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Living Through the ArtsCanadian universities today: center of knowledge or cash machines?
A post in the memory of Aaron Schwartz In the 15th and 16th centuries, the great Florentine de Medici family ruled “successfully” by making sure that knowledge remained in the hands of a few chosen ones, hence making the Republic of Florence, at that time, a very...
The true origins of abstraction
Art Trip New York : The true origins of abstraction MoMa’s exhibit in New York, Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925; how a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art, is extraordinary. As per the Museum’s website, the show traces the “development of abstraction as it moved through a...
Studio Colombia 4 Conclusion
Be aware! by Gerry Giuliani For me, art is an invitation to engage with the present moment. Whether I am an artist or the beholder/appreciator of art, I am being asked to connect with what I see, and to how that has impact on me. Over the past 10 days our perspective...
Studio Colombia 3 The Vanishing Points
The Vanishing Points / A painting workshop in South America Not to confuse with the View-Point when both can become one. As written in the earlier post, the view-point is your final destination on your drawing, your journey’s end. We know that it is there, far away,...
Studio Colombia 2 The View Point
Perspective Drawing Workshop in Colombia > The View-Point The view-point is where you look at. It is always situated on the Horizon Line. It never leaves it; it is glued there. When the horizon line goes up, as well the view-point. The same applies when the...
Studio Colombia I The Horizon Line
The Horizon Line :God’s invention or Giotto’s The very first line which lands on a canvas for a landscape painting is undoubtedly the horizon line, the line demarcating the earth/ocean from the sky. Then, the artist determines the time of the day, puts a few trees...
Understanding perspective; a drawing workshop in Colombia
Studio Colombia: Understanding Perspective In a few days, Studio Colombia: Understanding Perspective. Let’s begin with a quote from the introduction of Panofsky’s formidable essay Perspective as Symbolic Form: “Does this mean that the experience of space [perspective...
Art History in the Making
It is History that chooses. When I started teaching art history in the early 80s, Conceptual Art was waning and painting was flourishing with Neo Expressionism and Transvanguardia. Finally, the good old painting was back. The seducing viscosity of the paint, large...
When art opens up a new world
New York Art Trip (March 7 -10, 2013) In our last post, we said that novelty in art and friendship can lead to enriching experiences by providing us with new visions of our world. Since the world is in constant evolution, traditional ways in art can easily become...
Art, friends, new visions
Art and friendship get better when nurtured with newness Last week, I attended a great theatre evening at a friend’s house, in French “théâtre d'appartement”. For one hour and a half, 30 guests sitting in a semi-circle around the living room, watched three Belgian and...
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