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...