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Do you need the sunrise at Patagonia in order to make a superior landscape picture? Do you need precious materials to make an artwork?
Probably not. A piece of driftwood can be transformed into an art. So does the sunset in your hometown.
Do you need complicated techniques such as HDR, tone re-mapping and multiple layer blending to make a good image?
Probably not. A simple stacking of two pieces of wood can make an artwork.
So does your simple point & shoot camera and SOOC image!
This is the driftwood art made by anonymous artist in Garry Point Park.
Happy sunny Sunday!
A machine at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art that created machine-made art, in blobs (that's kind of what they were) on a conveyor belt. Art and expression come in all forms and fashions. Someone liked this enough to put it on center display in a world famous museum. I'm not really sure what they did with the final product(s).Thinking back, it would have been nice to know if they sold the product, and if so, for how much?
okay, I quite like this as I think it could almost been a screen print?!?
i don't think anyone agrees with me....but I really like this blue colour!!
What is art?
Is it something priced in millions of dollars and displayed only in museum and gallery? Is it something you can never find in a craft market or ordinary places?
Is it the plain reflection or capture of reality? Or an illusionary vision of an artist?
Reflection and my favorite blurry person seen at Minoru Cultural Centre Richmond.
Have a great Sunday!
Oscar's Art Books on Broadway is closing down. I have visited the bookstore for many years and I made purchases of lots of arts and photography books there.
I had dream before that one day I might have a large format photography book published and sold in Oscar. But this is not going to happen anyway even when Oscar continues on the business! :o(
The owner said to Georgia Straight, the local newspaper that it was internet the prime reason to kill their business.
I will miss this nice independent art bookstore.
I visited Oscar last week and took a shot of the wall with artwork display. Oscar has local artist's work displayed in the store.
Happy Tuesday!
What is art?
Can you make something such as found objects into an artwork? Just like Duchamp put the signature on a toilet bowl and that becomes a piece of art. The toilet bowl is now sitting in the art gallery and not in the washroom any more! :o)
This is not art but just a result of my reflection on art in Granville Island. Granville Island is a place that is packed with art galleries and shops.
Have a great evening!
Granville Island Vancouver. July 2017.
Fuji X-T1 camera
Fuji XF 23mm F1.4
Velvia Film Simulation
Everyone agrees that even though too much sport is barely enough*, too much art generates a zombie state.
On the floor outside Cézanne to Giacometti is this assemblage of glass. In my state of saturation I didn't look for a label affirming that this was an art installation, and not just an artefact of the opening afterparty last week.
I'm reminded of the two lads who "installed" a pair of spectacles on the floor of San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art. For the brief time that the owner's vision was impaired, the spectacles became celebrities. Is that what's happened here? What's art anyway? Did Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray deceive us with their found objects?
Enough! I'm in need of sugar, caffeine…fresh air and good company. Which way to the exit?
*I think that's what HG Nelson said.
The photo's a hair blurry. I actually have a crisper, clearer version done with a wider depth of field, but while it comes out sharper, it doesn't have this nice painterly (and totally accidental) feel to it. So, damn clarity! Clarity can have a nice warm glass of Shut The Hell Up, is what it can do. Booyah, Clarity! In yo' face!
This is all for my art.
Ahem.
Well, okay, no. I don't actually consider what I do to be art.
I got into some discussions of what defines art on Twitter recently ( www.twitter.com/ChuckWendig ), and you can find my rambling thoughts on the subject at my site, www.terribleminds.com/minds_ramblings.htm -- or, you can just gaze into my watercolor orb, and ponder the mystery all by your lonesome.
When I read the history of photographic art and study the works of great masters, I notice that there are certain specific types of themes or subjects that are selected by the artists.
For example, American landscape by Ansel Adams. Portraits of people in social margins by Diane Arbus. Street photography by Cartier-Bresson. Still life and nudes by Edward Weston. Cityscape by Eugene Agtet. Flower photography by Blossfeldt. Self portrait by Cindy Sherman.
