September 22, 2008
Welcome to Issue number 8 of
Art Exposed
the online magazine by, for and about the artists of NakedGenius. |
This week’s editor: Stacy Lee; Managing Editor: DLKeur; Publisher: NakedGenius.com |
| Editorial |
Our articles this
week are: |
| When does an artist succeed? Is it after the vision is completed and put down on the blank canvas? Or does it end there? Maybe it’s after the viewer takes the vision and makes it his or her own. Perhaps it’s when the viewer connects with the vision so much that she or he has to purchase the art. Or maybe it’s just when someone gets lost in the art and finds him or herself in a new world: a place unseen before or unrehearsed.
Some say that artists like Van Gogh are successful. But made him successful? The fact that many buy and admire his work today even though he did not see that kind of joy in his own lifetime? Maybe he was just successful in doing what he loved to do. Or maybe he was just successful by having others view his work. Perhaps he was not successful at all considering he did not have the pleasure of knowing how many people adore and love his work after his death…
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More about aeiou : from the prelude as featured in the widgets make the work from issue 6. Produced in response to the theme Random and Considered while using the book From The Prelude : Selections from Wordsworth’s poem : Edited by H. S. Taylor as a starting point, this work analyses a short section of text from the book using a simple five bit binary reflective Gray code and the position of the vowels within each line of the chosen text.MORE…
I can’t remember exactly what it was that put crop circles in my head. Probably something I watched on the History Channel or Discovery. I do remember that I wanted to do something that looked like a crop circle and I wanted it to be as complex as I could make it. Gradients is the result of that idea. I like to describe it as crop circles on steroids. MORE…
Everyone once in a while an artist is faced with a challenge: “Can you create my dream?” or “Can you create this vision I had?”. The challenge begins when the blank canvas is set up and all materials are ready to go. But then something happens. The vision or dream becomes the artist’s own. She or he starts to own the dream or take on the vision for her or himself. This is the beauty of postmodernism. MORE…
