Tag Archive | "Artistic Expression"
What I Learned from John Maeda, I Used on the Beach
Complexity assaults me because I’m not close enough to what’s important or it overwhelms me because I haven’t stepped back far enough. John Maeda wrote the laws of Simplicity a few years ago and I pressed a few into service on a trip to Bulls Island, SC.
Continue reading...Finger Painting Is My Instrument of Survival
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
In this video interview, Milton Glaser offers a definition of art, or at least what art isn't. “If it moves you to attentiveness it is art, if it doesn't it's something else.” - Milton
Continue reading...Taking with Creative Director – Adam Cohen
Monday, March 15, 2010
Meet Adam. He's determined to unite talent - his own. A first-class writer and a first-rate illustrator equals a great cartoonist. A great cartoonist makes an exceptional ad man, screen writer and film director. Listen to his insightful thoughts about creativity.
Continue reading...The Modern Kitsch Experience
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Defining art has never been all that controversial; it’s the "good" part that carries the debate. New tools have made discernment tougher still. It’s not all that hard to make the work appear good through imitation or mechanized craft and then assert its worthiness.
Continue reading...Technology + Art :: Love, Hate & Ansel Adams
Monday, March 1, 2010
Film delayed gratification long enough so those behind a camera needed to see the image in their minds eye and exhaust possibilities to make it happen at the moment of exposure. Technology has changed that – call it postvisualization.
Continue reading...How Long Did That Take You?
Monday, February 22, 2010
Artists are asked relentlessly, “How long did that take you.” The response goes – more or less polite - something like, “why do you ask?” It shouldn’t, but time does matter, somehow, in some way – it has a peculiar relationship with creativity or vice-versa. In numerous ways time doesn’t respond the way you’d expect when creativity is involved.
Continue reading...Is Your Best Work Ahead of You?
Monday, February 1, 2010
It’s important that we know our best work is yet to be produced. Our best is what is in us now, not what we – or others - admire about the past. Jazz Composer, Maria Schneider, has a story to illustrate this point.
Continue reading...So Where is the Democratized Artistic Genius?
Monday, January 18, 2010
Evidently neither technology nor egalitarianism does anything to stir the soul, yet, Rauschenberg erases beauty and inspires – or provokes - the heart of an artistic movement. Watch a short video interview with Rauschenberg about his erasure of a de Kooning masterpiece.
Continue reading...Adam’s Eye – Learn from 23 Innocent Images
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Since picking up a camera 35 years ago, I was framing images to move viewers. A desire to convince them I was good at what I did remains an underlying yet significant motivation. What's more, I’ll make the claim that most spectators do so in judgment before considering the content’s honesty – that is – if it exists. I invite you to look at these 23 images differently. There is an integrity and openness in this group photographs that is unique and worth examining. They were taken by a photographer who does not care what you think; he’s not spinning it for his reviewers. He doesn’t care about anything except how the frame and capture makes him feel and what catches his eye. His viewpoint embodies freshness. He’s a chaste artist.
Continue reading...The Space Between Your Notes
Thursday, December 17, 2009
“Music is the space between the notes” – Claude Debussy I thought of this quote before discovering someone much more intelligent said it first. I was at a show listening to bluegrass virtuosos play so fast that it was hard to discern a space between notes. It made me realize that there was only one interpretation possible. There were no spaces for me to think or feel anything but the energy of their content.
Continue reading...Video Interviews with Creative Professionals
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Monday, March 22, 2010
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