Surprisingly I did not find any bird photography adopted by artists in history book. Bird photography is followed by millions of amateur photographers but there is not even one masterpiece recorded in the history of photography art or one artist specialized on this?
Shadows are another typical amateur subject. May be the artists, the historians or art curators think that these subjects cannot have high philosophical meanings or artistic style? :o)
This was taken at Lansdowne Shopping Mall Richmond.
Have a great Sunday!
There is the theory stating that arts is originated from games.
How does something originally intended for fun and play becomes an artwork?
This is my shadow play taken in Steveston today. It is not an art of course. However my philosophy addicted mind have this interesting question pops up again.
Have a great phlosophical weekend!
Dear mates, I highly encourage to read the whole comments but especially my comment added here below today Saturday, February 13 2021 (it is the 7th one from top).
Dear Artists Friends, we had a kinda diatribe in a Flickr group trying to advise the quality of the uploads posted in there had highly decreased, abrupting & banalizing the concept for which the group was born. You know us, we speak very rarelly but,if we do, it's in the aim of giving our little contribution to improve things.
Here, for your attention & up for your consideration you'll find the thread we wrote. Enjoy &, eventually, have fun in reading what was answered to us. www.flickr.com/groups/1531500@N24/discuss/72157717700862926/
Eventually, this situation could be mapped & observed in a huge number of other groups, so, it's not our intention to make a constructive critique only about this group which professes to be an online art museum: the same could be written in fact about many others, although, will you notice that it's, at least, peculiar, the ambition to host art & art in a Net museum, on Flickr...
I personally think that, for a true artist, it's becoming very tough, up to frustration to post in certain groups where art is more & more frequently flanked by nearby mediocre or even outragious trash images...
Photo description: WonderAlice, artist & photographer, former assistant of White Angel, part of the crew of Vintage Workshop®, expressing visually her disagreement. We think it's an ironic way to introduce this serious problem with a little bit of hilarity & fairplay ;-)
Ref. DSCF4201 Ph. by #WhiteANGEL . All rights reserved.
Empty the mind.
Empty the soul.
Empty your consciousness.
Empty your subconsciousness.
Empty these words.
Or even empty the emptiness.
This is hall way in Richmond Buddhist Temple.
Have a great SUNday!
Fuji X-T1 camera
Fuji XF 60mm F2.4R lens
色即是空，空即是色。- 《般若波羅蜜多心經》
We the children of Jesus' Mom need to listen to Her monthly words to seers. That communication is found on the Medjugorje Web at
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Message of March 25, 2008
“Dear children! I call you to work on your personal conversion. You are still far from meeting with God in your heart. Therefore, spend all the more time in prayer and Adoration of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, for Him to change you and to put into your hearts a living faith and a desire for eternal life. Everything is passing, little children, only God is not passing. I am with you and I encourage you with love. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
_____________
EXPLORE # 433 on Wednesday, March 26, 2008, within 134 minutes of uploading; # 474 on Thursday, March 27, 2008
What is art? What is classified as vandalism? Is graffiti a kind of public art or vandalism on private property?
There is huge debate on this. And do you have any opinion on this?
This is graffiti seen in a Gastown back alley.
This is one of the shots on my photo walk with Jacky’s group in Gastown.
Happy Friday and great weekend!
Think Flickr!! Think!!!!
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Internet censorship is control or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on the Internet. The legal issues are similar to offline censorship.
The users make you! - don’t forget that flickr!
And with advance to REALITY COPY there’s certainly no way of changing this perception only enforcing it, nothing in reality is good enough for “REALITY COPY” that is just another paradox that is not futuristic.
We might be still skeptical about the arrival of REALITY COPY, but its only before its sold at the supermarkets.
What would happen after “Reality Copy” when the progress of all possible levels of true “reality copy” (in technical sense, not psychologically-philosophical) are achieved. The reality hence is copied and sealed.
Technology won’t stop there… one wonders. What is next.
In political sense when reality in representation is something embraced by conservative social power than with “reality copy” the conservative power is the dominating from the social point of view having new level of reality and it’s copy to be controlled.
