Gateway ZT Tosha
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Pencilbrains Gallery New Haven
Pencilbrains Gallery Abstract art is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use shapes, colors, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect. Wassily Kandinsky. Strictly speaking, the word abstract means to separate or withdraw something from something else. ZT Tosha Paintings: All of ZT Tosha’s …
Ancient Tools for a New Way of Seeing
David Rabinowitch, “Untitled (Périgord Construction of Vision)” (2012), wax, crayon, graphite, oil, and oil based ink on paper, 26 x 26 inches (all images courtesy Peter Blum Gallery) David Rabinowitch was born in Toronto, but since 1972 he has been living in New York, where his artistic output, mostly sculpture and works on paper, has …
An Art Made of Trust, Vulnerability and Connection | Marina Abramović |
Marina Abramović’s art pushes the boundary between audience and artist in pursuit of heightened consciousness and personal change. In her groundbreaking 2010 work, “The Artist Is Present,” she simply sat in a chair facing her audience, for eight hours a day … with powerfully moving results. Her boldest work may still be yet to come …
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The Romans did not believe that to have a copy of an artwork was of any less value that to have the original
The Romans did not believe, as we do today, that to have a copy of an artwork was of any less value that to have the original. Greek art certainly had a powerful influence on Roman practice; the Roman poet Horace famously said that “Greece, the captive, took her savage victor captive,” meaning that Rome …
Perspective Theory – Filippo Brunelleschi
Linear perspective, a system of creating an illusion of depth on a flat surface. All parallel lines (orthogonals) in a painting or drawing using this system converge in a single vanishing point on the composition’s horizon line. Filippo Brunelleschi (Italian: [fiˈlippo brunelˈleski]; 1377 – April 15, 1446) was an Italian designer and a key figure …
