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
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
Canons, guides, and rules
Perhaps it's like this aesthetics : canon : art :: rhetoric : grammar : language Both pictorial art and language are "free creative"...
Michael Brady
Mar 25, 2018
Art moralizes Nature; Nature demoralizes Art
There is no harmony, no discord, no visual balance, no fugual order, no split complementaries in Nature. There is just what is there. The...
