Sol Lewitt created some pieces of conceptual art; it all reduced to the idea, and made hands-off installation kind of the fun part. Also, conservation: no problem. Here’s some of these pieces. You can kind of do the same thing with humor; pick out something commonplace, or already established, which isn’t necessarily funny. And then […]
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I often think of the act of creating great art as a balancing of universal and particular elements within a work. The artist must walk a tightrope, to borrow an idea from Juliette Aristides; his balancing act is between two extremes, but in order to keep his balance he must distribute his weight into both […]
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I found this to be an excellent meditation for the Triduum to look at William Adolphe Bouguereau’s works which follow the passion and resurrection of our Lord. Bouguereau is one of those French academics who was accused of making “bad art,” the world criticized him for embodying what was wrong with the outmoded French Academic Classical […]
Category: Art, Artist, Arts of the Beautiful, beauty, Catholics, french, Painting, Realism, William Bougeureau
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