Author: lindamayoux
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Jenny Holzer
https://projects.jennyholzer.com Jenny Holzer (born July 29, 1950) is an American neo-conceptual artist, based in Hoosick Falls, New York. The main focus of her work is the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces. Holzer belongs to the feminist branch of a generation of artists that emerged around 1980, looking for new ways to make narrative…
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Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha works in a very open-ended way exploiting tension between images and text that often seem rather arbitrary in their juxtaposition, making the viewer make their own connections and interpretations. His approach is mainly aesthetic – interested in abstract potential of words against abstract design underlying his photographs and paintings. Some commentators on the…
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Zen Aesthetics and Art
Importance of Zen Aesthetics and Art for my Printmaking practice I have been interested in Zen meditation – its focus on awareness of the here and now and the possibilities of choice – since being a teenager. In relation to art this awareness of the moment develops an ability to observe, then capture in a few flowing…
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Lawrence Weiner
http://www.artnet.com/artists/lawrence-weiner/ https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/lawrence-weiner https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/lawrence-weiner-7743 https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/lawrence-weiner
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Richard Littler
Scarfolk is a fictional northern English town created by writer and designer Richard Littler, who is sometimes identified as the town mayor. First published as a blog of fake historical documents, parodying British public information posters of the 1970s, a collected book was published in 2014. https://scarfolk.blogspot.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1t7KxXy44QC5qC1R0h53Mg Littler has said “I was always scared as a kid,…
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David Carson
David Carson (born September 8, 1954) is an American graphic designer, art director and surfer. He is best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography. He worked as a sociology teacher and professional surfer in the late 1970s. From 1982 to 1987, Carson worked as a teacher in Torrey Pines High School in…
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Illustrator Text Effects
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=RDQM9Yzu-cOxN1k
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Photoshop Art Effects
Photographic creativity: colour, sharpness/focus, abstraction – NikFX and/or Lightroom and/or Camera RawArt brushes and filters – Photoshop/Corel Painter/ iPadMasking and compositing – Photoshop Monochrome Processes Photographic platesfor printmaking Screen printing/lithography duotone positives solarplate??? To prepare photographic positives for photoscreen and photolithography all digital images or photographs need to be converted to greyscale and printed in…
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James Victore
https://www.jamesvictore.com In 2005 the director David Hillman Curtis started making a series of shortfilms recording artists, designers, illustrators, and architects talking about their ideas andprocess. One of these films featured the poster designer James Victore. Hillman said: 1I chose to film James because of his posters. I didn’t know him or much about him atthe…
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Japanese Colour Theories
The traditional colours of Japan are a collection of colours traditionally used in Japanese art, literature, textiles such as kimono, and other Japanese arts and crafts. Standardisation of the Japanese colour wheel was conducted around 600AD and western recognition of it was as late as the mid-19th century, because Japan was largely secluded from the rest of the globe until that time. …