by João Silva | Sep 30, 2022 | Articles, Theory, Visual Arts
1. Relevance and Saturated Phenomena The world is complex. From a simple raindrop to the complicated order of a city, whether we scale up or down, we find an infinite amount of complexity. Every object we perceive hides in itself infinite details and, if one closes in...
by Ari Fisher | Mar 13, 2021 | Architecture, Articles, Current Events, Language, Theory, Visual Arts
INTRODUCTION Before jumping into the meat of this article it will be necessary to clarify the subject matter a little. When I will refer to ‘graffiti’ throughout, I will mostly not be intending to include ‘street art’ within that definition, though I will take a...
by Timothy Aspeslagh | Feb 12, 2021 | Articles, Visual Arts
During the last seven centuries, the history of painting has been marked by a series of liberations – some intentional, others accidental. As the art world, through these upheavals, became what is now called ‘fine art’, the world of traditional medieval art...
by Michael Dunn | Nov 10, 2020 | Architecture, Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions, Visual Arts
On a summer evening in July 1927, an artist went for a walk outside the city of Ypres, Belgium. By chance, he spoke to a passerby whose words inspired his best-known painting, a work that symbolically brought fact and meaning together.Will Longstaff, born in...
by Michael Dunn | Oct 12, 2020 | Articles, Bible, Folk Stories & Traditions, Visual Arts
Long ago, a boy grew up so beautiful that he met a terrible death, made worse because everyone said it was his own fault. The myth of Narcissus has come down to us as a cautionary tale about a singular youth in love with his reflection. Examined more closely, the...
by Michael Dunn | Sep 3, 2020 | Articles, Bible, Visual Arts
Saint Paul wrote that we could see and understand God’s eternal power and divine nature through the things he had made. Through painting, artists can help us uncover such things for ourselves. One example is a picture of the highest mountain in the Grampian ranges,...
