More On Color Harmonies and Contrasts

Nice combination, yes? A lovely harmony between the gold, white and beige and a soft contrast with the green. But if we look closely we see that there is also a harmony between the green and the beige and the green and the gold. There is a little bit of each in each. How about [...]

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How We Read the Language of Plants – Excerpt From an Upcoming Book

In a previous post on harmony and contrast I spoke of how we perceive,  ‘read’ and appreciate relationships by our faculty of emotional perception. Here I want to develop this concept a bit more, in regard to plants and how we ‘read’ them. Every plant is a unified creation with all its parts rising from [...]

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Relationships

I show this image elsewhere but it is easier to see in this post and this setting. Both the lamp and the Zen garden have been combined to create a pleasant little scene and they work well together. Of course it’s easy to see why these two items harmonize – the somewhat oriental look to [...]

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Art in Ads

Jackie was looking through the New Yorker this morning and said, “I don’t understand this ad. This person is leaning over, has thinning hair. And its a woman. I don’t get it. It’s for a securities company.”  I looked at the magazine for a couple of seconds and said, “she’s smart, slightly artsy, successful, reliable, [...]

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Consider the Daffodil

This article begins begins here, and continues on with the following: So, emotions are an intelligence which perceives relationships and which perceptions give rise to feelings, which feelings motivate us to some action or leave us in some state. What does this have to do with art? Everything, as it happens. I was slightly injured [...]

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The Mind of the Artist

There has long been a raging debate, are there different levels of art? Is there high art and low art? Is this art? Is that? What is art? There are, in fact, not only many levels but several (and only several) kinds of art. The reasons for this and how it works is the subject [...]

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