January 2010
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“[A synopsis of the project “Vision+Beauty” on AFH Tumblr, using a...”
– VISION + BEAUTY: by Veronica
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Do Computers Understand Art? →
A team of researchers from the University of Girona and the Max Planck Institute in Germany has shown that some mathematical algorithms provide clues about the artistic style of a painting. The composition of colours or certain aesthetic measurements can already be quantified by a computer, but machines are still far from being able to interpret art in the way that people do.
December 2009
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““Having a vision [cultural perspective] is a powereful thing. Creating art is...”
– Shonto Begay (Navajo) [Google find @CoyoteToo]
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The Art of Vision, a Film by Stan Brakhage {by... →
Brakhage is the most “abstract” of the major experimental filmmakers. His films, particularly since Anticipation of the Night, have proved difficult to watch for many people. He has completely rejected continuity of space or time: that is, real spatial dimension does not exist in his films, and events do not follow each other with relation to any time sequence. There is no...
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EDUCATION AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LIFE CHAPTER 8:... →
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A true artist is beyond the vanity of the self and its ambitions. To have the power of brilliant expression, and yet be caught in worldly ways, makes for a life of contradiction and strife. Praise and adulation, when taken to heart, inflate the ego and destroy receptivity, and the worship of success in any field is obviously detrimental to intelligence.
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November 2009
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Modern painters, Volume 2 By John Ruskin →
Yet out of such sacrifice, gracefully made - such misfortune, gloriously sustained - all their true beauty is to arise. Yes, and from more than sacrifice - more than misfortune: from death. Yes, and more than death :-from the worst kind of death : not natural, coming to each in its due time ; but premature, oppressed, unnatural, misguided - or so it would seem…
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A Facebook Group →
“Aesthetics may be defined narrowly as the theory of beauty”
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The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of... →
…But it is precisely that which dealing with the art of the mid-sixties has made possible. For that was a period in which so much that had been felt part of the concept of art had fallen out of consideration entirely. Not merely beauty and mimesis, but almost everything that had figured in the life of art had been erased. The definition of art would have to be built on the ruins of what had...
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“Art and Citizenship
The third and final address of this session was by Prof....”
– The American magazine of art, Volume 8
By American Federation of Arts
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October 2009
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Great Blog with vision & optics section! →
Lines and Colors > with a great van Gogh quote in the Header:
I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing. -Vincent van Gogh
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Seeing Beauty in Our Shadows →
Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans,’ unpopular when first published, has shaped the way America looks at itself. By Luc Sante Robert Frank’s book of photographs “The Americans” was first published in the United States 50 years ago, in 1959. The pictures had been taken in the course of several trips by car across the country in 1955 and 1956. They show people—old and young,...
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Beauty, Art, and Darwin →
It is possible that we have a kind of built-in moral resistance to the runaway pathologies now visible in the arts. Where did that resistance come from?
By Roger Sandall, for The American [The Journal for the American ScumEnterprise Inst - MGT]
Judging from his new book Beauty, Roger Scruton’s idea of a nice view would probably be the Wiltshire countryside circa 1750, and a scene like that on...
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Beauty+Art →
A discussion in two parts
DAVID LANCE GOINES
Version of January 17, 1996
(Begin on February 1, 1991)
“Why Art? or, Solving the Big Head Problem” was published in abbreviated form in Communication Arts Magazine, January/February, 1996 (pages 24 - 29)
“Beauty” was published in abbreviated form in Communication Arts Magazine, March/April, 1996 (pages 28-33)
3/17/99
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“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,
And this same...”
– Robert Herrick (1591-1674), To the Virgins to Make Much of Time (32)
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The Semi-Divine, Exotic Vision of Beauty →
Nearly all art forms take delight in projecting women as an exotic vision of beauty. Down the ages, women have been the face of exquisite paintings and sculptures. Mughals in their miniature art form have continued with their quest for the beautiful.
In this miniature of subtle colours the artist has played up the sensuality and fullness of the woman’s body. The face in full profile and the...
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Vision of Beauty - Canvas Art →
The competition for local painters, especially emerging artists: sweatshop “canvas-art”…
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International Space Art Network →
[Tagline]: Welcome to a place of vision and beauty. Welcome to the world of space art.
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September 2009
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“Both the behavioral and brain data suggest that an aesthetic reaction to visual...”
– “This is your brain on art” (abstract, Journal of Vision)
Edward A. Vessel, G. Gabrielle Starr, Nava Rubin
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“The soul by a kind of delight and intense concentration on the vision and by the...”
– Plotinus
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