Interior Designers on Choosing Wall Art
12 Interior Designers Help You Choose Wall Art Interior designers who want to integrate art prints and paintings into their designs more thoughtfully may find the following concepts and commentary from 12 other designers useful. Often artwork is the final piece of the p
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Eco Architecture and the Digital Landscape
The aesthetics of eco-architecture. The aesthetics of the most significant eco architecture draws upon the environment. The land. From curving balconies that undulate like shore lines to rainforest-evocative vertical gardens, architects and designers reference the shape
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Magical 3D Artistry From the 1300’s Casts a Spell in Spain
In Southern Spain, one of the great sights in Europe casts a mysterious spell on all who visit: the Alhambra. I visited this opulent Moorish palace in 2000, and its magic still resonates within me. Under a warm Andalusian sun, my wife and I made our way into the palace,
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Who’s Afraid of Digital? Not This Landscape Artist
Digital. Art. Print. How do these words relate? Isn’t a print a physical object, mutually exclusive to a bunch of pixels on a computer screen? And can a digital creation be a work of fine art? There seems to be a spectrum of uncertainty around the word digital, an
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Prairie Art Re-Imagined
“Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening shadows had at last merged into one and the faint after-glow of the red sunset filled the west.” Theodore
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Visual Tone Poems: Landscape Art Inspired by Classical Music
The color of music. Painting has color. So does classical music. All my adult life I have intensely enjoyed the many connections of tonal quality between the two art forms. Read on, and see if you feel the same. Both arts radiate tonal color, and certain styles of expre
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Hallucinatory Color in Landscape Art
The evolution of color in landscape art. Color in landscape art has evolved from naturalistic tones deriving from the earth itself, into a completely unrestrained range of expressive color. It came a long way to get to this point, and it has been one beautiful transform
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You Passed a Stunning Landscape Like This on the Highway
Rhythms of form, color and pattern… visible from our cars. I believe the rhythms of form and color and pattern visible from our cars is a truly modern subject matter in contemporary art. I often drive through farmland on the way to visit family in southern Ontario
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