I Try My Hand at Digital Art
The other day I was reading about Vincent Van Gogh and how after moving to Paris he shifted from the muted color tones of the typical Dutch master painters to a more colorful ...
About: Mark
Website: http://www.forestrat.com
Bio: This is a blog about the things I like - fine art photography, art in general, poetry, and technology. Sometimes I'll post as myself and sometimes I'll use one of my alter egos, Rufus McGurk the art guy or Marko-san the haiku poetry guy.
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Ariadne’s Afternoon
The last painting on our blogseum tour of finding the story in art is Ariadne's Afternoon from 1982 by Richard Serra. Hmmmm, not much to go on here. Is there a story in ...
The Gathering of Manna (Il miracolo della manna)
As I promised in the opening post for this tour on finding the story in art, this is "The Gathering of Manna" painted by Ottavio Vannini in 1635.
But ...
Finding the Story in Art
My next few posts are going to be about looking at art works and finding the stories they tell. Some of the stories are easy to find and some take a little digging, ...
Why Bother?
"No one is interested in my art so why should I even bother doing it?" This thought has crossed my mind way more that once.
Geometric Photography
A while back I had the chance to photograph an old steel bridge that spanned the Erie canal. It had been declared unsafe for traffic and was blocked off for a couple years ...
Not to be Trusted
A few posts back we talked about the idea that some artists get stuck in a rut creating similar works over and over again throughout their career. And then there are the artists ...
Moses has horns. What’s up with that?
If you look closely at Moses in this image of a circa 1621 painting by Giovanni Lanfranco you can see that the painter has stuck a couple of horns on his head. What's ...
What’s wrong with this picture?
Have you ever tried swinging a big scythe like this one? It ain't easy believe me.
I grew up on a small farm that had a barn built by ...
The One I’m Going to Take Tomorrow
The interviewer had asked Cunningham what was her favorite photograph from her seventy-five year career - "the one I'm going to take tomorrow".
Can a Photograph be Abstract?
I was reading an article on the Art Blart blog about an exhibition at the Tate Modern titled "Shape of Light: 100 years of photography and abstract art". The idea of the show ...