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The Power of Interpretation: Hillman Curtis
The videos that I chose to view for this weeks posting was of Mark Romanek’s career as a film maker and Espirito Santo: The Sean Kelly Gallery. Both artists discussed what it meant to be an artist and how to … Continue reading
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The relationship among art work
The relationship between the four schools of art: Realism, Expressionism, Formalism and Post-Modernism seem to be how individual perception is used to determine what art is. Another dominant topic in this reading is the intellectual struggle between traditional norms and … Continue reading
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Stich Bitch: A Patchwork of ideals
From what I can understand from Stitch Bitch is the idea that a whole image does not necessarily convey and understanding of the big picture. Sometimes an examination of the individual segments of a subject need to be examined in … Continue reading
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Helvetica: A Typeface for the future?
The Gary Hustwit film about Helvetica raised some interesting points on how typography is reflective of both social change and societal cohesion. It is important to keep in mind that type can be representative of both organizational uniformity and the … Continue reading
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Aesthetics of Transition
Thorburn and Jenkins present an interesting argument. The tendency of people to fear and marvel at change is an age-old sentiment. It was said of Guttenberg’s printing press, the type writer, the radio, and television and, of curse, the Internet. … Continue reading