Trying to Work Out the Meaning of Wabi-Sabi
I learned a new word/concept this week: Wabi-sabi, the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection. When I googled it I got a lot of images of interior design, all […]
Category Archives: Artists
Rosenquist’s Mylar Mirrors at the ARoS Modern Art Museum, Denmark
Fun with distorted reflections in Rosenquist’s mirrored mylar at the ARoS Modern Art Museum in Aarhus, Denmark. The lads aren’t quite sure what to make of Rosenquist’s art.“Hey guys, it’s […]
A Collage of Nordic Music Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe
When I was looking up Georgia O’Keeffe in Wikipedia I found this painting called Blue and Green Music that she painted sometime in-between 1919 and 1921. from Wikipedia: Painted in her New […]
Creating Art with Stacks of Clothing
The Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen has been working with articles of clothing in various ways to create art. An exhibition at the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark. […]
Cruz-Diez’s Kinetic Colours at Centro Niemeyer in Aviles, Spain
A Venezuelan artist born in 1923, Carlos Cruz-Diez became involved with the ‘Op Art’ movement of the 60s, moving on to ‘kinetic’ installations of Op Art in the 70s. The ‘Op Art’ […]
Holland is ‘Vincent van Gogh’
Holland has many artists but probably the best known is Vincent van Gogh. “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” ~ Vincent van Gogh More of the Daily Post’s […]
WPC: Mondrian’s Painted Grids and the ‘De Stijl’ Movement
Piet Mondrian was a Dutch artist best known for his paintings of black grids filled with the three primary colours of blue, red and yellow. He was born in a […]
Examining a Purple Smoke Tree in Monet’s Garden From All Angles
Because I’m a bit obsessive about purple smoke trees I managed to photograph this one in Monet’s Garden from all sorts of angles, making it a perfect choice for this challenge. […]
One Four Challenge, August Week 1: Monet’s Waterlilies
This month means more Monet! For this review month I thought I try finishing off some of the last three month’s experiments, starting with a Monet’s waterlily… The water even […]
One Four Challenge July Week 3: Etretat on the Alabaster Coast
My attempts to duplicate Monet’s colours on the computer were a disaster! 1. Most of the standard techniques for changing colours in Photoshop (Colour Balance, Hue/Saturation, Photo Filter) merely added […]
