Art is difference, innovation and aesthetics. Alain Briot 1 - Introduction This is the first essay in a new series focused on turning photographs into art. My previous series focused on collecting art. This new series focuses on creating art from photographs. Not all those who collect create and not all those who create collect. However, there is a connection between the … [Read more...]
Collecting Art Part 4: Building a Collection
The collector is an artist in his own way, by the way he puts things together. You can read a person's soul from their collection. Ayers Tarantino 1-Introduction My art collection started by collecting my own art. The process was simple and unconscious. I created art, no one would buy it so I kept it. Being unable to throw away my own art it became, unwillingly, part … [Read more...]
Collecting Art Part 3: Visiting Galleries
To own a piece of work done by an Artist is to possess one of their facets, one of the windows of their life. David Dory 1 - Introduction The first thing I did in 1994 after deciding to sell my photographs was to look for a gallery that was willing to carry my work. In the town I lived in at the time, Houghton-Hancock in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the choice was … [Read more...]
Collecting Art Part 2: Visiting Museums
Serious collectors that I know are focused on the art. They are not looking for a decorative item, or a good investment. There is some aspect of the work itself that has hooked them. Eleanor Blair 1 - Introduction The first original Dali painting I saw was Seven Apparitions of Lenin on a Piano at the Beaubourg Museum in Paris as it was then called. My Beaux Arts student … [Read more...]
Printing With ImagePrint 10
1. Introduction I rarely write about software or even hardware for that matter. However, I do so occasionally when something I value is worthy of mentioning, especially if it is overlooked for one reason or another. Such is the case with ImagePrint, the subject of this essay. 2. What is ImagePrint? ImagePrint is a RIP, a Raster Image Processing program. The sole function … [Read more...]
