Wherein color harmony is a function (f) of the interaction between color/s (Col 1, 2, 3, …, n) and the factors that influence positive aesthetic response to color: individual differences (ID) such as age, gender, personality and affective state; cultural experiences (CE), the prevailing context (CX) which includes setting and ambient lighting; intervening perceptual effects (P) and the effects of time (T) in terms of prevailing social trends
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Plants and pink via @westelm
tonal
I’m so attracted to interiors that are lived in. Put together with what seems to be time and events of life.
Gold+White
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Alison Causer
Color Study Yellow, 2013
Acrylic on canvas, 24” x 30”
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EnsoCircle of Infinity, Circle of Simplicity, Circle of Beginnings, Circle of Endings. Emptiness with Fullness. All things visible, All things unseen.
This is Solitary Temple Amid Clearing Peaks, one of the greatest paintings in the history of Chinese art. It is one of only two paintings still extant that scholars believe are by Song Dynasty master Li Cheng (919-967), who is generally considered to be the most significant Chinese landscape painter. See it in greater detail via the Google Art Project.
The four-feet-by-two-feet scroll painting is in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, which has the world’s greatest collection of early Chinese painting in the world. Many of the Nelson-Atkins’s best Chinese landscapes are on view through April 28 in “Journey Through Mountains and Rivers: Chinese Landscapes Ancient and Modern.” These Song and Yuan Dynasty works are extremely fragile and the Nelson says that they won’t be on view again for ten years.
The second segment of this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Colin Mackenzie, the curator of Chinese art at the Nelson-Atkins. He tells us how the Nelson came to have such a remarkable collection of early Chinese landscape painting and about several of the treasures in his exhibition.
Listen to the program: Download this week’s show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud or RSS. See images of works discussed on the program.
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there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day
and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace
those who preach god, need god
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach peace do not have love
beware the preachers
beware the knowers
beware those who are always reading books
beware those who either detest poverty
or are proud of it
beware those quick to praise
for they need praise in return
beware those who are quick to censor
they are afraid of what they do not know
beware those who seek constant crowds for
they are nothing alone
beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average
but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world
not being able to love fully
they will believe your love incomplete
and then they will hate you
and their hatred will be perfect
like a shining diamond
like a knife
like a mountain
like a tiger
like hemlock
their finest art
Bukowski
“If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.”
― Edward Hopper”
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“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” — Salvador Dali
“I mean a new dress doesn’t get you anywhere its the life you’re living in the dress.” — Diana Vreeland