Art and software deceive in the same way.
What is art? Academicians and critics love definitions, but we do not live our lives through the dictionary or abstract thought. Most important ideas have no clear definition: truth, justice, Continue ReadingArt is What Artists Do
“When we tell a story in cinema, we should resort to dialogue only when it’s impossible to do otherwise. I always try first to tell a story in the cinematic Continue ReadingGreatness in Artistic Form
Sitting in my garden, seeing all the different shades of green, reminds me of the poverty of language to describe our feelings. The green of the evergreen trees is not Continue ReadingHow Green is Your Garden?
Seeing this in a museum what would you think it was? Seeing it while driving, you would immediately watch for an intersection ahead. If you never saw a car in Continue ReadingUnderstanding Art is Difficult: A Picture is Not Worth a Thousand Words
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions…” David Hume, A Treatise on Human Nature Emotions first, cognition second is the best way to perceive art, Continue ReadingWhy I Hate Most Art Criticism: Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testament and Music
Can art be experienced again as revolutionary? Can we travel back in time to see art as it was initially experienced? Two experiences, one accidental, one deliberate, suggest it can. Continue ReadingAn Artistic Experiment in Time Travel
Can technology preserve artworks without changing them? Rothko painted five murals in 1962 for a room on the 10th floor of Harvard’s Holyoke Center. Sunlight and the chemically unstable paints Continue ReadingThe Digitization of Eternity: Humans Grow Old and Die, Should Not Art?
Works of art lie. Photographs of art deceive. Who has not seen a picture of the Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel? You see it as a majestic, inspired Continue ReadingThe Last Picture Show
Picasso stated that art is a lie, and artistic truth is getting people to understand the truths of those lies. More than the visual or musical arts, film illustrates this Continue ReadingWhat is Artistic Truth?
Listen to what moves you, and if it isn’t what you expect, rejoice in the surprise.” Susan Bell, The Artful Edit Not everyone is gifted with equal degrees of physical Continue ReadingUnderstanding Art