Art advise and techniques

Learning How to Un-See — Cliff Guren

Train Your Eyes to See Values

1. Conceptual Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

2. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements.

3. Illogical judgements lead to new experience.

4. Formal Art is essentially rational.

5. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically.

6. If the artist changes his mind midw... See more

Sol LeWitt • Sentences on Conceptual Art (1969) - Tetragrammaton

Each of the principles appears quite clear when it is considered individually, but each picture we see uses a combination of principles, which makes the interactions of the parts and the overall effect more complex.

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We notice contrasts, or, put another way, contrast enables us to see.

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The center of the page is the most effective “center of attention.” It is the point of greatest attraction.

Molly Bang • Picture This

We see shapes in context, and our reactions to them depend in large part on that context.

Molly Bang • Picture This

I cleared almost all the pieces away again, and tilted some tree trunks. Now the heroine is no longer in a forest of vertical, reliable trees, but in a woods where trees might fall on her at any time.

Molly Bang • Picture This

In an asymmetrical frame, diagonals give a sense of depth.