By Siva Wright The essence of an art is its originality. This originality maybe attained by techniques discovered and used before, but the end product, though influenced by its predecessors, should not be an imitation. If the product stopped being original, that is if there is a lack of innovation and mere imitation replaces influence,... Continue Reading →
Dallas’ Blind Muralist
John Bramblitt John Bramblitt is a talented artist from Denton Texas. In fact its no less to say he is one of a kind. His art has been sold in over one hundred and twenty countries and he has appeared internationally in print, TV and radio, like CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, ABC, NBC,... Continue Reading →
High and Low Art
This is connected to my previous post High Art and Low Art. Hope you will find this article informative. Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam Michelangelo's Pieta Van Gogh’s Starry Night The Waste Land, Eliot Charlie Chaplin It is no secret that there is a concept that some art forms are “higher” than others. Whether in... Continue Reading →
High Art and Low Art
Are you aware that there is a concept that some art forms are “higher” than others? Yep and they are called as High art and Low art. If you do know so do you know which is which? What is high art? What is low art? I learned that the concept of high and low... Continue Reading →
Anything is possible. It only takes…. courage
Outsider art was a term coined in 1972 by British art historian Roger Cardinal. It was a roughly equivalent but more inclusive coinage for art brut (raw art), a 1940s label by Jean Dubuffet for work by inmates of insane asylums, which the French artist described as “unscathed by artistic culture … and the conventions of classical... Continue Reading →
Sketch with me in Spain in 2020 — The Sketchbook
I haven’t yet finished scanning my sketches from September’s travel sketching workshop in Italy with French Escapade, but I’m already looking forward to teaching with them again in Spain in June of 2020. And this time, it’s in a region of Spain that I’ve already visited (and loved), which makes it even more exciting. A […]Sketch... Continue Reading →