FINE ART AND GENUNE ART
I had an interesting conversation on Facebook the other day about the struggle we artists tend to go through because of the nature of our work. Nothing to do with having to be sad and crazy to make art (a…
THE IRONY OF DOING WHAT YOU LOVE
Lately I have been listening to and reading a bunch of books on time management, work ethics and just all-around self-fulfilment and motivational literature and a thought crossed my mind yesterday, while thinking about us artists and the work we…
ART IS A MIRROR TO OUR CHARACTER
The spectator is the one who decides what a particular piece of art is all about. Depending on how much we’re educated, what kind of an emotional state we’re in and if we just want to cock around a gallery,…
THE ATTENTIVE SPECTATOR
We use art to find similar souls amongst the masses of people; those who understand beauty and aesthetics in the way we do, those that are sensitive to similar impulses, that laugh at the same jokes and cry to the…
THE SACRED WORD
Today I decided to break off from the series on art theory and philosophy for a message I feel my younger self would have needed to hear, but never really did. We live in a time of ridiculous amounts of…
THE 3 BUILDING BLOCKS OF ART
We continue this series of blogs revolving around the question: “What makes something art?” with a small dissection of what the phenomenon of art actually is. And as we learned in the previous one, it all comes down to these…
WHAT MAKES SOMETHING ART?
The 1960s and 70s; Nixon resigned because of the Watergate scandal, the Vietnam war weighed heavily on people’s minds and souls, America had an oil crisis and a big recession was spreading across most of the western world, all while…
PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION Part III
After yesterday’s blog we have come to the conclusion that a mere word or image does not have any intrinsic meaning accompanying it. As weird and illogical as this might seem, we must never forget that every time we look…
PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION PART II
Continuing yesterday’s blog post about communication, I would like to focus on a crucial point that I see might well be one of the greatest misunderstandings of communication in art — syntax does not equal semantics. But before we dive…
PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION
From colour blindness to hallucinations and psychedelics, perception is a fluid and bewildering phenomenon and the big question for us creatives always is: how much of our vision will actually be grasped by the public. The way communication happens is…