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Ian Yang

ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Artistic Creativity and the Brain -- Zeki 293 (5527): 51... - 6 views

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  • Visual art contributes to our understanding of the visual brain because it explores and reveals the brain's perceptual capabilities. As Paul Klee once wrote, "Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes things visible." But visual art also obeys the laws of the visual brain, and thus reveals these laws to us. Of these laws, two stand supreme.
  • The first is the law of constancy. By this I mean that the function of the visual brain is to seek knowledge of the constant and essential properties of objects and surfaces, when the information reaching it changes from moment to moment. The distance, the viewing point, and the illumination conditions change continually, yet the brain is able to discard these changes in categorizing an object.
  • The second supreme law is that of abstraction. By abstraction I mean the process in which the particular is subordinated to the general, so that what is represented is applicable to many particulars. This second law is intimately linked to the first, because abstraction is a critical step in the efficient acquisition of knowledge; without it, the brain would be enslaved to the particular. The capacity to abstract is also probably imposed on the brain by the limitations of its memory system, because it does away with the need to recall every detail. Art, too, abstracts and thus externalizes the inner workings of the brain. Its primordial function is thus a reflection of the function of the brain.
anonymous

16 Astonishingly Intricate Ballpoint Pen Art Creations | CreativeCloud - 8 views

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drawing blog collection inspiration

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  • anonymous on 30 Oct 09
     
    These pen drawings are amazing!
  • Ian Yang on 30 Oct 09
     
    Some works are quite astonishing, considering the realism those artists attempt to achieve.
  • anonymous on 30 Oct 09
     
    I know, to render tones and shades using a ball point pen takes a lot of work, think about it, you lay down one line at a time!
c newsom

Paul-Rand.com :: Thoughts on Design - 8 views

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paul rand paul-rand.com design graphic design essay aig graphic

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  • c newsom on 20 Dec 09
     
    Articles by Paul Rand on design from 1949 to 2008.
  • c newsom on 05 Jan 11
     
    The link has changed - it's now: http://www.paul-rand.com/site/thoughts/
Ian Yang

History of Art: Arnold Bocklin - 2 views

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aig Arnold Bocklin painting artist gallery

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  • Ian Yang on 13 Jul 09
     
    Some of Bocklin's greatest.
graphix luv

35 Creative Business Cards | Graphic Design Blog - 2 views

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creative business cards graphic designs graphics

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  • graphix luv on 27 Mar 09
     
    I bring you 35 examples of amazing business cards under different categories and present them in a little different way.
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  • Ian Yang on 27 Mar 09
     
    Speaking of business cards, here comes mine! :P
  • c newsom on 29 Mar 09
     
    That's a great collection. Bantjes' is genius like all of her work. Ian - I like the combination of light and dark in yours. It has a very contemporary feel, but I also see some influences like Art Nouveau at work in it. Do you like Art Nouveau?
  • Ian Yang on 29 Mar 09
     
    To cewsom: I do like Art Nouveau, especially the organic patterns. Glad that like this design (I put lots of thoughts in this, obviously), just like most of my customers. :P The combination of light and dark, including the colors, helps to create a certain mood. I hope it arouses some excitement without being excessive and over dispersive. Actually this design is based on my latest digital work, in which I tried to adopt and experiment some elements (colors, curves, etc.) I never used before.
Ian Yang

The Athenaeum - Displaying artworks for Franz Marc - 1 views

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Germany Expressionist Expressionism art Painting Franz Marc gallery artworks German

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  • Ian Yang on 27 Apr 09
     
    Tiger/ Franz Marc - 1912/ Painting - oil on canvas The Enchanted Mill/ Franz Marc - 1913/ Painting - oil on canvas
Ian Yang

visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks - 0 views

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aig art design visual visualization graphic computering network technology education resource

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  • Ian Yang on 05 Feb 09
     
    VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field.
  • Ian Yang on 05 Feb 09
     
    Some examples: Monitoring and Visualizing Last.fm Author(s): Christopher Adjei, Nils Holland-Cunz The Voice Author(s): Lisa Jevbratt 2008 City Railway System Author(s): Kim Ji-Hwan, Jin Sol
Ian Yang

Peter Doig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Peter Doig (born 1959) is a Scottish painter whose paintings are among Europe's most expensive.
  • Many of Doig's pictures are landscapes, with a number harking back to the snowy scenes of his childhood in Canada. His works are frequently based on found photographs (and sometimes on his own), but are not painted in a photorealist style, Doig instead using the photographs simply for reference. Peter Doig’s work captures moments of tranquillity, which contrast with uneasy oneiric elements. He uses unusual colour combinations and depicts scenes from unexpected angles, all contributing to give his work a magic realist feel.
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Karine Smith

struggle inc.® - 4 views

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porfolio art design

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  • Karine Smith on 24 Mar 10
     