*seems like the only possibly alternative to REALITY COPY could be ultra radical Invisibility)
In principle the artist aims to deform the reality subjectively to create not the “reality copy” lacking such skills but to convey the artistic poetic goal of expressing whatever given artist wants to express.
In a matter of “reality copy” what is left for the artist to argue with and deform… to question and test… Nothing really changes socially except for more pressure applied to the issue of dealing with self-image and tools to “sell” When a person changes the image the higher the technology the more transformed is the final product.
The progress of mental growth is just as conservative as control on the “visual image of reality” and its copy.
The ongoing technological progress is irreversible as it carries percent of good with bad,
It is common knowledge how for instance internet is benefit and at the same time does damage. A person who knows about the addiction and suffers would acquire the knowledge and hope from the place the person suffers the internet of course.
Same thing is with photography and video. Reality copy would add more psychological problems to the present but create more visual attraction of true-life experience with whatever could be rediscovered in Lifecopy style. Probably is benefits pornography since it will continue same as consumption of food. The basic things… Consumerism benefits since it is super-trained for “instant reach” affect and will commercially exploit the “reality copy” to sell more of “reality copy” gadgets the phones, screens, etc.
New generation of people will repeat the cycle in new technological means of having “reality copy” as nothing new but similar to any visual information currently available.
The creative people are the ones BEHIND the time it seems in a matter of “reality copy” and being unable to have anything is an alternative.
The Invisible alternative is the ONLY ONE to question “reality copy”
That is the power of UNKNOWN.
Techno progress can deal in “reality” bringing higher resolution to the fore to sell new generation of phones and gadgets.
But it really doesn’t change the philosophical issue of questions asked by philosophers, what is life, what is art, why do we live. Questions remain unanswered when techno progress veils those questions with the promise that higher technology would bring the end to all unanswered questions and answer them for people.
So far the techno advance puts the artistic, literary and philosophical field out of business. As when people get the toys (gadgets) and the playground (the podium of internet) the art is irrelevant and completely disconnected from the social phenomenon of self-representation. Art is not interested to question something with no philosophical substance to it.
The commercial art is willing to supply more stuff for consumerism. If its reality-copy than someone empowered by financial wealth (born rich) would come up with more decorative solutions that could serve REALITY COPY in needed fashion, add more details to the “reality set” to those who can afford it.
Same way it is now when people with means live with more things.
“Reality Copy” of people without means would look just as it is in reality, gray and unexciting. To help people without means the software would offer “decoration” solutions to add the faux details able to transform the surroundings to less depressing. It would enter the person into “life copy” of vacation at Caribbean resorts… etc.
What in such situation could be philosophically questioned, if nothing changed in human morality, but techno advance manage to involve people into self-entertainment to such degree that a person is no longer interested to read books about other people or watch movies and hear news. Self-promotion is the ongoing and time-consuming thing. One has to research the “popular” topics.
As to participating in reality activities, there’s the issue of not having time for anything that doesn’t deal with self-promotion and earning a living.
ART commerce is growing commercially going Industrial since supplying consumer goods is always rewarding in sales. On the other hand this and techno revolution reduces interest of writers and philosophers to dig in depths where there is no depth. It makes such people disengaged with the process. When there are no critical voices to the established situation or some few art critics pretend to do what is expected of them – know about current situation not only on the art scene but at large - socially, and have strong voice against the trends that contribute to the lowering of culture. There’s no more liberal freedom since nobody reads the newspapers. Even if the working critics were principal enough to write articles and books they know their voice would not be heard. They are not vociferous about anything at all because there’s a concept of supporting and art endavour since art is in decline and anything that relates to art needs their support.
There are no voices to oppose the current situation for many reasons such as no younger people would be interested in such undertaking also for many reasons of being disoriented in expectation of techno changes or living their me-life.
The young ones are the invisibility movers, every day someone who is young, information and internet savvy adds the invisibility statement to their online identity. I saw it on tumblr and Iheart. (samples year web address – source)
Art consumer goods sell and make the seller get the goods since sale is the rule.
Art critics silently agree and actually it seems if they even try to disagree there is nothing in art that presently shows any direction against the established art situation.
