About This Painting:Artist: Jan BlencoweTitle: Sound SunsetMedia: acrylicSize: 16 in X 8 in (40.6 cm X 20.3 cm)Price: $135 + $5 shippingHow to Purchase:send me an emailToday I redeemed (finally!) my mother's day present, a gift certificate to the spa. I spent time in the relaxation room, had a hot stone massage, aroma therapy, spent more time in the relaxation room, took a long hot Swedish shower.
I was never very materialistic yet I still had a lot of stuff. I took a year off from my practice and sold items on Ebay. Going to auctions several times a week enabled me to become a younger whiter Fred...
I wanted to talk a little more about minimalism using the films I posted trailers to yesterday. What Time is it There?, on the surface, is a love story, except that the love story is more implied than shown, and it's really a film about people. About people searching for people and about people searching for themselves and a way to feel something new, or something at all.Everyday we meet and cros
So lately I've been watching a lot of newer minimalist films which is a style/genre that I don't really know a lot about. I mean, of course I've seen The Bicycle Thief, but much more than that was over my head. A few years ago I saw a film called What Time is it There?, a Taiwanese film directed by a man named Tsai Ming-liang. I had seen the trailer for a few weeks leading up to the opening of the
Minimalism and a sexy edge are designer Francisco Costa's signatures, and his new resort collection, did not exclude them. Inspired by reptiles and pythons, Costa showcased chic, takeaway clothes...
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Why do I always strive for layering and complexity in my art? Well, I like it! But this is also a common theme in the altered art world. What happens if I try to go minimal but stay mixed-media? What do I need to do to keep the work both effective and mine?This is my first attempt. I glued a torn piece of paper to an 8"x10" of watercolor paper and then extended and distorted the patterns with Pitt Artist Pens, essentially colored India Ink. It's interesting, but I think I can do better.The dirty little secret here is that the other driver for going more minimalist was the need to have a completed piece every month to display as part of an online art group that I'm in and want to stay in. That deadline combined with the layered and st
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Minimalism is a 20th century art movement and style that stresses the idea of reducing a work down to the minimum number of colors, values, shapes, lines, and textures. The topic is highly subjective (as most topics of art are), and open to interpretations. Minimalism can generally be summed up by the phrase “Less is more”, and some of the best examples of minimalism are nothing more than a stripe of paint on a canvas.
What prompted my to write about this topic? A fellow photography blogger, Antonio Marques, is hosting a “Minimalism in Photography” group project. I’m a fan of interesting projects, and I thought this topic would be a great opportunity to learn some new things and share my findings. I’m constantly on the lookout for new ways of challenging myself and improving my photography, and it turned out that this little experiment is shaping up to be more than just that. So here’s how I went about this pr
'm going to take a walk from minimalist architecture to minimalist art. Check out the photo here, it's minimalist. In real life it's minimalist architecture. As a photograph it's minimalist art (photography). I've cornered this building to show the upper floors of a building covered with a vertical-blind-like stucture that's built to cover the glass underneath. This isn't just a decorative element. Here in Palm Springs, temps can rise to 120 degrees F in summer, so the design element here is functional in that it reduces the heat coming into the building. Now on to the art part. Look long enough at this picture and it starts to elude you optically. That, really, is the objective with this shot. At first it appears simple, even boring, but look at it long enough and you see it even after you turn away.Minimalism originated in the 50s and 60s and can--1. create an object of interest2. use repititive patterns3. be hard-edged4. delineate space5. lacks emotionMinimalist architecture
I'm going to take a walk from minimalist architecture to minimalist art. Check out the photo here, it's minimalist. In real life it's minimalist architecture. As a photograph it's minimalist art (photography). I've cornered this building to show the upper floors of a building covered with a vertical-blind-like stucture that's built to cover the glass underneath.
This isn't just a decorative
