Category: Art Theory
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Re[ve]alism
“Art reveals truth. Great art reveals great truth in a great way.” This is the concept I’m mulling over right now… is the role of art to reveal (make known, uncover, display) truth? Think about… Portraiture: reveals truth about who a person is Landscape: reveals truth about the beauty of nature Abstraction / abstract expressionism:…
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It just goes to show
I’ve been thinking about perspective, and about how we build a horizontal and vertical world, full of crisp 90° angles. But then we live in a diagonal world, where every carefully laid set of parallel lines converges towards the horizon. It just goes to show… something.
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These Three Remain
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” -1 Cor 13:13 I’ve often heard it said in Christian circles that “real art” (which is notoriously difficult to determine, for what I believe are many good reasons) involves three elements: Truth Beauty Goodness I am unconvinced. I’ve read…
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The proposed “Ticket Taxâ€
This from NPR: Ticket Tax Being Proposed To Help Close D.C. Budget Gap May 05, 2010 – By Stephanie Kaye A new “ticket” tax is being proposed in D.C. It would increase prices for arts and cultural events in the District. The proposal is being circulated by the Fair Budget Coalition, a group of human…