There isn’t anything not saying a serious claim to deny aesthetic values of the art present and past, to turn away from any influence and history by the fashion avant-garde to question than resuscitate (bring back from death) art that lost vitality and practically is a dead art of dominating taste in an authoritarian culture and conformity.
Bring new blood to reinvent the art into weapon against the outlived old and positioning itself as direct opposition AGAINST art that represents culture of the present time.
Culture of consumerism that turned into visual consumerism with the help of internet is hard to oppose and challenge in any attempt of making bid public art spectacle, won’t challenge any concept but serve certain need for entertainment.
Invisible art of Paul Jaisini stands against all that is dominating and culturally regressive in the present, false visual multiplicity that imply democracy and absence of segregation in visual sphere, all inclusiveness.
On so many levels Paul Jaisini brings knowledge of how the present condition reflect on a mind. (non-linear thinking, information processing, constant analysis is the advanced state of high analytical creative mind /osd, adad is the side effect but there are more worse side effects) Shows the burst to create in manifestation of genius mind (can do any task without training) but unable to maintain the creative process as wholesome, bored with the immediate results. Invisibility is theoretical stability and result of high impact activity that gives fast result of creativity and genius realized in art. Then instability in the fact of the created art un--preserved and lost, destroyed.
On a lower level of people who start building some blog with enthusiasm dedicating time, research than abandoning it to become digital graveyard demonstrates inability to continue and search for new. Inability to face what yesterday seemed interesting and capture someone’s mind to give the creative boost.
(fast life, no sleep, high tech knowledge, constant search for new, unsatisfied… new is old – altogether supports “CONSUMERISM” when buying is haul more than physically needed, quantity is the need for new.
Invisible art as a concept seem to attract wide public and elite in such diametrically opposed combination, of people without high aesthetics in mind or the complete opposite illuminati-culturati. People with average or below average taste and aesthetic requirements are as interested and supportive as the elite. When it comes to someone in the middle- another phenomena, quite often those who are educated and intelligent take a stand against even one mention of the art being possibly somehow invisible.
These people respond very well and willing to agree with the concept as Invisible art is brought to them by mass media. In the beginning I was using internet to send out essays and saw the proof that as avant-garde wanted to reach people who never acquired artistically developed taste the invisible art was and now is more than ever suits their taste even to degree of obsession.
That’s adds insult to injury when nobody even pay attention and there’s nothing to offer as the alternative.
They want something tangible as the alternative, the grown philosophy to brew in the minds of people and artists as the sign of time.
The invisibility is the idea that has the power to antagonize the “reality copy” but not in a sense that is widely used in the present time. To express social isolation in case of the teens as seen on tumblr. (examples and variations of Invisibility trend in primitive pictures shared every day in such huge quantities no art publication ever knew, teens and pre-teens are those with passion among the rest of us, when they spread the word it goes far, same as the early internet time, when the word would go far distances to large number of people)
Historically known of the episodes when many artists tried to create the so-called invis art but it really didn’t involve much creativity except for the concepts they came up with, but in reality it involved the reduction of visual means and performance art when the audience came up with more ideas acting around the non-existent artwork than the artist.
Personally I discovered high interactive value of the “PRESUMED” invisible painting when I was getting a lot of responses with very interesting commentaries from the people who actually insisted I was sending them info about the invisible artworks. I never made any claims when sending written essays. People decided for me and probably this is the best way for the interactive dialogue to let people decide.
The only known versions of invisible artworks would be not something that can turn into a philosophical school of thought but random reductions of visual means of various artists. It all came to same MOA that involved frames etc., not the process of creativity or life long creativity that would show how such artistic philosophy develops and what various periods of the artist’s life produce by his belief in his artistic style.
The known precedents of exhibiting so-called invisible art were always random statements that never continued to develop in a distinct style.
What one usually expects is a blank canvas, a picture with some written ideas which is more a topography art, a picture that is in a wrapping of covered up and is a found object art. The only known artists who continued wrapping is Christo but his art is not considered invisible even though he hides or attempts to hide what is inside the wrapping….
