Michael Brady
Mar 25, 2018
The flaw of “idea” or “political” 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...
Michael Brady
Mar 25, 2018
On “Creativity”
Often we hear the expression “creativity and problem-solving ability.” What does this refer to? Initially, the term strikes us as pretty...
Michael Brady
Mar 25, 2018
Meditative sameness
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...
Michael Brady
Mar 25, 2018
Being Aware
Think of how we experience ourselves, that is, how we think we sound and appear to others, from "within" ourselves, from "inside" our...
Michael Brady
Mar 25, 2018
Making Strange
The Russian Formalists of the early 20th century proposed a theory of "making strange." By offering the viewer something that does not...
Michael Brady
Mar 25, 2018
Dichotomy of Appearances
I am intrigued with the dichotomy of appearances—the dichotomy of what is perceived and what is the substance. We are reminded that the...
Michael Brady
Mar 25, 2018
Art and Life
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...
Michael Brady
Mar 25, 2018
Art is Fiction
I believe that art is fictitious. Art re/presentations are provisional, entirely arbitrary (even those that seem to be entirely...
Michael Brady
Mar 25, 2018
Clarity and fuzziness
When you pay attention to things in motion or in flux, like spoken language, you'll observe that at any separate, discrete moment, the...
Michael Brady
Mar 25, 2018
Canons, guides, and rules
Perhaps it's like this aesthetics : canon : art :: rhetoric : grammar : language Both pictorial art and language are "free creative"...
