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 images of simplicity combined with a lot of irregular texture … Continue reading Trying to Work Out the Meaning of Wabi-Sabi
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 interactive, get with it!”Al tried and created this interesting piece … Continue reading Rosenquist’s Mylar Mirrors at the ARoS Modern Art Museum, Denmark
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 York years upon the idea that music could be translated … Continue reading A Collage of Nordic Music Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe
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. Stacks of shirts. Overview of a pile of shirts that … Continue reading Creating Art with Stacks of Clothing
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’ Movement, for those of you who weren’t around in the … Continue reading Cruz-Diez’s Kinetic Colours at Centro Niemeyer in Aviles, Spain
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 Weekly Photo Challenge: Life Imitates Art. Continue reading Holland is ‘Vincent van Gogh’
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 time of great excitement in the art world and his … Continue reading WPC: Mondrian’s Painted Grids and the ‘De Stijl’ Movement
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. What I learned, after sorting through the photos, is that on a … Continue reading Examining a Purple Smoke Tree in Monet’s Garden From All Angles
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 looks impressionistic in my original photo of a waterlily in Monet’s garden pond. Painting the waterlily in Psykopaint. The finished painting. Never one to leave well enough alone, I also had to run the painting through Pixlromatic. Then I thought I should run it through a couple of different watercolour apps such as Sketch Guru… Or Waterlogue… May as well go for the old French postcard look as well. I have a whole bunch more ‘Monet’ options … Continue reading One Four Challenge, August Week 1: Monet’s Waterlilies
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 an unattractive colour cast to the ‘painting’. 2. Using ‘Replace … Continue reading One Four Challenge July Week 3: Etretat on the Alabaster Coast