Recently same as in more distant periods in time many artists are trying to reduce their visual means. There’s a difference though. In previous times artists ventured into reduction of visual means with more ease. The artworks from older times with reduced visual means had much less labor and look less worked on.
Now the reduction of visual means is something that doesn’t fall under the artistic philosophy when an artists trying to prevent an overkill of the visual imagery.
If Rothko worked on his abstract painting laboriously than in current standards his work would be considered not sale’s worthy. Now to be sale-worthy the abstraction is worked to show a lot of workmanship. Surely Rothko doesn’t want anyone to see a lot of workmanship quite the opposite, he wanted his paintings to look fresh and not overdone. And in current standards he would have to toil on every dot in his painting to perfect it.
Today’s abstract paintings look like very hard-worked on simulations of surfaces that look like some textures (varieties of plain or distressed surfaces /stone and whatever is the decorative surfaces of abstracts, patterns that are used in interior design.
Overworked, machine-like is expensive looking enough to sell in the gallery but it creates a certain amount of fatigue in time. The commerce knows about it, the fatigue would bring the art buyer to buy more to add some new life to the art collection ed infinitum.
Art commerce wants more art collectors in the times when art is selling and makes money and should be called what it is – decorative luxury items.
Art or luxury decorative items was always meant for people with wealth and they always wanted to get their money worth.
When abstract painting is done in a manner to be worthy of selling price it is not creativity of conceptual thought and has no abstracted meaning. The craft of simulating surfaces is widely known and is used in interior design. When it is unique that no other craftsman can repeat it is recognized nearly as jewelry and rag-making, etc. All the items that cost money due to the high workmanship and hours, months and sometimes years of creation. Same way was built the historical hand-made furniture. Same way the current abstract decorations will hold in time. It is made for someone as rich as royalties but it doesn’t mean that it has anything to do with artistic creativity, the most mysterious and unexplained human phenomenon.
So anyone who is interested to earn money as a maker of such luxury items and be able to place them in the store for sale – the art gallery, can come up with own recipe for surface replica and start working will find a paying job on the art scene nowadays...
It doesn’t involve questioning of morals, times and life. It involves many hours of working and ability to produce varieties of the same surfaces in good taste. Instead of questioning human spirituality, or questioning art means that someone considers irrelevant and outdated, not for any breakthrough to create something revolutionary new.
And with advance to REALITY COPY there’s certainly no way of changing this perception only enforcing it, nothing in reality is good enough for “REALITY COPY” that is just another paradox that is not futuristic.
We might be still skeptical about the arrival of REALITY COPY, but its only before its sold at the supermarkets.
What would happen after “Reality Copy” when the progress of all possible levels of true “reality copy” (in technical sense, not psychologically-philosophical) are achieved. The reality hence is copied and sealed.
Technology won’t stop there… one wonders. What is next.
In political sense when reality in representation is something embraced by conservative social power than with “reality copy” the conservative power is the dominating from the social point of view having new level of reality and it’s copy to be controlled.
*seems like the only possibly alternative to REALITY COPY could be ultra radical Invisibility)
In principle the artist aims to deform the reality subjectively to create not the “reality copy” lacking such skills but to convey the artistic poetic goal of expressing whatever given artist wants to express.
In a matter of “reality copy” what is left for the artist to argue with and deform… to question and test… Nothing really changes socially except for more pressure applied to the issue of dealing with self-image and tools to “sell” When a person changes the image the higher the technology the more transformed is the final product.
The progress of mental growth is just as conservative as control on the “visual image of reality” and its copy.
The ongoing technological progress is irreversible as it carries percent of good with bad,
It is common knowledge how for instance internet is benefit and at the same time does damage. A person who knows about the addiction and suffers would acquire the knowledge and hope from the place the person suffers the internet of course.
Same thing is with photography and video. Reality copy would add more psychological problems to the present but create more visual attraction of true-life experience with whatever could be rediscovered in Lifecopy style. Probably is benefits pornography since it will continue same as consumption of food. The basic things… Consumerism benefits since it is super-trained for “instant reach” affect and will commercially exploit the “reality copy” to sell more of “reality copy” gadgets the phones, screens, etc.
