We live in a fast-paced society that is ruled by mass media. Every day we are bombarded by images of perfect bodies, beautiful hair, flawless skin, and ageless faces that flash at us like a slide show. These ideas and images are embedded in our minds throughout our lives. Advertisements...
I wasn’t being an asshole by any stretch, digital painting was perfectly welcomed by the class. They had the computers set up for it, and they had the programs (this was back in the early 2000s, so Photoshop was not as snazzy as it is now) that would allow digital art. But my ...
Coming to us from the ageless wisdom, it not only instructs: it creatively inspires, and kindles the secret of health, vigour and love. The proper description of a Chakra is “vibration”. Without the primal vibratory wave or concentricity, no organ, no physical function can come into being...
She and he are absolutely opposing forces, yet they work together. He is not shouting now. Centred, quietly decisive, refined, he survives minute by minute, a cataclysm in his soul, which we struggle to protect with conscious spells. He is himself, an unborn child. I might lose the threa...
"To see the evolution of art through chronological time is a requirement of art historians and critics, but it has never been intrinsic to art," states Houshiary in Homi Bhabha's essay "Another Country" in the exhibition catalog."In Houshiary's view," writes Bhabha, "the transforming ...
it is one of the relatively few constants in people’s responses to his work over the past century and a half. As the excellent catalogue essay by Andre Dombrowski suggests, Duveneck’s style encourages us to appreciate the material qualities of oil paint—its odd mixture...
Stephen Zacks, author of the essay “The Theoretical Construction of African Cinema,” identifies the primary frameworks for thinking about African film as neo-Marxist, neo-structuralist, and modernist; and says that the tendency to define an African film tradition is confining, reducing, and often...