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Art: I know It When I See It
Last year, Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ reignited the old “What is art?” discussion. Serrano shocked the art world in 1987 with a photograph of a crucifix submerged in a jar of his urine. He again sparked controversy in September 2012 when Piss Christ was featured at the Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery in New York. The photograph not only shocked the religious communities who were offended by the desecration of a holy symbol, Serrano’s work also forced even the most open-minded to ask, “Is this art?” A quick Google search of the definition of art yields this: “The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual…
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Mastering Monochrome
The saying goes that “it” (the world/life/politics/beliefs/love and so on and so forth) is not black and white. But what if it was? Surely life would be a lot easier. Rules and expectations would be clear-cut and to the point. If the choice of colour was not an option, all decisions would be a lot easier, right? If we look at old films, photographs, TV, and documentaries which were shot in black and white, we hark back to what appears to be a graceful and elegant world. Simple, classy, well-organised and put together: even the music that accompanies the films/TV shows/documentaries evokes a simpler and more innocent time. I know…
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Picasso para niños
¿Quién no ha dicho, u oído, alguna vez eso de que las obras de arte contemporáneas las puede hacer hasta un niño de tres años? Algo parecido es lo que sucedió en la primera exposición internacional de arte moderno que tuvo lugar en EE.UU. en 1913. Conocida hoy en día como The Armory Show, ya que el primer lugar donde fue expuesta era una armería de Nueva York, esta exposición viajó por tres ciudades estadounidenses, la mencionada Nueva York, Chicago y Boston, presentando el nuevo lenguaje visual europeo al público norteamericano. La más recordada de estas exposiciones es la que tuvo lugar en el Instituto de Arte de Chicago, y…
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