    I love this guy's work...
Ann Darling

Thirteen/WNET: Power of Art - 4 views

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the_power_of_art pbs interactive resource

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  • Ann Darling on 16 Jun 10
     
    great art history program and interactives, lessonplans etc
Robert Tourdot

oil painting techniques: a free guide - 5 views

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Oil painting

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    Painting techniques
Al Tucker

"yeah thats not what I was looking for at all." - 8 views

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  • Al Tucker on 18 Apr 12
     
    This is a terrific bit of storytelling. I love the visuals in this story -just perfect. Read this - it's very funny!
Skeptical Debunker

Spectacular short film wins $100,000 LG FilmFest grand prize | DVICE - 3 views

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LG award film short video

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  • Skeptical Debunker on 23 Feb 10
     
    "LG does more than just manufacture gadgetry - it sponsored the "Life's Good" FilmFest, a filmmaking contest with the goal of showing off the company's HDTVs. This masterpiece, entitled Nuit Blanche (White Night) by director Arev Manoukian, won the contest's $100,000 grand prize, announced January 28, 2010. After you've savored this exquisite work of art, if you want to ruin the illusion by finding out how this surreal world was created, click through for a demonstration of the technology behind its making. Keep in mind, though - all the technology in the world is no substitute for talent."
c newsom

A Journey Round My Skull - 3 views

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  • c newsom on 16 Mar 10
     
    A more obscure selection of book covers, illustrations and graphic design surrounding literature.
ruben vh

Romanticism - 3 views

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  • second half of the 18th century in Western Europe
  • revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature
  • confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities, both new aesthetic categories
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  • escape the confines of population growth, urban sprawl and industrialism, and it also attempted to embrace the exotic, unfamiliar and distant
  • ideologies and events of the French Revolution laid the background
  • in the second half of the nineteenth century, "Realism"
  • Romanticism elevated the achievements of what it perceived as misunderstood heroic individuals and artists that altered society. It also legitimized the individual imagination as a critical authority which permitted freedom from classical notions of form in art
  • Despite this general usage of the term, a precise characterization and specific definition of Romanticism has been the subject of debate in the fields of intellectual history and literary history throughout the twentieth century, without any great measure of consensus emerging
  • t is the period of 1815 to 1848 which must be regarded as the true age of Romanticism in music - the age of the last compositions of Beethoven (d. 1827) and Schubert (d. 1828), of the works of Schumann (d. 1856) and Chopin (d.1849), of the early struggles of Berlioz and Richard Wagner, of the great virtuosi such as Paganini (d. 1840), and the young Liszt and Thalberg
  • At that time Germany was a multitude of small separate states, and Goethe's works would have a seminal influence in developing a unifying sense of nationalism
  • The poet and painter William Blake is the most extreme example of the Romantic sensibility in Britain, epitomised by his claim “I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.”
  • In predominantly Roman Catholic countries Romanticism was less pronounced than in Germany and Britain, and tended to develop later, after the rise of Napoleon. François-René de Chateaubriand is often called the "Father of French Romanticism". In France, the movement is associated with the nineteenth century, particularly in the paintings of Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix, the plays, poems and novels of Victor Hugo (such as "Les Misérables" and "Ninety-Three"), and the novels of Stendhal.
  • But by the 1880s, psychological and social realism was competing with romanticism in the novel.
  • One of Romanticism's key ideas and most enduring legacies is the assertion of nationalism, which became a central theme of Romantic art and political philosophy
  • ruben vh on 13 Aug 10
     
    very well developed description + analysis of the Romantic tradition
c newsom

Tate Britain| Past Exhibitions | Gothic Nightmares | Room 7 works - 3 views

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death dead skeletons mortality prints illustrations illuminations woodcut blake fuseli tate gothic

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    Revolution, Revelation and Apocalypse; a set of images from an archive of an exhibition at The Tate.  Some really nice Blake and Fuseli.
Scheiro Deligne

thypott art - 2 views

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arts peinture galerie

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  • Scheiro Deligne on 23 Dec 09
     
    We present a new kind of web gallery. Even if many could disagree, we intend to include only those artist or painting masterpieces that we consider to be the most original, revolutionary and famous in art history. We will put aside those that were only ephemeral pieces that reflected the taste or trend of a certain period. The purpose of this web page is education, and we hope to create an anthology of the evolution of the creation of beauty and crafmanship in the field of painting.
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