New generation of people will repeat the cycle in new technological means of having “reality copy” as nothing new but similar to any visual information currently available.
The creative people are the ones BEHIND the time it seems in a matter of “reality copy” and being unable to have anything is an alternative.
The Invisible alternative is the ONLY ONE to question “reality copy”
That is the power of UNKNOWN.
Techno progress can deal in “reality” bringing higher resolution to the fore to sell new generation of phones and gadgets.
But it really doesn’t change the philosophical issue of questions asked by philosophers, what is life, what is art, why do we live. Questions remain unanswered when techno progress veils those questions with the promise that higher technology would bring the end to all unanswered questions and answer them for people.
So far the techno advance puts the artistic, literary and philosophical field out of business. As when people get the toys (gadgets) and the playground (the podium of internet) the art is irrelevant and completely disconnected from the social phenomenon of self-representation. Art is not interested to question something with no philosophical substance to it.
The commercial art is willing to supply more stuff for consumerism. If its reality-copy than someone empowered by financial wealth (born rich) would come up with more decorative solutions that could serve REALITY COPY in needed fashion, add more details to the “reality set” to those who can afford it.
Same way it is now when people with means live with more things.
“Reality Copy” of people without means would look just as it is in reality, gray and unexciting. To help people without means the software would offer “decoration” solutions to add the faux details able to transform the surroundings to less depressing. It would enter the person into “life copy” of vacation at Caribbean resorts… etc.
What in such situation could be philosophically questioned, if nothing changed in human morality, but techno advance manage to involve people into self-entertainment to such degree that a person is no longer interested to read books about other people or watch movies and hear news. Self-promotion is the ongoing and time-consuming thing. One has to research the “popular” topics.
As to participating in reality activities, there’s the issue of not having time for anything that doesn’t deal with self-promotion and earning a living.
ART commerce is growing commercially going Industrial since supplying consumer goods is always rewarding in sales. On the other hand this and techno revolution reduces interest of writers and philosophers to dig in depths where there is no depth. It makes such people disengaged with the process. When there are no critical voices to the established situation or some few art critics pretend to do what is expected of them – know about current situation not only on the art scene but at large - socially, and have strong voice against the trends that contribute to the lowering of culture. There’s no more liberal freedom since nobody reads the newspapers. Even if the working critics were principal enough to write articles and books they know their voice would not be heard. They are not vociferous about anything at all because there’s a concept of supporting and art endavour since art is in decline and anything that relates to art needs their support.
There are no voices to oppose the current situation for many reasons such as no younger people would be interested in such undertaking also for many reasons of being disoriented in expectation of techno changes or living their me-life.
The young ones are the invisibility movers, every day someone who is young, information and internet savvy adds the invisibility statement to their online identity. I saw it on tumblr and Iheart. (samples year web address – source)
Art consumer goods sell and make the seller get the goods since sale is the rule.
Art critics silently agree and actually it seems if they even try to disagree there is nothing in art that presently shows any direction against the established art situation.
There isn’t anything not saying a serious claim to deny aesthetic values of the art present and past, to turn away from any influence and history by the fashion avant-garde to question than resuscitate (bring back from death) art that lost vitality and practically is a dead art of dominating taste in an authoritarian culture and conformity.
Bring new blood to reinvent the art into weapon against the outlived old and positioning itself as direct opposition AGAINST art that represents culture of the present time.
Culture of consumerism that turned into visual consumerism with the help of internet is hard to oppose and challenge in any attempt of making bid public art spectacle, won’t challenge any concept but serve certain need for entertainment.
Invisible art of Paul Jaisini stands against all that is dominating and culturally regressive in the present, false visual multiplicity that imply democracy and absence of segregation in visual sphere, all inclusiveness.
