remain in the viewer’s memory as an evocative absence.
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My personal proposal Understanding Art: From the invention of photography until today
My personal proposalUnderstanding Art: From the invention of photography until today1830s: invention of photography (Premodern Art) 1872: Monet (Impression: Sunrise) The historical avant-gardes in Paris: Impressionism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism & Surrealism. (MODERN ART) 1914-1918: WW I Art between wars: A profound reflection on the consequences of the Great War and a search for new…
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Brief chronology of Sculpture:
(1) Attached or relief sculpture. (1.1) Bas-relief sculpture is believed to be the oldest sculptural manifestation since prehistoric cave art. (1.2) The relief sculpture is attached to the surface but has a protruding part creating a sense of 3D.(2) Freestanding or round sculptures are later; now the work can be examined from all angles. Another,…
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Romanesque & Gothic Art.
Gothic Art developed north of the Loire River, between the 12th & 16th centuries. It is characterized by verticality, light, pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and colorful stained glass windows, especially in cathedrals. Romanesque Art developed south of the Loire River, between the 11th and 13th centuries, is the first unified artistic style of the Western Christian…
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The First Commandment
This must be, for me and I believe for millions of others, the first commandment. It’s obligatory! Let us strive to make every life a work of art.
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Abstraction: Ends & Means
Classical Abstraction is a MEANS to transmit a message or reach a reference, individual characteristics are eliminated to convoy something general.Modern abstraction is an END in itself, It is a point of arrival, it is a construction that aims to be a valuable originality.
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Cubist images from a thousand years ago!!!
The Bernward Column is a bronze work made in 1020 for St. Michael’s Church in Hildesheim, Germany, and considered a masterpiece. We see a fragment of the column where Christ performs the miracle of the wedding in Canaan, where there is a play of perspectives; what we see from above is also shown from the…
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The disastrous consequences of the Renaissance on the architectural development of the Gothic
The disastrous consequences of the Renaissance on the architectural development of the Gothic..Is this a breakthrough??
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General Chronology of the Renaissance:
The Renaissance, as a historical and cultural period, spanned approximately the 14th to the 16th century, connecting the Middle Ages with the Modern Age in Europe. (*) 14th Century: Beginning of the Renaissance in only some areas of Italy, with a focus on the recovery of classical culture, a product of the wave of Greeks…