No Name For Art Carnival #3
June 30, 2008
Welcome to the #3 edition of the no name for ART carnival. The sections to this carnival are: museum shows and gallery shows artwork and artist reviews art collecting how art is made other submitted articles on contemporary fine art museum shows | gallery shows Pooch by Oscar Oiwa The Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo presents Oscar Oiwa’s Dreams of a Sleeping World on show till July 6, saying “While moving his base of operations from his native Sao Paulo to Tokyo and then New York, Oscar Oiwa (1965-) has created works exploring all aspects of his urban surroundings. Oiwa... Read more »
5 Steps To Art Appreciation
June 2, 2008
I still remember when I was first invited to an art gallery by my friends and my instinctive reaction was a feeling of apprehension. It was a strange feeling as I have always loved art especially paintings, so why the anxiety. It dawned on me that I was not worried about experiencing the paintings but how to react to them, what to say and how to converse about them so as to not look like a complete moron to my friends. This very unusual problem led me to explore and find a simple and down-to-earth approach to art appreciation. The idea is to demystify the process and make it easy to enjoy art.... Read more »
The Artist’s Mother ~ Haring, Hockney, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Picasso …
May 10, 2008
For this special day, honoring Motherhood, I thought to look at how some artists have depicted their own mother or an archetypal mother. Who’s Mom? The artists’ real mothers are displayed as persons with their own life. She is an individual with a personal life and character as is witnessed by her child, the artist. By painting his/her mother, child - mother relationship is revealed by the fact that the artist paints his mother and how she is depicted. In contrast, the ‘mother and child’ images are simpler and softer. They symbolize the child’s innocence, mother... Read more »
Communication through Visual Art
April 13, 2008
In his article ‘Visual Arts as Communication’, Quentin Engles explains how images give people food for thought. Fine art hold messages in its own language. Art says something to us and helps us see things in different ways. “Most of us are used to regular conversational words that we may use in day-to-day life. We may even take for granted some of the things we say or hear when we have those conversations. With this there are many more sources of information that may be found from another kind of language. The language of images is all around us. In the changing of the seasons,... Read more »
Outsider Art - Is It Really Art? - part 2
February 29, 2008
Continuation of part 1 of the article: Naive and Primitive Artists Dubuffet was working with the mentally ill artists, while “Outsider Art” outside of France was known to be a much more general term. It included not just the psychotic art, but also naive, self-taught, and primitive art as well. On the American scene in the early to mid twentieth century we had Grandma Moses, the renowned folk artist painting such countryside favorites as “This Old Checkered House in Winter” which was the subject of many paintings, one of which was appraised on “Antiques Roadshow”... Read more »
Art’s Impact on Society
February 11, 2008
Art is an extremely private experience, yet, it is meant to be shared with the public. Society, as a whole, examines the art produced and has the right to approve, disapprove, acknowledge, ignore, praise and abuse it. The public or society has not remained constant over the years. In the time of the Renaissance, for example, only a select few were “society.” They commissioned art, were patrons of the arts and their artists. Today, almost anyone can share in the experience of art. They can attempt to create, view and act as a critic. Does art make the world a better place, or is it... Read more »
Who Needs TV When You Can Watch a Painting? -2
January 27, 2008
Continuation of part 1 of the article by : Sometimes a painting really draws you in. Growing up, being fascinated by the Civil War and looking at illustrated histories of it, there was always a specialness to the naval battle scenes. I could spend hours looking at the pictures and playing the scene in my head, famous scenes such as the Monitor and the Merrimack. I could see the smoke, hear the distant resounding shots of the guns, the splashes of the missed shells, the crackle of the grapeshot, and the orders of the officers on both sides, sometimes within earshot as a maniacal maneuver such as... Read more »
