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
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...

Michael Brady
Mar 25, 2018