On so many levels Paul Jaisini brings knowledge of how the present condition reflect on a mind. (non-linear thinking, information processing, constant analysis is the advanced state of high analytical creative mind /osd, adad is the side effect but there are more worse side effects) Shows the burst to create in manifestation of genius mind (can do any task without training) but unable to maintain the creative process as wholesome, bored with the immediate results. Invisibility is theoretical stability and result of high impact activity that gives fast result of creativity and genius realized in art. Then instability in the fact of the created art un--preserved and lost, destroyed.
On a lower level of people who start building some blog with enthusiasm dedicating time, research than abandoning it to become digital graveyard demonstrates inability to continue and search for new. Inability to face what yesterday seemed interesting and capture someone’s mind to give the creative boost.
(fast life, no sleep, high tech knowledge, constant search for new, unsatisfied… new is old – altogether supports “CONSUMERISM” when buying is haul more than physically needed, quantity is the need for new.
Invisible art as a concept seem to attract wide public and elite in such diametrically opposed combination, of people without high aesthetics in mind or the complete opposite illuminati-culturati. People with average or below average taste and aesthetic requirements are as interested and supportive as the elite. When it comes to someone in the middle- another phenomena, quite often those who are educated and intelligent take a stand against even one mention of the art being possibly somehow invisible.
These people respond very well and willing to agree with the concept as Invisible art is brought to them by mass media. In the beginning I was using internet to send out essays and saw the proof that as avant-garde wanted to reach people who never acquired artistically developed taste the invisible art was and now is more than ever suits their taste even to degree of obsession.
That’s adds insult to injury when nobody even pay attention and there’s nothing to offer as the alternative.
They want something tangible as the alternative, the grown philosophy to brew in the minds of people and artists as the sign of time.
The invisibility is the idea that has the power to antagonize the “reality copy” but not in a sense that is widely used in the present time. To express social isolation in case of the teens as seen on tumblr. (examples and variations of Invisibility trend in primitive pictures shared every day in such huge quantities no art publication ever knew, teens and pre-teens are those with passion among the rest of us, when they spread the word it goes far, same as the early internet time, when the word would go far distances to large number of people)
Historically known of the episodes when many artists tried to create the so-called invis art but it really didn’t involve much creativity except for the concepts they came up with, but in reality it involved the reduction of visual means and performance art when the audience came up with more ideas acting around the non-existent artwork than the artist.
Personally I discovered high interactive value of the “PRESUMED” invisible painting when I was getting a lot of responses with very interesting commentaries from the people who actually insisted I was sending them info about the invisible artworks. I never made any claims when sending written essays. People decided for me and probably this is the best way for the interactive dialogue to let people decide.
The only known versions of invisible artworks would be not something that can turn into a philosophical school of thought but random reductions of visual means of various artists. It all came to same MOA that involved frames etc., not the process of creativity or life long creativity that would show how such artistic philosophy develops and what various periods of the artist’s life produce by his belief in his artistic style.
The known precedents of exhibiting so-called invisible art were always random statements that never continued to develop in a distinct style.
What one usually expects is a blank canvas, a picture with some written ideas which is more a topography art, a picture that is in a wrapping of covered up and is a found object art. The only known artists who continued wrapping is Christo but his art is not considered invisible even though he hides or attempts to hide what is inside the wrapping….
Recently same as in more distant periods in time many artists are trying to reduce their visual means. There’s a difference though. In previous times artists ventured into reduction of visual means with more ease. The artworks from older times with reduced visual means had much less labor and look less worked on.
Now the reduction of visual means is something that doesn’t fall under the artistic philosophy when an artists trying to prevent an overkill of the visual imagery.
If Rothko worked on his abstract painting laboriously than in current standards his work would be considered not sale’s worthy. Now to be sale-worthy the abstraction is worked to show a lot of workmanship. Surely Rothko doesn’t want anyone to see a lot of workmanship quite the opposite, he wanted his paintings to look fresh and not overdone. And in current standards he would have to toil on every dot in his painting to perfect it.
Today’s abstract paintings look like very hard-worked on simulations of surfaces that look like some textures (varieties of plain or distressed surfaces /stone and whatever is the decorative surfaces of abstracts, patterns that are used in interior design.
