Jun
16
2005
Seeing is not the perception of reality, we are constantly interpreting and constructing a reality based on visual input. An anamorphosis is a deformed image that appears in its true shape when viewed in a particular unconventional way … the viewer must seek out the unconventional viewpoint from which the visual trick is resolved. In [...]
Tags: audience, visual perception
Jun
09
2005
Colombian artist Fernando Botero responded to his distress over the prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison by creating his latest series of paintings depicting the violence, inspired by written descriptions of the abuse rather than by the photographs. Referring to Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece Guernica, Botero said his intent is to emblazon the images [...]
Tags: artists, painting, world
May
29
2005
The Object Not Found website is basically a collection of found photos, notes and other ephemera, started in late 1997.
From Damien Frost, the creator … I seem to have this uncanny knack for finding discarded photos and notes and like a lot of other people, once i’ve picked up these things to examine in passing [...]
Tags: audience, found objects
Mar
30
2005
The images from Sculpture By The Sea at Cottesloe Beach look beautiful. And I missed it! Bringing art out of the gallery and into everyday spaces invites a whole new audience.
Tags: audience, exhibitions