art history

What if attention influenced art styles in the way impressionism did. Instead of rendering things based on the light and color of a specific moment, you can render objects based on your relative attention to them. Different objects can be in/out of focus, saturation, detail.

Watching the Black Eyed Pease perform at Ultra in Miami in 2009 was a low point in my life (around the same time I dropped my finance major and reconsidered my life and forged who I am today). Wil.I.Am is like a modern Heironymous Bosch painting, a warning of what hell is like.

In producing my “bonus thread” for my assay definition, I came across so much fascinating alchemical artwork. Need to dive deeper into that. It helped refine my intrigue to visit Prague. 3 places AI recommended:

• The Speculum Alchemiae Museum: This museum is dedicated to the history of alchemy and features various exhibits, including artwork, labora

Standout paintings from 90 minutes at the MET:

• The Conversion of St. Paul (1456)

• The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence (1465)

• The Transformation of the Holy House of Loreto (1490)

• The Adoration of the Christ Child (1515)

• Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underword (1630s)

• Pilate Washing His Hands (1663)

• Capriccio with St. Paul's and Old London Bridge (1745)

• Al

capriccio (n.) : a free-form work of art that comes from the imagination and defies formal conventions. Rules are bent for the sake of expression. It comes from a non-rational spirit of urgency and frenzy. In music, it could refer to experimental pieces that break key or time. In painting, it refers to “fantasy scapes” where ruins, landscapes, and

A Sculpture Gallery in Rome at the Time of Augustus, 1867…

This painting is a painting of time travel. Made in 1867, it depicts an Ancient Roman sculpture gallery during the time of Augustus; the weird thing to me is how the central statue-the Roman God, Vulcan-seems so three-dimensional. He's made of bronze, but his lighting is hyper-realistic, an