Overworked, machine-like is expensive looking enough to sell in the gallery but it creates a certain amount of fatigue in time. The commerce knows about it, the fatigue would bring the art buyer to buy more to add some new life to the art collection ed infinitum.
Art commerce wants more art collectors in the times when art is selling and makes money and should be called what it is – decorative luxury items.
Art or luxury decorative items was always meant for people with wealth and they always wanted to get their money worth.
When abstract painting is done in a manner to be worthy of selling price it is not creativity of conceptual thought and has no abstracted meaning. The craft of simulating surfaces is widely known and is used in interior design. When it is unique that no other craftsman can repeat it is recognized nearly as jewelry and rag-making, etc. All the items that cost money due to the high workmanship and hours, months and sometimes years of creation. Same way was built the historical hand-made furniture. Same way the current abstract decorations will hold in time. It is made for someone as rich as royalties but it doesn’t mean that it has anything to do with artistic creativity, the most mysterious and unexplained human phenomenon.
So anyone who is interested to earn money as a maker of such luxury items and be able to place them in the store for sale – the art gallery, can come up with own recipe for surface replica and start working will find a paying job on the art scene nowadays...
It doesn’t involve questioning of morals, times and life. It involves many hours of working and ability to produce varieties of the same surfaces in good taste. Instead of questioning human spirituality, or questioning art means that someone considers irrelevant and outdated, not for any breakthrough to create something revolutionary new.
This bike (MV Agusta) was one of two double parked in the lobby at the Musuem Hotel in Wellington New Zealand!! They were actually part of their Art Gallery! The chrome work was amazing, a mirror finish.
5 exp HDR on tripod with cable release +/-1 tonemapped in Photomatix, finished in CS3; with some use of sponge tool, radial blur, and layers and Nikon RAW
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I did not sleep well last night, lol wanted to play today! What is art anyway???? Come on friends get wild and create something fun!!!!!
What is considered to be art?
Can art be reproduced?
Is the reproduced form of an arts piece also considered to be art?
If I tell you the location, equipment and settings used to make a photograph, and then you follow the same conditions to make another photograph. Are they the same?
Is uniqueness the important condition or attribute of an artwork?
Does an artist need to answer these questions before he/she becomes a good artist?
So many questions!! No anwer!
This is Marilyn Monroe I saw in Steveston Richmond.
Fuji X-T1 camera
Fuji 60mm F2.4R macro lens.
Monday morning work day blue.
I am longing the Easter long weekend.
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This is a side note on the picture.
Marcel Duchamp signed an autograph on the ceramic urinal and it became one of his most famous “readymades” artwork “Fountain”.
Can a photographer shoots a daily object with a point & shoot and still being considered as a self-expressive artwork?
Do we need to study arts history and arts theory in order to become a better artist?
Shall we learn more by just asking questions without answering to them?
Many questions, no answers. :o)
Happy Monday and week ahead!
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1) What is a masterpiece?
2) How do you define creativity?
3) What do you feel when creating art?
4) How do you find inspiration?
5) What does art mean to you?
6) Do you have creative blocks?
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art is the great mirror of our time and reality, a perpetual self-reflective dream echoed in space, an ephemeral moment striving to be enveloped in infinity.
it is not about the entity’s shallow display of stylish prettiness and/or technical abilities, but about the impulse igniting its conception, its clear incentive and the fundamental process it follows, and the bare essence that carves it - its catalysis.
no, art is not a scam. it is the conscious voice of our mortal soul. it is its flesh and bones.
I have some pens and pencils.
A moleskine.
And a head full of quotes, lyrics and the like.
Come and see them at quoteskine.tumblr.com
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In this interview, Ben gives answers to the following questions:
1) What is a masterpiece?
2) How do you define creativity?
3) What do you feel when creating art?
4) How do you find inspiration?
5) What does art mean to you?
6) Do you have creative blocks?
Discover Ben's artworks as Paint by Numbers to relax and spend time in a creative and productive way during the lockdown: www.craft-ease.com/collections/ben-heine?ref=35
Watch on Facebook: www.facebook.com/benheineart/videos/879684825791736
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