Content tagged with “art”
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“This is a fun book that celebrates the packaging and advertising art of the early Atari video games of the 80s. And this is important, because – let’s face it – those games sucked . The graphics were horrible and abstract, and what you were seeing on the screen had very little relation to…the…”
“ It’s literally French for ‘workshop,’ which comes from another word meaning ‘woodpile,’ meaning a carpenter’s workspace. ”
“I did find some references to ‘aubergine purple,’ which is more specifically the color. If you do an image search for ‘ aubergine purple ’ you get all sorts of shades, even drifting into brown. I also found Pantone 229, which someone claimed was ‘aubergine.’ That’s the color swatch embedded at…”
“This is a sculpture style where the art is mostly two-dimensional (meaning, it could be hung on a wall), but the foreground is raised slightly from the background. The design is carved into a substance. ‘Relief’ originally meant ‘raised,’ and ‘bas’ means ‘low’ in French, so the art is literally…”
“This is a term from the arts which means creating a mixed media work out of whatever materials you can find. However, it’s been expanded to mean assembling something – anything – together from disparate parts. It’s borrowed from the French bricoler which means ‘to tinker’ or ‘to putter’ and…”
“ Apparently it comes from the same root as ‘broccoli.’ ”
“These are a series of museums – existing, closed, or planned – which were funded by the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation. Guggenheim was a wealthy patron of the arts whose family made its fortune in mining and gold exploration. He died in 1949. Guggenheim created the foundation that bears his name in…”
“ This was a Dutch painter from the 1400s and 1500s. He was famous for several triptych works which depicted scenes of heaven and hell. ”
“I have no idea why I bought this – I think I just wanted to know how writing about art would be different than anything else. And it was quite good. It very much becomes a general book about writing, especially later in the book, but the early sections have a lot of examples about art writing and…”
“This a classic art coffee table book. It’s huge – 11 x 14, I think, and it weighs maybe 10 pounds? It’s the kind of book you set on your coffee table just to look at. (True story: when I first picked it up at a used bookstore in Minneapolis, I aggravated a back injury, forcing me to withdraw from…”
“I’ve become a little obsessed with the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum heist lately, after listening to the ‘Last Seen ‘podcast. This book is by the definitive reporter to cover the crime – he’s been reporting on it, on and off, for 25 years. Sadly, the book is scattered. It’s not a…”
“Curiously, it’s not object (with a ‘c’), it’s objet . It’s French for ‘object or art’ or ‘art object’ or ‘work of art.’ The Wikipedia page notes: The term is somewhat flexible, and is often used as a broad term for ‘everything else’ after major categories have been dealt with. The key is ‘object.’…”
“It’s literally French for ‘work.’ So, to discuss ‘Picasso’s oeuvre’ is to simply discuss Picasso’s work. It’s pronounced differently in English and French, and, honestly, I got a lot of different opinions on it. The two most popular: One syllable, rhymes with ‘swerve’ (take away the ‘sw’) Two…”
“This is a description or name applied to any painting from an known painter in Europe before ‘about 1800,’ according to Wikipedia . Merriam-Webster says: a work of art by an established master and especially by any of the distinguished painters of the 16th, 17th, or early 18th century But what’s an…”
“This is more of an essay, than a book. It’s quite short. It reads a bit stream-of-consciousness, with no chapter headings. Each chapter seems to have a cultural theme, but I’d be lying if I told you they were perfectly clear. The author – Dan Fox, editor of a literary and art magazine – seems to be…”
“I absolutely loved this book. It explains the world of contemporary art – who buys it, how it sells, and why it becomes valuable. Lots of books seek to explain things like this, but they think they can do it through anecdotes and vignettes. The books spend each chapter focused on a person. They…”
“This book tries to answer the question: will AI ever be able to emulate human creativity? It never really answers the question, but it’s still very, very interesting. Each chapter covers a different type of creativity: writing, music, art, etc. It’s full of examples and anecdotes about the advances…”
“This is an odd book. John McPhee is a journalist. I read his book – Draft No. 4 – about writing (I didn’t love it). This is essentially an expansion of a long article McPhee did for The New Yorker . It tells the story of Norton Dodge , who was an economist and professor. He wrote his thesis in the…”
