In reviewing the exhibition catalog, Seen and Imagined: The World of Clifford Ross for Leonardo Reviews, I came upon Read More »
Is Technology Art? Clifford Ross’s Photography
Posts Tagged: Abstraction
Monet And Kelly? Artistic Influence Defies Science
Ellsworth Kelly, White Relief over White (2003)
What is this?
Two white, shaped-canvas panels joined and hanging on the wall – which one is the Read More »
At Home in Rome – Thomas Houseago’s Monumental Figures
Reclining Figure (For Rome,2013)
I’d like [visitors] to have a window into the studio and feel an ambition about what sculpture can be, feel the energy, both positively and negatively…these are the things I am trying to do without irony or anything hidden.
The British-born, Los Angeles-based sculptor Thomas Houseago has just come Read More »
Monet’s Eyesight – And Our Blind Faith?
In his late seventies, and nearly blind with severe cataracts, was Monet ‘experimenting’, painting ‘modernist abstractions’? Many have long claimed just that from his late broad brushstrokes, lack of detail and highlights, and dark, muddy colors. Others see a darkened vision of advancing age, which is true; except it was quite real, not entirely psychological. Read More »
Of Chimp & Child – And Aesop’s Fable
How smart is your four-year-old? Not as smart as a chimp, or maybe even Aesop’s rook. Watch these videos in the BBC News report Spitting and Urinating Chimps ‘Replay Aesop’s Fable. Read More »
Say, That’s A Wise Computer – DIKW
Please, report any sightings!
DIKW, the data to wisdom gradient, is buzzing about a lot these days amongst information scientists, who seem to me almost all computer specialists, ok, techies. (See recent review by Min Chen et al .) Read More »