Image: A sketch by Pablo Picasso
HOW ARTISTS FIND INSPIRATION?
"Inpiration exists, but it needs to find you working." - said Pablo Picasso. Sources of inspiration for a creation can be vast, diverse. Inspiration brings the idea home when a…
Image Credits: 'Maya II' - A creation from Sparsha by Radhika
INTERPRETATION AND OBSERVATION IN ART
As Creators, what we create and how largely stem from our ideas and interpretations of life. What we observe and how we interpret the seen (as well as the unseen)…
Image Credits: 'Entangled" - A creation from Sparsha by Radhika
WHY ARTISTIC SENSIBILITY IS IMPORTANT?
The Invisible Spirals -- Sensibility to a Creator is like oxygen to a human being. Yes! The urge to verify the ideas of presentation often lead to ruined inhibition and…
Image: ‘White Center’ created by Mark Rothko in 1950
ART AND COLOUR
A Splash of Colour - Abstract Expressionism began in the United States in the 1940s. This movement was characterised by gestural brush strokes, mark making and intrinsically spontaneous creative journeys.…
Image: ‘Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte’ created by Georges Seurat from 1884 to 1886
ART AND THE DOT
Point - to - Point -- Neo-Impressionism began in Paris in the late 1880s. Propounded by French painter Georges Seurat, painters in the movement included Paul Signac and Henry-Edmond Cross.…
Image: ‘Woman with a Hat’ (Femme au chapeau) created by Henri Matisse in 1905
ART AND FICTION
The fictitious in the fictional - Fauvism began in France in the late 1900s. French painters Henri Matisse and Andre Derain led the movement. Other painters in the movement included…
Image: The Moss wall created by Olafur Eliasson in 1994. PC: Simon Ingram / National Geographic
MEDIUM TO MEDIUM IN THE ABSTRACT ART WORLD
Medium is a means for Creation. The Moss Wall (featured above) uses moss as a medium to engage viewers on multiple levels. To begin with, it engulfs the viewer with…
Image Credits: Wix
THE ‘CREATIVE’ BLANK TO FILL
Are creative process and creative outcome different? What happens when we see the creative process as the outcome or the outcome as the process itself? As Creators, what we make…
Image Credits: https://www.ideelart.com/magazine/mark-rothko-orange-and-yellow
HOW ART HIDES AND REVEALS
The world is beautiful but not sayable.” – Charles Simie Art conveys what words cannot explain. The beauty in art is its unverbal as well as verbal nature. What we…
Image Credits: 'Precious Ethnicity' - A creation from Sparsha by Radhika
WHY ORIGINALITY IN ART MATTERS
“You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.” – Ben Mikaelsen “Art is either revolution or plagiarism.” – Paul Gauguin What copying means to an artist can be variant…