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The retelling is the telling.
There exists the phenomena of information overload. We are assuredly in a period of imagery sur-saturation. Yet we have always filtered our surroundings to pay attention...
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Art versus Tech as GAN
Art and technology can be known as structural components in a social “Generative Adversarial Network” that offers positive evolutionary progress to society. Technology...
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Time swirls ...
Maybe we move forward through time, or possibly time flows over us, swirls around us or eddies behind us… maybe it’s any combination of those. Yet which ever, things chan...
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If light dissipates ...
Without art, can an audience assemble? © GAMcCullough 2017
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Signal and noise
"She leaned in to my collar and whispered. The pubs ambient hubbub intruded, so I focused closer to her murmuring." after M Knopfler The vinyl LP turned and turned...
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Cherished
J Oppenheimer posits that we have moved from Descartes ' I think, therefore I am' to a twitter-spective of 'I am heard, therefore I am'. Art remains for me closer to: '...
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Tools
The significant visual style of our times, isn't so much a given style, but the facility we have in shifting between styles. Watch any major sporting event, close ups, wi...
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Juxtaposition
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire" William Butler Yeats Art is not a fact, but a rightly posited juxtapositioning. It is only the...
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The hunting pack
Art as grounded in the hunting pack's ability to perceive time. J Edward Chamberlain suggests in his book Horse, that humankind is both herd and pack animal. We ma...
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Great art
Great art is where time rhymes. © GAMcCullough 2015
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Inherent essence
Painting as a subset of art, has always shifted as a medium. Yet to grasp the direction of this trajectory, one needs to distinguish the 'what' of painting versus the oth...
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Propensity of meaning
Everyone brings to the act of looking, a propensity for seeking meaning. The viewer tends to see what they already know, and the artist, risks only seeing what they can...
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Pre I-Drive era
Meditation on McLuhan's observation that as a technology is rendered 'obsolete' a nostalgia grows over its forms. Almost like a pearl. Yet probably it is just a yearning...
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Dialects
As much as style is expression, it still conforms to a language. And so reflects a hierarchy of established meanings. Painting remains more significant then any style use...
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Redux 1
The power of visual art stems in part from the fact that as a communication medium, it is closed, direct and a monologue. Unlike writing or speaking, socially we are less...
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