Jamie Banks
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Jamie Banks
The houses and churches were painted with such glittering colors that he thought he was inside a picture when he entered them.
Art In Context • Wassily Kandinsky - A Portrait of Kandinsky the Artist
He would subsequently reflect on this encounter: “The brochure advised me that it was a haystack. I had no idea what that was. This non-recognition was excruciatingly distressing for me. The painter, in my opinion, had no right to depict incoherently. I had a distinct impression that the painting’s subject was absent. And I was surprised and
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Conversations with Contributors: Justin Wymer - The Adroit Journal
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Visual Art and
While it’s probably one of the corniest things I’ll ever write in this column, I’ve come to believe that developing taste is not so unlike going to therapy; it’s an inefficient, time-consuming process that mostly entails looking inward and identifying whatever already moves you. It’s the product of devouring ideas, images and pieces of culture not... See more
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
Kandinsky the painter believed that the aim of art was to transmit the artist’s uniqueness and inner vision, which necessitated the elevation of objective reality.
Art In Context • Wassily Kandinsky - A Portrait of Kandinsky the Artist
But learning how to think with visual information (not just react to it) requires a different way of seeing, one that enables you to pause the instinctual labeling and stereotyping of the visual images you’re processing and see the individual elements in the image
Cliff Guren • Learning How to Un-See — Cliff Guren
I call this “satisfied tired”—the kind of tired I feel after a late night in my classroom prepping for the next time students come in, then meeting with parents, then glancing back at my classroom with my hand on the light switch as I walk out the door.