Anti-HierarchiesAlthough all paintings have a hierarchy, sometimes multiple codes may be in place. Scale can mean either distance in perspective or social rank dependent upon the hierarc...Read the Full Post »
ApplauseAstrophysicists believe that as the farthest flung galaxies of the universe reveal their basic elements to us with a shift towards the red end of the colour spectrum, tha...Read the Full Post »
Off Stockdale RoadBrowsing in a local Antique store recently, I came across a Norval Morrisseau painting. Not knowing his complete works, I was left wondering by the background colour and...Read the Full Post »
Composition in fasteners 4I've often wondered how much of the artist is their creativity or simply being the first among the audience. © GAMcCullough 2014 Read the Full Post »
Immediacy & nostalgiaOften we hear that we live in an age of image overload. Where with a sur-abundance of pictures, with Instagrams and Google glasses and phone cameras, we are left awash in...Read the Full Post »
The lost prologuesOne of the most persistent and central themes of art, is the debate over the legitimacy of meaning. Art has repeatedly, put forth enquiries as to the boundaries of meanin...Read the Full Post »
Pre Google Drive AIThe fascinating aspect about our eyesight is that it actively filters our environments signals into the headlines that require our attention. Our retinas are optimized to...Read the Full Post »
The superior aesthetics of loiteringCreativity in my experience is placing yourself in the egoless zone of attending to the moment of when the muse of inpsiration feels safe enough ​to approach you....Read the Full Post »
PluralityWhereas Warhol may have been interested in multiplicity, I think our cultural norm has shifted from mass reproduction, towards a plurality of beings. A google translation...Read the Full Post »
Maybe art is like a kissSometimes soft, occasionally sudden, slow or possibly fast meaningful or vulgarized to habit Which is most significant? The first, the most recent, the next, the la...Read the Full Post »
Ground - FigureOur understanding of things change. Back in the 12th century the day was divided into two parts, day and night. Each part was divided into 12 hours each. Those hours a...Read the Full Post »
Style and subject matterStyle and subject matter Just north of a small retirement leisure port, i stopped into a bric-a-brac shop- nick knacks, but of the primitive sort. It was bewildering and...Read the Full Post »
Art, beauty, theory and piorities"When the flush of a new-born sun fell first upon Eden's green and gold; Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould; And the first rude...Read the Full Post »
Multiplicity, meanings and intentionI am still intrigued by how a painting, a static image, can have multiple views: Most painting themes are interpreted in multiple ways by different viewers. The twi-sig...Read the Full Post »
Shamans light' "Action" today is starved of art. That is why there are so many "artists" and so little good art at all.' Scrutinies II, London 1931, Pages 154-55 Every society see...Read the Full Post »
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