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Six theories about ART
Business, Culture, Power, Creativity, Genius, Skill.
Examples can be found that support all six theories.
Some art, and some artists, will…
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CAVE PAINTINGS IN LASCEAUX
Lascaux Cave Paintings. Lasceaux is in the Dordogne region in southwest France. In 1940 a teenager named Marcel…
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LEONARDO DA VINCI
Leonardo da Vinci is probably the world’s most famous artist.
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GROUNDS for ART STUFF
Grounds for art stuff is a term used about the surface artists choose to paint on.
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OILS, ACRYLICS, and WATERCOLOURS
Oils acrylics and water-colours are kinds of artists paint. An artist has a wide confusing choice of ways to…
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Japanese Ink Painting
The appeal of Japanese ink painting, known as suiboku ga or ‘pictures of ink and water’, is in the…
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SCOTTISH COLOURISTS
The term ‘Scottish Colourists’ refers to four painters, S. J. Peploe (1871—1935), J. D. Fergusson (1874—1961), G. L. Hunter…
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GULLEY JIMSON
In 1958 the book ‘The Horses Mouth’ was made into a film starring Alec Guinness. It was directed by…
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FRAMING YOUR ART PIECE
All in all it looks like a no-brainer. Artists should provide frames with their artwork….. I have simulated a…
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Colour theory. CMYK and RGB
Colour theory. As an artist I think about colour using an established colour model. The primary colours are Blue...