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manufacturing nature through art
I don’t quite understand the idea of trompe l’oeil, the french phrase for fooling the eye. Other than the obvious: to prove you can make something so good it fools others into thinking art is reality, it seems to be more science than art. To be accomplished at it is to be technically skilled, and… (read more)
giving colour a chance
In 1951, the American artist Ellsworth Kelly purchased a pre-packaged set of coloured paper squares from a Paris shop (he already had Duchamp’s idea of ready-made art in mind). Then he drew a grid of squares, numbering in the hundreds, on paper. In each of these squares, he randomly assigned numbers between 1 and 18. … (read more)
we are an unnatural animal
Are the colours of modern society, un-natural? The argument made thoughout a recent exhibition at Tate Liverpool is that off-the-shelf colour (their term: ready-made colour) can’t be found in nature. Surely man invented the hyper-active, vibrant colours of such stuff as cars, signs and iPods. Wouldn’t their alien surface properties have to be natural because,… (read more)