MICHAEL BRADY ART

The unavoidable trap of ”idea” art is several-fold: once the idea is conveyed and grasped, the actual work of art is left pretty much...

Often we hear the expression “creativity and problem-solving ability.” What does this refer to? Initially, the term strikes us as pretty...

I have found that re-viewing a work several—many—times takes on the feeling of meditation, as in the Mass when I would read the same old...

Think of how we experience ourselves, that is, how we think we sound and appear to others, from "within" ourselves, from "inside" our...

The Russian Formalists of the early 20th century proposed a theory of "making strange." By offering the viewer something that does not...

I am intrigued with the dichotomy of appearances—the dichotomy of what is perceived and what is the substance. We are reminded that the...

One characteristic of art compared to "life" or "out there" is that a work of art has an end, a limit, a termination. Not so, life. Works...

I believe that art is fictitious. Art re/presentations are provisional, entirely arbitrary (even those that seem to be entirely...

When you pay attention to things in motion or in flux, like spoken language, you'll observe that at any separate, discrete moment, the...

Perhaps it's like this aesthetics : canon : art :: rhetoric : grammar : language Both pictorial art and language are "free creative"...